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  Monday, Jan. 31 9:00pm ET
Numminen's winner halts Red Wings' streak
 
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PHOENIX (AP) -- If the Phoenix Coyotes needed reassurance that they're more explosive this season, they got it against Detroit.

The Coyotes scored four times in 23 shots against Chris Osgood, with Teppo Numminen netting the game-winner 9:08 into the third period, and beat the Red Wings 5-3 Monday night to extend their home winning streak to five games.

Sean Burke, Sergei Fedorov, Teppo Numminen
Coyotes goalie Sean Burke watches the puck as Teppo Numminen, center, keeps Detroit's Sergei Fedorov, right, away from the net.

"We had a good meeting yesterday morning on protecting leads in the third period," coach Bob Francis said. "I think we were losing a little bit of our aggressive frame of mind. Sometimes when the game is on the line you tend to make a play but then you think it's over once it's done."

The Coyotes hung on this time, feeling all the better because of a disallowed goal by Detroit with 4:20 to play.

Nicklas Lidstrom beat Sean Burke for the goal that appeared to tie it at 4, but Tomas Holmstrom was called for interfering with Burke.

The Red Wings got a power play out of the action, but weren't able to capitalize.

"I didn't touch him, so I think it's a bad call," Holmstrom said.

"It depends on whether you thought the goaltender was trying to get out to save the goal or not," Detroit associate head coach Barry Smith said. "And I'll tell you what -- after watching, he was not trying to get out."

Burke, who cross-checked Holmstrom twice from behind, disagreed.

"Once the puck went across to Lidstrom, I wasn't able to get out and challenge him," Burke said. "Their player backed into the crease, and nobody was really on him, and that was a good call. I mean, it's a call that's got to be made."

The Coyotes snapped Detroit's five-game unbeaten and four-game winning streaks and won the series for the second straight season with their third straight win this season over the Red Wings.

Mika Alatalo set up Numminen's goal when he outdueled Kris Draper for the puck along the right side, swept around the boards and reappeared on Osgood's right for a pass to Numminen in the opposite circle.

"That was huge," Greg Adams said. "It was a back-and-forth game. One team would score and the other would come right back, and it was a fun, exciting game."

Keith Tkachuk, Adams, Jeremy Roenick and Travis Green also scored for Phoenix, with Green tacking on an empty-net goal with 13 seconds remaining.

Tkachuk got his second assist on the play. Roenick, whose goal came on a power play, had one assist.

Kris Draper, Brendan Shanahan and Mathieu Dandenault scored for Detroit, and Kirk Maltby had two assists.

Burke made 28 saves to improve to 7-2-2 in his 11 his starts for Phoenix. Osgood faced 23 shots before he was pulled with a minute to play.

Only 44 seconds separated the first two goals of the game, and the next four were scored in a 1:33 span of the second period.

Tkachuk scored on a forehand over Osgood's right shoulder and into the top of the net with 5:58 left in the first period.

But Draper tied it 44 seconds later on a 10-foot wrist shot after a pass that Maltby threaded between two Phoenix defenders.

Shanahan got his 28th goal on a slap shot from the blue line 4:23 into the second period, and Adams tied it again on a rebound 26 seconds later.

Thirty-two seconds later -- 5:21 into the second -- Phoenix went on the power play, and Roenick converted at 5:28, slapping a shot past Osgood, who was screened by Tkachuk.

But the Red Wings gave Phoenix no time to enjoy the 3-2 lead. Dandenault blasted a one-timer from the slot past Burke at the 5:56 mark.

It was Burke's last lapse. He had 10 saves in the last half of the second period and stopped all nine Detroit shots in the third.

 


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 Teppo Numminen scores off the Mika Alatalo assist.
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 Travis Green scores the empty-netter.
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