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Pavel Datsyuk scored a power-play goal with one second left in overtime to give the Detroit Red Wings a 3-2 win over the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday night.

Datsyuk fired a one-timer off a feed from Jason Woolley past Nikolai Khabibulin to give the Red Wings their third straight win. The goal was allowed after a video review confirmed the puck went in before the end of the period.

Nicklas Lidstrom and Kris Draper scored in the final 39 seconds of regulation, with Detroit goalie Chris Osgood on the bench for an extra attacker, to erase a 2-0 Chicago lead and force overtime.

Lidstrom tied it on a slap shot from the deep slot with seven seconds remaining in regulation. Draper cut it to 2-1 with 39 seconds left on a mid-air deflection of Jason Woolley's pass.

Khabibulin, who was in search of his first shutout with the Blackhawks, made 34 saves. Tyler Arnason and Martin Lapointe scored for Chicago, which lost its third straight.

Osgood stopped 29 shots.

Arnason gave Chicago a 1-0 lead with 40 seconds left in the first period.

Mark Bell drove to the net past Detroit's Jason Williams. Osgood sprawled to poke-check the puck off Bell's stick, but Arnason trailed the play and fired in a high shot.

Lapointe extended Chicago's lead with 5:51 left in the second.

After Detroit's Tomas Holmstrom lost the puck at the Chicago blue line, Lapointe, Matthew Barnaby and Patrick Sharp broke down the ice. Lapointe, formerly of the Red Wings, drove to the right edge of the crease and scored on a tip-in after working a give-and-go with Barnaby.

The Red Wings recorded 10 shots in the first 6:22 of the third period. Khabibulin made point-blank stops on Henrik Zetterberg and Brett Lebda. He stopped Zetterberg again with a close-in glove save 5:40 into the period.

Kris Draper's deflection hit the right post with 9 minutes left.

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