Hawks win preseason tilt in Detroit

Posted September 22, 2013 7:36 pm

Associated Press

DETROIT — Byron Froese scored his second goal 3:25 into the third period and the Blackhawks held on for a 4-3 victory over the Detroit Red Wings in a preseason game Sunday.

Joakim Nordstrom and Garret Ross also scored for the Hawks, and Corey Crawford made 30 saves.

Tomas Tatar scored twice for Red Wings, Jonathan Ericsson added a goal, and Gustav Nyquist had 3 assists. Jimmy Howard stopped 16 of 20 shots before being replaced by Jared Coreau early in the third period. Coreau made 4 saves.

Tatar opened the scoring 7:29 into the game and Froese answered 1:49 later. Nordstrom’s goal came with 2:54 left in the first.

Ross and Froese scored less than a minute apart early in the third.

Tatar got his second goal, on the power play, with 7:02 left, and Ericsson’s goal came with 41 seconds to go.

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