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DETROIT (Ticker) -- As the Calgary Flames employed a suffocating defense, the Detroit Red Wings were left holding their breath.

The Flames used an aggressive forecheck, stonewall defense and steady goaltending to move within a win of the Western Conference finals, getting a goal from Craig Conroy en route to a 1-0 victory over the Red Wings .

Miikka Kiprusoff made 31 saves for the Flames, who took a three games to two lead in the best-of-seven series, which they can wrap up at home on Monday night.

"We've got so much confidence in him," Calgary Jarome Iginla said of his goaltender. "He made a big save on (Brett) Hull early in the first period off a one-timer. All game he made them, timely ones, but I guess when you save them all, they're all going to be timely."

Conroy scored the only goal with 3:53 left in the second period, shortly after Red Wings captain Steve Yzerman was hit in the face with a redirected slap shot.

Iginla had the puck in the right corner and backhanded it to Conroy, who beat Curtis Joseph to the short side from the bottom of the faceoff circle.

"I just tipped it down," Conroy said. "I just tried to get a quick shot off. I was so excited to see it go in."

Detroit, meanwhile, is holding its breath as it awaits word on Yzerman's status.

"He went to the hospital and they are going to X-ray him to take a look at his facial area where he got hit by the puck," Red Wings coach Dave Lewis said.

Kiprusoff stopped 15 shots in the third period and earned his second postseason shutout. Thanks in part to Calgary's defense-first style, he lowered his goals-against average to 1.17.

"Against Detroit, here, of course it's a great feeling," Kiprusoff said. "It tells us that we did a good job on our defense."

It was the first time the Red Wings were shut out in a playoff game at Joe Louis Arena since St. Louis' Grant Fuhr blanked them in Game One of the 1997 conference quarterfinals.

The Red Wings were 0-for-5 on the power play after ranking fourth in the NHL during the regular season.

"We generated chances, but the result was that we needed a goal and we never got one," Lewis said.

Detroit seemed a step slow, particularly in the first period.

"I thought we failed to set our own tempo. They didn't set it," defenseman Mathieu Dandenault said. "We had a horrendous first period, and when you have an opportunity like this, you come out strong and we didn't. We failed to get the puck in and we were pretty much in our own end the whole time."

The sixth-seeded Flames bounced back from a 4-2 home loss and are on the verge of a monumental upset. They are in the postseason for the first time since 1996. In that span, the top-seeded Red Wings have won three Stanley Cups.

"We've kind of been in this situation all year," Iginla said. "We've been playing a lot of big games. It's fun. Everybody in our room is enjoying this challenge and we realize the opportunity we have. And we want to keep winning."