NHL 3 stars of the week

Zetterberg capped his best week of the season with the best night of his career Saturday — he had his fourth career hat trick and added two assists for a five-point night in the Wings’ 7-4 win against Anaheim. For the week, he had 3 goals and 6 assists, was plus-5 and scored the winning goal in back-to-back games.

Not coincidentally, the Red Wings won all three of their games last week. The Wings and their star center are both on their best streaks of the season; he has 5 goals and 11 points in Detroit’s last six games, and the Wings are 5-1-0 in that span.

Atlanta’s Ilya Kovalchuk and Buffalo’s Ryan Miller are the second and third star of the week.

Ilya Kovalchuk — Broken foot. What broken foot? Kovalchuk’s broken right foot still hasn’t completely healed, but it was good enough for him to skate — and he picked up where he had left off by terrorizing goaltenders, getting 3 goals and 5 assists as Atlanta won three times in a four-day span.

Ryan Miller — In a season that has seen several goaltenders get off to blazing starts, no one has done more with less than Miller, who won all three of his starts last week while allowing only four goals — even though his team scored only six non-empty netters. He leads the League in wins (12), goals-against average (1.77) and save percentage (.939)

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