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DETROIT (AP) -- Chris Osgood find a souvenir well worth keeping.
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The Red Wings goalie stopped only 14 shots, but it was good
enough for his 200th career victory as Detroit topped the expansion
Columbus Blue Jackets 4-1 Saturday night.
Osgood isn't much of a collector, but he made an exception and took a puck from the milestone win.
"It's good this early in my career," said Osgood, 27, who's in his eighth season with Detroit. "It's an achievement in my career and it gives me an opportunity to achieve better things than that."
Osgood usually isn't mentioned among the NHL's top goalies. But,
at 200-91-42, his .658 winning percentage is the best among active
players.
He trails only Hall of Famer Terry Sawchuk (352-244-130 with Detroit) on the Red Wings' victory list.
"He wins hockey games, that's all he does," said forward Darren McCarty, who scored Detroit's final goal. "He wins 30 games a year."
Osgood won his third straight after a 1-3 start and had much less work than his last game against the Blue Jackets. Last week, in a 2-1 overtime win at Columbus, he made 46 saves.
"It was a completely opposite game from Columbus," Osgood said. "It was a tough game because there wasn't a whole lot for me to do."
|  | | Pat Verbeek tries to ram the puck past Blue Jackets goalie Ron Tugnutt, whose 32 saves weren't enough. |
Brendan Shanahan had a goal and an assist and Nicklas Lidstrom
added two assists for the Red Wings, who also got goals from Kirk Maltby and Martin Lapointe.
Shanahan's goal late in the second period gave Detroit a 3-1 lead and more cushion than Osgood really needed.
"Up until that point, we thought we were fine," Columbus coach Dave King said. "That third goal was really a crusher."
Former Red Wings defenseman Jamie Pushor scored the lone goal
for the Blue Jackets, who seemed a little slow a night after
beating Washington for their first home win. Detroit pelted
Columbus goalie Ron Tugnutt with 36 shots.
"I think when you look at the game, up until the third goal,
it's a very interesting hockey game," King said. "But it was one
that we feel like we're not getting enough offense and we're
playing very well defensively."
Maltby, who scored the overtime winner last week at Columbus,
opened the scoring 4:16 into the first. He stole the puck from Kevin Dineen at the Blue Jackets' blue line, skated in and wristed a shot that tipped off Tugnutt's glove and trickled into the goal.
Just 1:33 later, Pushor's first goal in almost two years was
also his first point of the season as he was left alone between the
circles and lifted the puck over Osgood's glove.
Lapointe's team-high sixth goal gave Detroit a 2-1 lead on a power play at 9:20 as he jammed the rebound of Shanahan's shot through Tugnutt's legs.
Shanahan scored the only goal of the second period at 16:19, using a screen from Lapointe.
"As I was skating up I heard Marty yell, so I turned and basically threw it at the net looking for a deflection or a rebound," Shanahan said.
The goal, in fact, was originally credited to Lapointe, who appeared to deflect Shanahan's shot. But the scoring was changed after a video review.
McCarty's first goal of the season made it 4-1 only 1:06 into
the third. He broke in with a pass from Sergei Fedorov and deked
Tugnutt to the left before firing into an open right side of the
net.
"Darren was squeezing his stick pretty tight the last two
weeks," Shanahan said. "He had such good production in the
preseason and then he was snakebitten."
Game notes
Pushor's goal was his first since Dec. 16, 1998 with
Anaheim, a span of 113 games. ... Vyacheslav Kozlov, who has only
one goal and one assist in nine games, was a healthy scratch from
the Red Wings lineup for the second straight game. ... The Blue
Jackets' Krzysztof Oliwa had to be helped off the ice after he was hooked into the boards by Mathieu Dandenault early in the third
period.
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