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01-03-2010, 06:50 PM
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Associated Press
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Tomas Holmstrom has spent much of his NHL career planted in front of the opponent's goalie deflecting shots into the net.
He was there again Saturday night, beating goalie Ilya Bryzgalov off deflections of Nicklas Lidstrom's shots for his 14th and 15th goals in the Detroit Red Wings' 4-1 victory over the Phoenix Coyotes.
"That's the way I score my goals," Holmstrom said. "Sometimes they go in, sometimes they go out.
Pavel Datsyuk added a power-play goal, and Darren Helm had an empty-netter for the Red Wings, who opened a five-game trip with their second straight win.
The Coyotes had a two-man advantage when Matthew Lombardi scored their lone goal.
Phoenix lost at home in regulation for the first time since Nov. 16, a span of 12 games, in front of a crowd announced as a sellout of 17,125.
"We know they've been playing real well here at home," Lidstrom said. "We wanted to play real solid defensively and try to wait for our chances. I thought we did an excellent job in our own zone."
The Coyotes lost their second in a row at home after their franchise-record 10-game winning streak there ended in a 3-2 shootout loss to San Jose on Thursday night.
"In the home building, we should have been able to pull it out," Phoenix forward Robert Lang said. "We started really good and obviously they kind of came on with the first goal and kind of took the wind away from us. But we came back and just made mistakes."
It was the first sellout since the home opener for the Coyotes, owned by the NHL after a bitter bankruptcy battle
Associated Press
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Tomas Holmstrom has spent much of his NHL career planted in front of the opponent's goalie deflecting shots into the net.
He was there again Saturday night, beating goalie Ilya Bryzgalov off deflections of Nicklas Lidstrom's shots for his 14th and 15th goals in the Detroit Red Wings' 4-1 victory over the Phoenix Coyotes.
"That's the way I score my goals," Holmstrom said. "Sometimes they go in, sometimes they go out.
Pavel Datsyuk added a power-play goal, and Darren Helm had an empty-netter for the Red Wings, who opened a five-game trip with their second straight win.
The Coyotes had a two-man advantage when Matthew Lombardi scored their lone goal.
Phoenix lost at home in regulation for the first time since Nov. 16, a span of 12 games, in front of a crowd announced as a sellout of 17,125.
"We know they've been playing real well here at home," Lidstrom said. "We wanted to play real solid defensively and try to wait for our chances. I thought we did an excellent job in our own zone."
The Coyotes lost their second in a row at home after their franchise-record 10-game winning streak there ended in a 3-2 shootout loss to San Jose on Thursday night.
"In the home building, we should have been able to pull it out," Phoenix forward Robert Lang said. "We started really good and obviously they kind of came on with the first goal and kind of took the wind away from us. But we came back and just made mistakes."
It was the first sellout since the home opener for the Coyotes, owned by the NHL after a bitter bankruptcy battle