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DETROIT (AP) -- Steve Passmore considers it a thrill to play
Detroit. Too bad the Red Wings don't feel the same about playing against him.
|  | | Chicago's Tony Amonte, left, knocks Detroit's Sergei Fedorov to the ice. |
The Red Wings, with their powerful lineup, threw 41 shots at Passmore on Thursday night. But the plucky backup goalie stood up to the barrage, helping the Chicago Blackhawks beat Detroit 5-3 Thursday night.
This was only the fifth home loss for the Red Wings, and Passmore -- the backup to Jocelyn Thibault -- is responsible for two of them.
What's his secret?
"I don't know," Passmore said. "Fear, maybe. Who knows? It's
a thrill to play against those guys.
"I don't want to make them sound old, but I grew up watching a
lot of those guys on television."
The game was tied 2-2 after two periods, but Tony Amonte,
Michael Nylander and Eric Daze scored third-period goals to break
it open. Steve Sullivan and Dean McAmmond also scored for Chicago.
Passmore stopped 37 of 39 shots in a 4-2 win at Joe Louis Arena
on Oct. 29 and stopped 46 of 50 shots in a 4-4 tie on New Year's
Eve in Detroit. Not bad for a guy who has played only 17 games
between trips down to the IHL.
"I'm playing about once every three weeks now," the jovial
Passmore said, working a plug of chewing tobacco into his mouth.
"So, there's a lot of pent up energy.
"I think the whole team stepped it up tonight. That's quite a
lineup they've got over there."
Doug Brown, Steve Yzerman and Yan Golubovsky scored for the Red
Wings, whose 18-5-2 home record is the best in the Western
Conference.
Amonte got off what looked like a routine shot from the left
circle, but the bouncing puck skipped inside the left post and past
goalie Chris Osgood for Amonte's 21st goal at 5:34 of the third,
breaking a 2-2 tie.
Osgood replaced Ken Wregget to start the second period.
"The last few games, there have been too many ugly goals,"
Detroit forward Brendan Shanahan said. "We can't score five or six
goals every night."
Nylander's 11th goal made it 4-2 with 8:58 left and Daze scored
his 16th with 6:47 remaining.
Sullivan scored his seventh goal 55 seconds into the first
period on the game's first shot. McAmmond, in the slot, passed the
puck to Sullivan in the right circle. Wregget, who faced 10 shots,
was slow to get over and Sullivan flipped it inside the post.
McAmmond made it 2-0 at 4:25 when he intercepted Sergei
Fedorov's backhand pass just inside the Chicago blue line and sped
in alone on Wregget for his ninth goal.
"We've got to start games better," Fedorov said. "We need to
pay attention to that."
Detroit made it 2-1 with 3:11 left in the first period on a good
play by Fedorov who flashed in on Passmore from the left side.
Fedorov got off a shot while being taken down by defenseman Boris
Mironov. The rebound went to Brown in the slot and he scored his
20th goal over the pile of bodies that included Passmore.
Yzerman tied it 2-2 with his 20th goal at 3:35 of the second,
skating around defenseman Anders Eriksson and beating Passmore low
on the stick side.
Golubovsky scored his first NHL goal with 33.8 seconds left.
Detroit outshot Chicago 41-28.
"We're sort of in the mode where we're going through the
motions right now," Fedorov said. "The goalies take advantage of
that."
Passmore did.
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