1.   TV camera lights flashed on, finding Stars leading playoff scorer Joe Nieuwendyk with a microphone in his face and bait dangling before him.

2.   Center Peter Forsberg, their leading playoff scorer, is out for the rest of the postseason following surgery to remove his damaged spleen.

3.   Fedorov leads all playoff scorers with eight goals and six assists, and four fellow Wings join him on the playoff scoring leaders list.

4.   Still, the key to the Red Wings is offense and they have three of the top six playoff scorers in Federov, Coffey and Slava Kozlov.

5.   Sakic leads playoff scorers with seven goals and four assists.