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Red Wings now lead 4-3; third period about to begin

By Helene Elliott
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CHICAGO -- The Red Wings cut the Blackhawks’ lead to 3-2 on Jiri Hudler’s goal 1:14 into the second period. Goalie Cristobal Huet was down when Hudler beat him, the Czech forward’s 14th goal this season.

The crowd seems quieter. Has the novelty worn off a bit, or have they just become numb from the cold? The flags above the wonderful, old, hand-operated scoreboard are blowing briskly toward left field, and the flags along each baseline are fluttering wildly too.

Maybe they knew what was going to happen to the Blackhawks in the second period. The Red Wings pulled even at 12:43 and surged ahead, 4-3, at 17:17 on a wonderful goal by Pavel Datsyuk. Going in on a one-on-two, he got past Blackhawks defenseman Brian Campbell and slid the puck between Huet’s leg pads.

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-- Helene Elliott

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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