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Detroit's Brad Stuart, left, battles San Jose's Joe Thornton at Joe Louis Arena October 28, 2011. DETROIT The effort was better, but the results were just as lousy for the Detroit Red Wings.The Wings dropped their third straight game Friday with a sloppy second period costing them a 4-2 decision to the San Jose Sharks at Joe Louis Arena.San Jose got three second-period goals, two on breakaways, football schedule to win their fourth straight contest.The Wings were no shows in their loss at Columbus Tuesday and they started that way against the Sharks.Aided by an early power play, San Jose peppered goalie Jimmy Howard(notes) with seven shots. Five of those came on the power play and Howard s best stop was robbing Martin Hvlat with a flashing left pad.After surviving the power-play onslaught, the game sudden football schedule ly reversed its flow.Led by the trio of Pavel Datsyuk(notes), Henrik Zetterberg(notes) and Dan Cleary, the Wings took it to the Sharks and goalie Antti Niemi(notes) must have wondered where his teammates disappeared to. The Wings top line, which had combined for only three goals and nine points, turned in easily their best game of the season.Niemi made a great glove save on Zetterberg after football schedule a Sharks turnover at 7:30 and then robbed the Swede and Datsyuk in a flurry of rubber three minutes later.Having looked a shadow of himself through seven games, Zetterberg was full of life now and it seemed only a matter of time before his persistence was rewarded.It was at 12:20 when he jumped on a rebound of Nick Lidstrom s shot off the end boards to slam it into the empty cage.It looked to be football schedule 2-0 with 1:28 left in the opening period when a prone Tomas Holmstrom(notes) chipped another rebound off the boards into the goal during a Detroit power play.However, referee Brian Pochmara, in a decision that was highly debatable, ruled Holmstrom guilty of incidental contact with Niemi and waived off the goal.The second period started poorly for the Wings and ended just as badly.Cleary got called football schedule for tripping 27 seconds into the middle frame and the Sharks Ryan Clowe made Detroit pay with a power-play goal at 2:10.Detroit defenceman Ian White(notes) had a particularly dreadful period against his former club as he allowed Patrick Marleau(notes) to outrace him after he whiffed on knocking a bouncing puck away.It allowed Marleau to flip a shot past Howard at 7:57.Holmstrom got the Wings eve football schedule n with a power-play goal at 14:46 by tipping in Datsyuk s wrist shot from the point.Detroit should ve been no worse than level at the intermission, but White made another blunder that allowed Joe Thornton(notes) to score on a breakaway at 18:18.With Lidstrom having pinched to keep the puck in, White either had to drop off or make he sure he tied up Joe Pavelski(notes) along the boards at centre. I football schedule nstead he did a fly-by and Pavelski hit Thornton with an easy pass.With the Wings struggling to get much going in the third period, Detroit coach Mike Babcock shuffled a couple of his lines but he could find no cracks in the Sharks defensive shell.Thornton iced the game with an empty-netter at 19:25. Play Fantasy Hockey, now with Pro Leagues! And follow Yahoo! Sports' NHL coverage on Twitter. football schedule Updated Oct 28, 11:05 pm EDT football schedule
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