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CHICAGO (AP) -- Manny Legace stopped everything shot his way.
Jocelyn Thibault stopped almost nothing.
Legace blocked 23 shots for his first NHL shutout as the Detroit
Red Wings rolled to a 4-0 victory over the Blackhawks, spoiling
Chicago's home opener before a sellout United Center crowd.
"The guys played very solid in front of me," said Lagace, who
made his first appearance this season. "And to get shutout, you
have to be a little lucky."
Thibault enjoyed no such luck, allowing three goals on Detroit's
first four shots -- the only ones he faced.
"Obviously I'm not happy about it," Thibault said. "I wasn't
nervous or overexcited, but it's our third game and we'll just get
back to work."
Doug Brown, Sergei Fedorov and Tomas Holmstrom connected in the
opening 8:39 to stake Detroit to 3-0 lead and prompt first-year
Chicago coach to replace Thibault with Rob Tallas. Brendan Shanahan
added a goal with 8:02 left.
The early onslaught silenced a sellout United Center crowd
moments after the Blackhawks introduced their 75th anniversary team
in a pregame ceremony.
"Tonight we just came out of the blocks stumbling," Chicago's
Tony Amonte said. "We gave up a few goals early and never seemed
to regroup."
Brown opened the scoring on a high slap shot from the blue line
just 58 seconds in. Fedorov made it 2-0 on a short-handed breakaway
at 5:56 after he motored past Blackhawks defenseman Anders
Eriksson.
Holmstrom swept in a loose puck from the crease for a power-play
goal and a 3-0 Detroit lead.
Shanahan completed the scoring when he golfed in a loose puck
from 10 feet.
The sluggish, disjointed Blackhawks managed few prime scoring
chances against Legace.
"We played a solid game defensively and didn't give them any
chances," Detroit's Niklas Lidstrom said. "I thought we did a
good job of getting the puck out of our end as quick as
possible."
Game notes
Among the players elected by fans to the Blackhawks 75th
anniversary team were Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita, Glenn Hall, Tony
Esposito, Pierre Pilote, current Chicago assistant coach Denis
Savard and 92-year-old Harold "Mush" March, the oldest surviving
former Blackhawks player. Hull did not attend. ... Detroit's Chris
Chelios, who played nine seasons with the Blackhawks, was elected
to the team and took part in the ceremonies. "It was an honor to
be standing out there with those players," said Chelios, a Chicago
native. "Those were the players I grew up watching."
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