Stars, Red Wings set for Game 6

Detroit leads 3-2, but Dallas has won the last two games in the series.

DALLAS (AP) — The Detroit Red Wings aren’t really going to blow this — are they?

Just a few days ago, the Red Wings were still in a span of being undefeated for almost a month, owning the NHL’s longest postseason winning streak in 15 years and doing it with flair. Three games into the Western Conference finals, they hadn’t even trailed the Dallas Stars for a single second. All they had to do was win once more to seal a spot in the Stanley Cup finals.

Then the Stars won Game 4. And Game 5.

Now Game 6 is tonight and the Stars are feeling good, realizing they are halfway to a historic comeback.

“I think that’s crept into all of us a little bit,” Dallas captain Brenden Morrow said Sunday. “It’s building. We’re getting a little more of that feeling. None of us will be content just to make a series out of it. We want to win this thing.”

As for the Red Wings, they’ve lost four straight games only once all season. It seems hard to imagine this talented, experienced group would pick Games 4-7 of this series to do it again. Still, they’re heading in that direction.

“We still have to stay loose as a group,” Detroit captain Nicklas Lidstrom said. “I think the experience really helps when you’re in a situation like this.”

Dallas already is the 153rd team to turn a 3-0 deficit into a 3-2 series. Only five have been able to force a deciding game and only two teams have come all the way back to win the series.

Toronto did it in 1942. The New York Islanders did it 33 years later, in 1975.

Another 33 years later, the Stars are hoping to join the list.