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Red Wings forward Drew Miller could be in the lineup for Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals Saturday against the Blackhawks in Chicago.

The way it's described - and frankly, the way it looked at times - the Red Wings should just skate to center ice today at the United Center, go through a ceremonial puck drop, then commence with the end-of-series handshake line.

In Game 4 against the Ducks, they scored two - one by Brendan Smith to tie the game at 1-1 and one by Pavel Datsyuk to tie the game at 2-2 and send the game to overtime.

Anaheim Ducks centre Ryan Getzlaf and Detroit Red Wings centre Pavel Datsyuk vie for the puck during the second period in Game 3 of a first-round NHL Stanley Cup playoff series in Detroit, Saturday, May 4, 2013.

Players like Daniel Cleary , seen here battling Michal Rozsival, need to make Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford work harder to stop the puck.

Johnny Oduya celebrates after scoring one of the Chicago Blackhawks' three third-period goals in Wednesday's 4-1 Game 1 victory over the Detroit Red Wings.

No two teams have met more times in the NHL 's regular season. Next to the Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens , it is the most frequent matchup in the league's history.

Tomas Tatar can't be in the playoffs with Detroit, so he's grabbed the spotlight in Grand Rapids.

The Detroit Red Wings' Henrik Zetterberg battles for the puck against the Blackhawks' Jonathan Toews during the first period of Game 1 of their Western Conference semifinal series Wednesday at the United Center.

But the final 40 minutes of Chicago's 4-1 victory in Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals, the Blackhawks seemed to have all the energy and speed while leaving the Red Wings looking very pedestrian.

Officials say at least six people were killed when a spring tornado outbreak devastated parts of North Texas, destroying or damaging dozens of homes and injuring dozens of people.

There has been heavy speculation that Red Wings star Pavel Datsyuk will return to play in his native Russia when his contract runs out after next season.

There's little over a day left until hockey's longest rivalry is renewed for one more time, and both the Chicago Blackhawks and Detroit Red Wings have their sights set on the Western Conference Final.

Coach Mike Babcock split Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg in Game 7 of the first round against the Ducks, and it seemed to invigorate both newly formed lines.

PHT's Morning Skate takes a look around the world of hockey to see what's happening and what we'll be talking about around the NHL world and beyond.

Drunken driving claims the lives of more than a third of the people killed each year on U.S highways, a level of carnage that that has remained stubbornly consistent for the past decade and a half.

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Congress was not told tea party groups were being inappropriately targeted by the Internal Revenue Service, even after acting agency Chief Steven Miller had been briefed on the matter.

It was exciting for a game or two -- as the Wild clung to whatever chance they had to extend this thing past the standard 5-game loss, the NHL's way of telling a team, "You did pretty well to get that one win but you still got clobbered." This was actually a pretty good series.

The semifinals in the West feature matchups of division rivals. In a meeting of Central Division foes, the Blackhawks face the Red Wings in the playoffs for the 16th time, while Los Angeles and San Jose from the Pacific Division square off for the only the second time in the postseason.