Really you had to see Friday’s 4-3 Detroit win coming – that franchise is too proud to be swept, although Detroit did blow a 3-0 lead in Game 4. The game-winner came courtesy of Darren Helm's goal that snapped a 3-3 tie with 1:27 remaining in the third period. Helm was only the second NHL player to score a tiebreaking goal in the last five minutes of the third period in the 2011 playoffs. The other player to do that was the Rangers' Brandon Dubinsky at the 18:21 mark of period three in Game 3 of New York's first-round series against the Capitals.

Nicklas Lidstrom, playing likely his final home game in a Hall of Fame career, was the star with two goals in Game 4. Lidstrom's first goal gave him 181 career playoff points, breaking a second-place tie with Ray Bourque for scoring by a defenseman, and broke an 11th-place tie overall with Jaromir Jagr. Detroit is trying to become the fourth NHL team to win a series after trailing 3-0. Friday’s win was just Detroit’s third in the past 14 matchups overall with San Jose and its first in Motown this year vs. the Sharks.

Game 4 was the first in the series where Detroit won more than half the draws, taking 33 of 64. Through the first three games, the Sharks held the overall edge, winning 129 of 251 draws for a 51.4 percent success rate.

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