DETROIT -- OK everyone, put on your helmets, stock up on canned goods and hide out in the closet, because Armageddon is upon us.

	After Patrick Roy allowed this sixth Detroit goal, he was pulled for the night.

Patrick Roy, playoff goalie extraordinaire, was the first to fold Friday night in Joe Louis Arena, and Dominik Hasek and the Detroit Red Wings are headed to the finals to fight the Carolina Hurricanes for their third Stanley Cup in six years.

St. Patrick allowed six goals on 16 shots, four on his first eight, and gave up six goals in a playoff game for just the sixth time in his career. At 6:28 of the second period, Colorado coach Bob Hartley replaced Roy with backup David Aebischer, marking the first time Roy has been pulled in a seventh game.

"Before the game, we never expected that we'd go back to the locker room after period one with a 4-0 lead, but I only felt sort of safe after we scored the fifth goal," Hasek said. "I was glad when Patrick Roy was pulled because with him, anything can happen."

For the Red Wings, depth finally prevailed. Anyone who was worried that Detroit's old legs couldn't hack a seven-game series is at home eating crow. The Red Wings forechecking was stifling throughout the entire game, and they clogged the neutral zone so well Avalanche movers and shakers like Peter Forsberg, Joe Sakic and Chris Drury could hardly move the puck at all.

Detroit won 65 percent of the faceoffs and finally got the kind of scoring its four perfectly stacked, perfectly rolled lines were designed to get.

"We kept the faith that our depth would help us in the long run, and tonight we were the fresher team," said Detroit winger Brendan Shanahan. "We were disappointed that we went down three games to two, but we felt we were the better team throughout the series."

The first Red Wing goal came just 1:57 into the first period. Defenseman Steve Duchesne took a slap shot that was brilliantly tipped in by left wing Tomas Holmstrom. The second showed the first real chink in Roy's armor. Sergei Fedorov moved up the left wing and blasted a slap shot from the top of the circle. The shot was tipped by Avs defenseman Rob Blake, but it was the kind of tip Roy can usually adjust to without batting an eyelash.

Instead, it glanced off his glove and went between his elbow and his body and into the net.

Wings left wing Luc Robitaille played his best game of the series, scoring a five-hole goal from Roy's front porch and assisting on two others. At 12:51 of the first period, Robitaille showed his true offensive flair -- he carried the puck into the zone and outmaneuvered three Avalanche players to backhand a shot on goal that rebounded right to the stick of Holmstrom for the goal.

Brett Hull, who had also been quiet in the series, scored Detroit's fifth goal on a perfect shot from the slot off of a perfect, heads-up pass from Boyd Devereaux.

Defenseman Fredrick Olausson and rookie center Pavel Datsyuk scored on power plays to round Detroit's goal total off at a not-so-even seven. Hasek registered his 14th playoff shutout and his fifth this season by stopping 19 Avalanche shots.

"It's a lot easier on everyone's ticker to have a big lead," said Detroit right wing Darren McCarty. "They didn't get many chances, but when they did, Dom was there to answer the call."

Detroit fans were hardly surprised. They had a few signs of the apocalypse earlier in the series, like Grind-liner Darren McCarty's first career hat trick in Game 1 and Olausson's first goal since 1992 to win in overtime of Game 3.

Now, the Wings bring all their fire and brimstone to stand against the Hurricanes. Look out, North Carolina.