Marian Hossa scored three goals and Kari Lehtonen made 46 saves to lift the Atlanta Thrashers to a 5-1 win over the Detroit Red Wings on Tuesday night.
Hossa scored the Thrashers' first three goals, notching his seventh career hat trick, and the first in nearly a year -- Jan. 16, 2007.
Eric Perrin and Slava Kozlov also scored, while Tobias Enstrom, Ilya Kovalchuk and Mark Recchi each added two assists for Atlanta.
Nicklas Kronwall scored for NHL-leading Detroit, which has lost three straight. Chris Osgood stopped 13 shots before being pulled in favor of Dominik Hasek less than halfway through the game.
Hossa, who has 19 goals, opened the scoring with a power-play goal 7:33 in when he skated out of the corner to the front of the net and beat Osgood.
His second goal came with 5:38 left in the opening period when Hossa stripped the puck from Detroit defenseman Brett Lebda in the Red Wings zone and put a shot between Osgood's torso and arm.
He made it 3-0 just 1:14 into the second period on a wrister from the high slot.
Perrin's power-play goal made it 4-0 at 7:28 and sent Osgood to the bench.
The Thrashers didn't have a shot for the remainder of the period while Detroit took 19 at Lehtonen from that point until the end of the period.
Kronwall foiled Lehtonen's shutout bid with 6:18 left, but Kozlov got his 13th goal with a minute left.
Labels: Atlanta Thrashers, Hockey, Hossa, NHL, Wings
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