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The Detroit Red Wings used a strong finish to make up for a weak start.
Tomas Holmstrom broke a tie with a power-play goal early in the third period and Detroit beat the Colorado
\">Avalanche 6-3 on Sunday in the last game before the Olympic break for each team.
Detroit, which won its sixth straight, got a goal and two assists from Pavel Datsyuk and a goal and an assist from Holmstrom, Henrik Zetterberg, and Mathieu Schneider. Jason Williams and Brendan Shanahan also scored and Nicklas Lidstrom had two assists.
The Red Wings, who trailed 2-0 10:04 into the game, completed a four-game sweep of its season series against the
\">Avalanche.
``We didn't get off to a great start tonight,'' Shanahan said. ``... But from the 10-minute mark of the first period for the rest of the game, we played a pretty strong 50 minutes.''
Dan Hinote had a goal and an assist for Colorado and Patrice Brisebois and Milan Hejduk got the other goals.
``It wasn't our best game,''
\">Avalanchecoach Joel Quenneville said. ``Technically, we didn't get a lot of things done. Against that kind of team, we've got to a play a perfect game from start to finish.''
Holmstrom chopped in the rebound of Lidstrom's shot 4:43 into the third period with Brad Richardson off for hooking to give Detroit a 4-3 lead. Zetterberg and Shanahan (empty net) added goals later in the period.
Datsyuk's 21st goal tied it at 2 for the Red Wings 6:51 into the second period. He beat David Aebischer from the slot. But Hinote restored the Avalanche's one-goal lead 2:49 later when he banked one in off Manny Legace from the side of the net.
Williams tied it at 3 with 9:17 left in the period when he redirected a pass from Brett Lebda in the slot.
``They've got a good hockey team,'' Colorado's Joe Sakic said. ``They move the puck well, we know we've got to play better against them, especially in the neutral zone where they pick up their speed.''
Colorado led 2-1 after the first period.
Brisebois opened the scoring at 5:35 with a slap shot from the top of the right circle that beat Legace. Hejduk made it 2-0 at 10:04 with his 16th goal. He beat Legace from the slot after taking a pass from Sakic, who had stolen the puck from Andreas Lilja behind the net.
``I didn't think we were playing terrible, but I didn't think we had the intensity the first 10 minutes,'' Red Wings coach Mike Babcock said.
Schneider got Detroit on the board with 6:07 left in the period with his 19th. He beat Aebischer with slap shot from the left point.
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