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Saturday, Oct. 21 7:30pm ET
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DETROIT (AP) -- Nothing has come easy at home for the Detroit Red Wings this season. Even when they win. Brendan Shanahan scored on a power play with 32.6 seconds left in overtime, giving the Red Wings a 5-4 victory Saturday night over the Buffalo Sabres. It was just the second win in five home games for the Red Wings, who lost a 2-1 overtime decision to Nashville in their last Joe Louis Arena start on Thursday. Shanahan used a screen from Tomas Holmstrom to beat Hasek after taking a pass from Nicklas Lidstrom. "Homer did a great job," Shanahan said. "Nick and I played a little catch back and forth before the shot. I couldn't see Hasek and I hoped he didn't see me." Shanahan scored 19 seconds after a knee-to-knee collision between Detroit's Sergei Fedorov and Buffalo's Jay McKee. Fedorov went down hard, and McKee went to the penalty box, setting up Detroit's third power-play goal of the night. Fedorov had his knee wrapped after the game but was walking without a limp. "He's got big, strong legs. That's what (trainer) John Wharton said," Detroit coach Scotty Bowman explained. "It could've been real serious. That's the problem with those things." Knee injuries have plagued the Red Wings through the early season. Captain Steve Yzerman and defenseman Chris Chelios are out after having knee surgery last week, and defenseman Steve Duchesne returned Saturday after missing two games with his own knee trouble. McKee said the collision was accidental. "I lunged to try to hit him and my leg came out and hit his leg and we got a penalty for it," McKee said. Pat Verbeek scored two goals and Fedorov added two assists for Detroit, which also got goals from Doug Brown and Martin Lapointe. Miroslav Satan, Stu Barnes, Doug Gilmour and Curtis Brown scored for Buffalo. "I don't think you can say Detroit outplayed us," Buffalo coach Lindy Ruff said. "For long portions of the game I thought we took the play to them. We're just not as good of divers as they are." Verbeek scored twice in the second period to give the Red Wings a 4-3 lead, but Brown tied it early in the third. Hasek made 22 saves but remained winless (0-4-1). Manny Legace had 29 saves for the Red Wings. Detroit, which entered just 3-for-32 on the power play -- including 0-for-17 at home -- went 3-for-5 against the Sabres. "We finally cashed in some of the chances we've been getting," Verbeek said. "I've thought for the last (two) games we've been getting the puck to the net. When you get the puck to the net, good things happen." Brown scored on Detroit's second power play when he redirected Larry Murphy's shot from the right circle past Hasek 11:10 into the game. Satan countered at 17:32, just seconds after a Buffalo power play expired, when he got loose in front of the net and converted a short pass from Chris Gratton. Lapointe put the Red Wings back on top at 18:50 when he beat Hasek at the end of a two-on-one break with Shanahan. Each team scored twice in the second period, with Verbeek netting both Detroit goals. Barnes scored on a power-play breakaway at 3:39, and Gilmour got his first goal when he fired Maxim Afinogenov's rebound past Legace at 6:22 to give the Sabres a 3-2 lead. But Verbeek scored three seconds into a Detroit power play at 7:06. Fedorov won a faceoff back to Nicklas Lidstrom, who took a hard shot that Verbeek deflected past Hasek. Verbeek scored again with 51.5 seconds left in the period to put Detroit up 4-3. Brown tied it 5:40 into the third with a short shot that went under Legace's left arm and slid just over the goal line. Game notesHasek earned an assist on Barnes' goal. ... Brown's goal ended an 0-for-18 power-play drought for the Red Wings. ... A video review was held after Fedorov deflected Jiri Fischer's shot behind Hasek with the game still scoreless in the first. But replays showed no goal as the puck hit the crossbar and deflected off the right post. ... Verbeek played his 1,300th career game. ... The Sabres have allowed 11 power-play goals in 41 chances. | ALSO SEE NHL Scoreboard Buffalo Clubhouse Detroit Clubhouse RECAPS Toronto 2 Calgary 1
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