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Ryan Callahan scored for the fifth time in four days and defenseman Ryan McDonagh snapped a second-period tie to lift the New York Rangers to a 3-2 victory over the Washington Capitals on Sunday.
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Getty ImagesDallas didn’t even have a shot when the Red Wings got their first goal and they wasted their first six power plays. On one of them, they had a chance for a 5-on-3 advantage until Brad Winchester got called for boarding seconds after officials signaled for a delayed penalty.
Draper scored just 3:45 in, swatting at a rebound and seeing the puck squirt under Stars goalie Marty Turco. It didn’t seem like he got his stick on the puck, prompting a video review. What they didn’t see is that it went in off his face. That’s why he was in the dressing room getting treated for a fat lip when his goal became official, not because of a post-goal cross-check by Dallas’ Matt Niskanen that wasn’t called.
“It went off my chin, it went in, who cares?” Draper said, blood still caked in his beard.
Datsyuk made it 2-0 on a power play about eight minutes later, flicking the puck over a sprawled out Turco after a defenseman lost sight of it. Later in the period, Drake planted himself a few inches from Turco and banged in his own rebound. It grew to 4-0 only 3:11 into the second period when Zetterberg stole a pass at his blue line and charged right at Turco, faking to one side and beating him on the other.
“It really hurts to think of what we could have done,” Turco said. “It’s the ultimate disappointment of letting the guys down. It comes with the territory. You handle it and deal with it.”
Robidas scored 2:33 into the third period. Dallas showed some spunk after that, hitting hard and generating more scoring chances, but it was too little, too late.
Notes: The Red Wings and Penguins did not meet this season. They did the two previous years and Detroit won both. ... This will be the first Detroit-Pittsburgh finals. ... It also will be the first all-American finals since 2003, when New Jersey faced Anaheim. ... The team that scored first won every game this series. ... Detroit is the first Presidents’ Trophy winners to make the finals since its 2002 club did it.
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Ryan Callahan scored for the fifth time in four days and defenseman Ryan McDonagh snapped a second-period tie to lift the New York Rangers to a 3-2 victory over the Washington Capitals on Sunday.
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