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DETROIT (Ticker) -- Brendan Shanahan recorded his second hat trick of the season and Kris Draper scored twice to lift the Detroit Red Wings to a 6-3 triumph over the Nashville Predators. Shanahan tallied twice in the first period to give the Red Wings a 2-1 lead and added a power-play goal with 1:41 to play for his 15th career hat trick. "You take anything you can get," he said. "They're all the same." "He shoots the puck from all angles," Dunham said. "The first one went under my arm. The second hit my pad, hit the post, hit my stick and trickled in. The third, I don't know how it went in. He looked at me and shook his head. He didn't know how it went in either." Cliff Ronning scored a pair of goals in the third period to erase Detroit's two-goal lead. He knotted the score by skating around the Red Wings' defense and firing a shot from the top of the left faceoff circle over Hasek's glove. But just 18 seconds later, Kirk Maltby scored the eventual game-winner on a slap shot from the right circle. "You always like to get one back after a team scores on you so you can get the momentum back," Maltby said. "I just shot it from way out. It was a bit of a knuckler and it found a hole. It was a bit lucky, but I'll take them any way they come." Dominik Hasek finished with 29 saves for his 13th win of the season. He helped preserve the victory with six minutes to play when he stopped a shot by Vladimir Orszagh and two by defenseman Andy Delmore in a 24-second span. "We had a chance to beat Hasek and get a goal, but he's the quickest goalie ever," Ronning said. "His feet are the quickest I've ever seen. It's as simple as that." Nicklas Lidstrom set up Draper on a 2-on-1 in the slot with just over four minutes remaining in the third period as Detroit regained a two-goal lead. "I did the right thing," Draper said. "I gave the puck to Nick and he made a great pass back to me." Nashville took the early lead when defenseman Chris Chelios tried stop Stu Grimson's centering pass from behind the net. The puck tipped off Chelios' stick and bounced under Hasek's arm. Chelios atoned for his error just over 1 1/2 minutes later by sending a cross-ice pass to Shanahan, who snuck a shot under Dunham's arm. Just over seven minutes into the second period, David Legwand received a double minor for high-sticking Chelios in the face. Chelios left with a gash on the right side of his nose, but returned in the third period. Shanahan scored on the ensuing power play, putting Detroit up 2-1 with a slap shot from the left circle 40 seconds into the penalty. Draper scored his first of the night at 3:09 of the third period on a breakaway. He took a pass from Maltby at the blue line, shook off a hook by Delmore and slid the puck under Dunham's pads. "They got a couple of odd-man rushes and a couple power play goals," Dunham said. "They have so much talent that they can put it in the net when they get chances like that. They have a lot of offense and you have to be prepared because they can strike at any second." Ronning cut the lead to 3-2 by tapping a pass from Greg Johnson between Hasek's pads at 4:32 of the third period.
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