Rookie Patrick Kane scored a goal and added two assists as the Chicago Blackhawks blasted the Detroit Red Wings in a 6-2 rout Wednesday night in the United Center. Chicago raced out to a 3-0 lead early in the first period that chased starting netminder Dominik Hasek and never looked back.

The loss prevented the Red Wings from securing its sixth President's Trophy. Detroit needs just one point over its final two games to secure the prize for the NHL's top regular season team. The Wings tied the Buffalo Sabres with 113 points for tops in the NHL last season but lost out on the trophy because the Sabres had more wins.

The victory kept hope alive for the Blackhawks' slim playoff hopes: Chicago needs to win its final two games and get some help from Nashville and Vancouver in order the squeeze into the 8th seed and face Detroit in the first round starting April 10th.

Cam Barker, Jordan Hendry and former Wing Robert Lang all scored in the first 7:52 of the game to stake Chicago to a 3-0 lead. The Blackhawks had outshot Detroit 6-0 to that point and Lang's partial breakaway tally signaled the end of the night for Hasek, who was coming off a 22-save shutout of Nashville on Sunday.

Henrik Zetterberg's 42nd of the season pulled Detroit to within 3-1 late in the first period but the three-goal differential was restored quickly in the 2nd period when Dustin Byfuglien's power-play goal gave Chicago a 4-1 lead.

Kirk Maltby made it 4-2 with an unassisted score six minutes into the middle frame but Chicago answered quickly again when Kane scored 1:29 later.

Adam Burish scored Chicago's 6th goal of the night in the waning minutes of the third period to close out the scoring.

Chris Osgood, who was originally slated to play Thursday at home against Columbus, stopped 19 of 22 shots. Nikolai Khabibulin turned away 26 of Detroit's 28 shots.