After almost blowing a 4-1 third period lead, the Wings came back and battled in overtime to win the game 5-4 after Gustav Nyquist's game-winning heroics!

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Stars of the Game powered by Ram Trucks are...

1. Gustav Nyquist (GWG)

2. Bobby Ryan (1 Goal, 1 Assist)

3. Kyle Palmieri (1 Goal, 1 Assist)

Darren Helm	Drew Miller	Jordin Tootoo	Mikael Samuelsson
Helm (Back)	Miller (Hand)	Tootoo (Healthy Scratch)	Samuelsson (Healthy Scratch)
Ian White	Carlo Colaiacovo	Brian Lashoff
White (Healthy Scratch)	Colaiacovo (Healthy Scratch)	Lashoff (Healthy Scratch)

Henrik Zetterberg	Pavel Datsyuk	Justin Abdelkader
Johan Franzen	Valtteri Filppula	Daniel Cleary
Gustav Nyquist	Joakim Andersson	Damien Brunner
Patrick Eaves	Cory Emmerton	Todd Bertuzzi
Niklas Kronwall	Jonathan Ericsson
Kyle Quincey	Brendan Smith
Danny DeKeyser	Jakub Kindl
Jimmy Howard

Bertuzzi

Todd Bertuzzi will make his return to the lineup tonight.

Jordin Tootoo will be a healthy scratch.

Tootoo

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Bertuzzi

Bert will start on the fourth line alongside Cory Emmerton and Patrick Eaves.

Mikael Samuelsson may return to the lineup, but only if someone else can't go tonight due to injury.

Samuelsson

Babcock

Mike Babcock will go with the same six defensemen that he went with in Game 1.

Jimmy Howard will make his 17th consecutive start tonight.

Howard

Hiller

Jonas Hiller will be between the pipes for Anaheim again tonight.

Get the Lead - It's too difficult and taxing to play from behind, especially in the playoffs. Start early and get going in the offensive zone from puck drop.

Shoot the Puck - Simply put, you can't score if you don't put the puck on net. Detroit needs to generate more offense, which means getting more than 22 shots on goal. Shoot the puck, get rebounds, cycle well and get to the front of the net.

Get the Puck Out of the Defensive Zone - During the team's four game win streak, the defense got the puck to the forwards and sent them on their way. This is key to generating offense and spending less time in the defensive zone.

On May 2, 1952

Gordie Howe wins the Hart Trophy as the NHL's Most Valuable Player. It was his first career MVP award.

After going into the postseason on a four game winning streak, Detroit came out flat in Game 1, and clearly were not happy with their performance Tuesday night. "As a group we didn’t feel that we played very well," coach Mike Babcock said. “We didn’t execute very well coming out of our own zone. We didn’t have a lot of speed, therefore we didn’t have attack time. We didn’t have good separation forwards and our D. We didn’t like our game very much.”

The Wings managed 22 shots on Jonas Hiller in Game 1, but they'll look to be more offensive in Anaheim's zone tonight. “I think we need to sustain more pressure in their end,” captain Henrik Zetterberg said. "There was too much one-and-done. They’re playing good defense. They’re clogging up the neutral zone pretty good, so we’ve got to get the pucks deep and go work in their end." If the Wings can get these things done tonight, they may be heading home in a suddenly best-of-five series.

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Red Wings tie it at one
Jakub Kindl has his shot take a strange bounce off of teammate Daniel Cleary and go into the net.