Kozlov put the Wings in the game with a power-play goal of his own with about five minutes to play in the first period. The teams entered the third period tied at 3, but Sergei Fedorov and Kozlov scored 24 second apart in the opening four minutes of the third for the victory. Eastern time the morning of May 9. While Detroit slept, Lapointe, the overtime hero of Game 1, addressed his teammates between overtime periods, urging a hero to step up. Our guys were saying that somebody needs to get it.
Somebody do it.
Marty Lapointe stood up and said a few words. Marty went through it in Game 1, and he knew from experience how it felt. He was saying, 'It's a great feeling, guys. Somebody's going to get it. It's in here.