ST. LOUIS -- Robert Lang had a goal and an assist, and Jason Williams had three assists to lead the Detroit Red Wings to a season-opening home-and-home sweep of the St. Louis Blues with a 4-3 victory Thursday night.\nDetroit, which beat the Blues 5-1 at home Wednesday night, could not have asked for a better opponent to open the season. Since 2002-03, Detroit is 11-1-1 against St. Louis.\nMikael Samuelsson, Jiri Fischer and Brendan Shanahan also scored for Detroit, while Manny Legace made 23 saves for his second win in as many nights. The victory wasn't assured until the final seconds as the Blues, with the goalie pulled for an extra attacker, got off several shots in a goal-mouth scramble. St. Louis outshot Detroit 11-4 in the final period.\nDoug Weight had a goal and an assist for St. Louis, while defenseman Andy Roach scored his first career goal and Dean McAmmond got his first goal as a member of the Blues.\nDetroit led 2-1 after the first period, and appeared to take control when Fischer and Shanahan scored late in the second.\nFischer made it 3-1 at 16:10 when he took a feed from Tomas Holmstrom, skated down the right side and beat goalie Patrick Lalime inside the far post. Shanahan then scored on the power play with 1:43 left in the period as he put in the rebound of Williams' shot from the left point.\nBut Weight cut it to 4-2 with a power-play goal at 5:06 of the third, and McAmmond made it a one-goal game 1:04 later when he beat Legace with a slap shot from the left circle.\nOn Wednesday, St. Louis had one shot in six power-play attempts. The Blues had six power plays in the first period Thursday, and managed to score their first goal when Roach snuck in from the left point and banged a centering pass from Weight past Legace 8:29 into the game.\nThe Red Wings tied it at 1 at 13:26 of the first period when Lang beat Lalime with a wrist shot from the top of the left circle. Detroit took the lead 2:28 later when Samuelsson's centering attempt banked off the skate of Weinrich and past Lalime.
\nMighty Ducks 5, \nBlackhawks 3
CHICAGO -- The Mighty Ducks got power-play goals from Teemu Selanne and Scott Niedermayer -- their big free-agent acquisitions -- and Jeffrey Lupul added two more to lift Anaheim to a 5-3 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Wednesday night.\nTwo of Anaheim's goals were short-handed: one by Lupul, and another by Rob Niedermayer, Scott's younger brother.\nChicago's Nikolai Khabibulin -- the highest profile goalie on last summer's free agent market after helping the Tampa Bay Lightning win the Stanley Cup -- allowed all five goals on 24 shots.\nAnaheim got 36 saves from Jean-Sebastien Giguere.\nChicago rookie Rene Bourque scored in his first NHL game. Mark Bell and Curtis Brown also connected for the Blackhawks.\nThe Mighty Ducks converted two of nine power-play chances. The Blackhawks were 1-for-9.\nEight of the nine free agents signed by the Blackhawks since July 2004 were in the lineup on Wednesday. Only defenseman Jaroslav Spacek, out with sore ribs, didn't dress.\nThe Mighty Ducks had three newly signed free agents -- Selanne, Scott Niedermayer and Jason Marshall -- in their lineup.\nBell opened the scoring at 8:22 of the first period by jamming a loose puck past Giguere from a scrum in front of the net.\nSelanne was credited with a 5-on-3 power-play goal at 11:33 that tied it 1-all.\nPetr Sykora's shot from the point struck Selanne, then richocheted off Chicago defenseman Jassen Cullimore and slipped between Khabibulin's pads.\nLupul's scored the first short-handed goal of his career with 2:30 left in the first to put Anaheim ahead 2-1.\nAfter breaking away down left wing, Lupul cut in front and fired a low shot that squeezed between Khabibulin's pads and barely trickled over the goal line. Lupul's second goal, at 2:19 of the second, made it 3-1. He cut down left wing, backed in rookie defenseman Brent Seabrook, cut to the net and scored on another low shot.\nBrown cut it to 3-2 at 8:40 when he took Kyle Calder centering pass and scored from the edge of the crease.\nScott Niedermayer's goalmouth power-play deflection of Fedorov's shot from right wing 59 seconds later made it 4-2.\nBourque trimmed it to 4-3 with by popping in a rebound for a power-play goal with 3:56 left in the second.\nRob Niedermayer converted a rebound for a short-handed goal at 1:40 of the third to make it 5-3.
