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Red Wings missing Franzen’s presence

No one would say it in the locker room following Saturday’s 2-1 loss to the Dallas Stars, but the absence of Johan Franzen is starting to loom large for the Detroit Red Wings.

Detroit won its first two contests without the “Mule,” who has been sidelined with concussion-like symptoms, to extend its playoff winning streak to a franchise-record nine games.

But not having Franzen, the playoffs’ top goal scorer, finally may be taking a toll.

After opening a commanding three-games-to-none lead in the Western Conference finals, the Red Wings have dropped two straight straight as the Stars have proven difficult to put away.

Detroit has managed only one goal in each of the last two games, and Franzen’s absence could be a big reason why.

It’s not that the Red Wings haven’t had opportunities. They peppered Stars netminder Marty Turco with 39 shots on Saturday, but couldn’t finish.

“We had our quality chances,” Detroit coach Mike Babcock said. “We missed the net - we missed the net 19 times. We had ample opportunity, weren’t able to get it done.”

Disappointment for Canada as Russia takes gold at World Hockey Championship

The first ever IIHF World Hockey Championship to be played in Canada ended in silver for the host country after a heartbreaking 5-4 loss to Russia on Sunday in the gold-medal game.Ilya Kovalchuk’s power-play goal at 2:42 of overtime gave the Russians their first gold medal at the event since 1993.

The result left disappointed a partisan crowd of 13,338 at Le Colisee Pepsi that hoped to watch Canada become the first home nation to win the championship since the Soviet Union in 1986.

“Right now we are the champions of the world and it feels so great,” said Russian winger Alex Ovechkin. “It’s really special to win here because this is hockey and it’s a hockey-mad country.

“It just feels wonderful. It feels so great.”

 

It looked good for the Canadians through 40 minutes, when they built a 4-2 lead on a pair of goals from defenceman Brent Burns plus singles from Ryan Getzlaf and Dany Heatley.

But the Russians tied it in the third period, getting goals from Alexei Tereshchenko and Kovalchuk to force the extra period.

“You get a game into overtime, it’s flip a coin,” said Canadian head coach Ken Hitchcock. “We all know that. We’ve all been in these games before.”

Bad luck struck the Canadians just 1:55 in when forward Rick Nash accidentally shot the puck over the glass, resulting in an automatic penalty.