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The mood in the room before tonight's Game 5

By Pierre LeBrun

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

DETROIT -- The coaches made it easy on us today. No guessing whatsoever. Red Wings stars Nicklas Lidstrom and Pavel Datsyuk are out for tonight's game, as are Blackhawks stars Martin Havlat and Nikolai Khabibulin. "Not playing," Wings coach Mike Babcock said after the pregame skate regarding Lidstrom (lower body) and Datsyuk (foot). Of course, your humble hockey reporter managed to make it more complicated because I didn't hear Babcock say that at the beginning of his news conference. So when ...

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