Red Wings' Zetterberg, Holmstrom score and Osgood shuts out Bruins in victory

By LARRY LAGE , Associated Press

Last update: November 4, 2009 - 7:48 AM

DETROIT - Henrik Zetterberg and Tomas Holmstrom scored in the first period, then Chris Osgood finished with his first shutout of the season to give the Detroit Red Wings a 2-0 win over the Boston Bruins.

Osgood made 29 saves Tuesday night. He also got help from the posts behind him to prevent a goal in both the first and second periods for the 50th shutout of his career.

The rebuilding Red Wings are 3-0-1 in their last four games and have a point in seven of their last eight games.

Tim Thomas had 24 saves for Boston, which fell under .500 with their third loss in four games.

The Bruins were in trouble after giving up two goals a few minutes apart in the first period because they have scored just three goals in their last four games.

Boston pulled Thomas with about 1 1/2 minutes left to add an extra skater and called a timeout in the final minute, trying to come up with a way to pull within a goal.

It didn't happen.

The Red Wings were able to coast to victory after Zetterberg and Holmstrom scored at the 14:21 and 17:43 marks of the first period.

Zetterberg's third goal of the season came 2 seconds into a power play after Pavel Datsyuk pushed the puck toward the net from the left circle off a faceoff.

Holmstrom's eighth goal in 13 games came trailing on a rush after Datsyuk made a nifty drop pass off an up-ice pass from Todd Bertuzzi.

NOTES: Michael Ryder and Marco Sturm both had a good chance to score, but got unfortunate caroms off a post behind Osgood. ... Detroit's Jonathan Ericsson (flu), Brian Rafalski (flu) and Brad May (eye) were scratched from the lineup.

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