Posted by Matt Schwartz

10:05PM - Thursday, January 17, 2008

Henrik Zetterberg was the only player to score in the shootout to lift the Red Wings to a 3-2 victory over the visiting Vancouver Canucks Thursday night.

The victory ended a three-game losing streak for Detroit -- tied for their longest of the season -- and pushed the club's lead in the Western Conference to 14 points over second place Anaheim (72-58).

Dan Cleary continued his march toward blowing through his career-high in goals and points in a season, which he set last year, with both of Detroit's goals in regulation. Cleary gave the Wings a 1-0 lead late in the first period when he deflected a point shot from Andreas Lilja down onto the ice where it skipped and found a hole above Roberto Luongo's pad for his 17th goal.

Cleary made it 2-0 just 1:51 into the second period off another nifty deflection, this time off a feed from Valtteri Filppula.

The lead, however, wouldn't last.

The Canucks stormed back in the second half of the second period to tie the game at 2-2 with two goals just 2:47 apart. The first, off the stick of Henrik Sedin, came on a rebound of a hard point shot from defenseman Sami Salo. Markus Naslund tied the game when his turnaround wrist shot deflected off the skate of the Red Wings' Brian Rafalski and found the short side of the net past Dominik Hasek.

From that point on, however, it was a goaltending duel between Luongo and Hasek. The Red Wings peppered the All-Star netminder with 49 shots and forced Luongo to make several spectacular saves to secure the stalemate.

The Red Wings, which had a power-play late in overtime due to a delay-of-game penalty on Luongo, out-shot the Canucks 5-0 in the extra frame.

All three of Vancouver's shootout attempts failed. Defenseman Alex Edler missed the net while Trevor Linden and Taylor Pyatt were stopped by Hasek. Pavel Datsyuk missed the net on his attempt, Zetterberg scored on a nifty backhand through Luongo's legs and Jiri Hudler hit the post on his chance.

Hasek stopped 26 of 28 shots in the victory.

LGW.com's 3 Stars 1. Dan Cleary (DET) - Two Goals (17,18) 2. Roberto Luongo (VAN) - 47 Saves, .959 SV% 3. Henrik Zetterberg (DET) - GWG in Shootout  Red Wings Lines Filppula - Datsyuk - Holmstrom Franzen - Zetterberg - Samuelsson Cleary - Draper - Maltby Hudler - Kopecky - Downey Lidstrom - Rafalski Lilja - Kronwall Lebda - Chelios Hasek (Osgood)

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