RED WINGS Injured Hasek shelved

Detroit's veteran goalie hopes to return to the team next season.
DETROIT (AP) -- The Detroit Red Wings were counting on Dominik Hasek to take care of their goaltending logjam with dominating play.
Instead, he did it with an injury.
Hasek announced Tuesday his season was over because of a nagging groin injury that limited him to just 14 games.
"Once I got on the ice last week, it was almost every day my groin got worse and I knew it's impossible," he said.
Detroit is now left with the same goalies -- Curtis Joseph and Manny Legace -- it had last year.
"They're ready to go, the team's ready to go, there will be no more talk of what-ifs," Red Wings coach Dave Lewis said. "I think the feeling is that it's over, the controversy is over."
But the team could be talking about this again next season. Hasek plans to come back and play at the age of 40.
"I will get in better shape this summer, and I can do it," he said.
One of the NHL's greatest goalies, Hasek won two MVP awards and six Vezina Trophies, given to the league's top goalie, during a nine-year stint in Buffalo. He also led the Czech Republic to a gold medal in the 1998 Nagano Olympics.
Hasek joined the Red Wings before the 2001-02 season, winning his first Stanley Cup that season. He retired in 2002, but came back to Detroit before this season.
Good record last year
Last season, with Joseph and Legace, the Red Wings had one of the best records in the league. But they also lost to Anaheim in the first round of the playoffs.
When Hasek retired, Detroit lured Joseph away from Toronto with a $24 million, three-year deal to replace Hasek. When Hasek returned and agreed to make $6 million this season, the Red Wings desperately tried to trade Joseph.
But no one wanted to take "Cujo" because of the two years and $16 million left on his contract.
And for that, the Red Wings are thankful.
"It's very strange the way things worked out," Red Wings general manager Ken Holland said from the NHL GMs meeting in Henderson, Nev. "It's been very, very difficult on Curtis and on his family."