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03/14/2009 - St. Louis, MO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Pavel Datsyuk scored twice as the Central Division-leading Detroit Red Wings defeated the St. Louis Blues, 5-2, at Scottrade Center.
Tomas Kopecky, Brett Lebda and Henrik Zetterberg also tallied for Detroit, which has won four of its last six games.
The Red Wings lead the Western Conference with 99 points.
Chris Osgood stopped 30-of-32 shots for the Red Wings and claimed his 300th career win with Detroit.
Red Wings' leading-goal scorer Marian Hossa returned to the lineup for the first time since crashing head-first into the boards in a 5-0 win at St. Louis on March 3. In that game he had to be taken off the ice on a stretcher and missed the last four contests with a stiff neck/back and bruised knee. He played 15:06 without registering a point.
T.J. Oshie and Jeff Woywitka scored for the Blues, who weren't able to build off wins over Dallas and San Jose.
Chris Mason made 19 saves on 23 shots for St. Louis, before being pulled after two periods in favor of Ben Bishop, who turned aside all three shots faced.
Oshie opened the scoring with 5:16 left in the first period on a wrist shot from the left circle that beat Osgood to the blocker side, giving the Blues the early advantage.
In the second, Detroit struck three times within 46 seconds. Datsyuk got things started at 4:40 when he took a rink-wide feed from Brad Stuart and put a wrister home from the middle slot to tie the contest.
Kopecky then tallied 10 seconds later, before Blues head coach Andy Murray called a timeout to gather the troops. However, it would do little good as Lebda capitalized off a St. Louis turnover and ripped a wrist shot past Mason to the glove side to make it a 3-1 game.
Woywitka's blast from the point at 9:08 of the second cut the hosts' deficit to one.
However, Datsyuk lit the lamp with 36 seconds left in the frame when he fired a wrister from the right circle that went through a Blues defender and beat a screened Mason to make it 4-2 heading into the second intermission.
Zetterberg's empty net tally with 1:57 left in the game accounted for the final score.
Game Notes
Detroit will visit Columbus on Sunday, while the Blues host Minnesota on Sunday...Red Wings center Valtteri Filppula left after two periods with back spasms and did not return...The Blues have gone winless in five games versus the Red Wings this year, getting outscored 22-9...Detroit improved to 20-10-5 as the visitor this season. St. Louis fell to 18-13-5 as the host.
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Jon Diebler had 17 points an
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stretch to down top-ranked North Carolina, 73-70, in ACC Tournament semifinal
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<< Biron sharp again, Asham nets a pair as Flyers beat Rangers
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Aaron Asham had two goal
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Mickelson and Watney tied for CA Championship lead >>
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Super Bowl XLIII is now set, the Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers will meet each other on February 1st in Tampa's Raymond James Stadium to battle it out for the coveted Lombardi Trophy. The game kicks off at 6:00pm ET on NBC with announcers Al Michaels and John Madden covering the on-field action. Super Bowl XLIII betting odds at online bookmaker MySportsbook.com have the Steelers listed as an early -6.5 against the spread favorite.Super Bowl XLIII Betting Odds
Pittsburgh earned their passage to the big game by beating their division rival, the Baltimore Ravens, 23-14 in yesterday's AFC Championship Game. The Steelers jumped on Baltimore early, building a 13-0 first half lead, and never let up on their way to a fairly easy win. Although the Ravens did close to within two points in the fourth quarter, it never appeared as if they had enough offense to pull off the upset.
The Steelers dominating defense held Baltimore to a total of 198 yards while allowing them to convert just three third downs in 13 attempts. Pittsburgh also forced quarterback Joe Flacco into three interceptions, one of which safety Troy Polamalu returned fourty yards for a touchdown.
The Cardinals, by far the playoff team with the longest odds to reach Super Bowl XLIII, did so yesterday with a 32-25 upset of the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC Championship. Arizona charged out of the gates and built a 24-6 halftime lead that had the Eagles venerable defense reeling. Quarterback Kurt Warner and wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald did most of the damage, connecting on three first half touchdowns.
Arizona, however, could not sustain their momentum and the Eagles took a 25-24 with 10:45 left to play in the fourth. The Cardinals, with the franchise's first Super Bowl appearance hanging in the balance, mounted a fourteen play, 72 yard touchdown drive that consumed 7:52 off the clock. Warner hit running back Tim Hightower on a short screen for the go-ahead, game clinching score that will forever live in Cardinal infamy.
MySportsbook.com's Super Bowl XLIII Betting Odds:
Pittsburgh Steelers -6.5 (-110), Over 46.5 (-110), -260 (Money line)
Arizona Cardinals +6.5 (-110), Under 46.5 (-110), +220 (Money line)
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