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DETROIT (AP) – Jere Lehtinen scored two goals and the Dallas Stars overcame a three-goal deficit to beat the Detroit Red Wings 6-3 on Sunday night.

The Stars trailed 3-0 in the second period.

Niklas Hagman, Philippe Boucher, Niko Kapanen, and Mathias Tjarnqvist also scored for Dallas. Mike Modano, who is from the Detroit suburb of Westland, and Sergei Zubov each added three assists.

Henrik Zetterberg and Mathieu Schneider each had a goal and an assist and Jason Williams added a goal for Detroit. Pavel Datsyuk had three assists.

Lehtinen’s power-play goal 6:17 into the third period gave Dallas a 4-3 lead, when he backhanded in a loose puck from the bottom of the left circle for his 22nd goal. Kapanen scored 41 seconds later and Tjarnqvist’s goal came at 8:44.

Red Wings’ goalie Chris Osgood was replaced by Manny Legace after Tjarnqvist’s goal.

Detroit scored twice in the first 92 seconds of the second period to take a 3-0 lead, but Dallas rallied for three of its own.

Schneider scored 25 seconds into the period to make it 2-0, putting in a wrist shot from the point. Williams’ power-play goal at 1:32 came when he made a wrist shot from the high slot.

Stars goalie Marty Turco was pulled in favor of Johan Hedberg after Williams’ goal. Turco is 0-5-5 against the Red Wings in his career.

Hagman got Dallas on the board at 2:21 with a wraparound effort. Lehtinen’s first goal of the game, which came on the power play, made it 3-2 with 8:50 left in the middle period. He blasted a one-timer through Osgood from the right circle.

Another power-play goal, this one by Boucher, tied the score with 2:01 remaining.

Zetterberg’s 5-on-3 power-play goal gave Detroit a 1-0 lead 3:13 into the game. He scored from below the right face-off circle.

Dallas didn’t get its first shot until 13:17 when Antti Miettinen dumped a puck in on Osgood from the neutral zone. The Red Wings outshot the Stars 10-3 for the period.

Notes: Detroit F Johan Franzen missed his second straight game with an upper body injury. … It was the second straight game that Turco has been pulled after signing a 4-year contract extension worth $5.7 million per season on Wednesday. … Datsyuk’s assist on Schneider’s goal was the 200th point of his career.

AP-ES-01-08-06 1940EST

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