CHICAGO — Patrick Sharp and Cristobal Huet rescued the Chicago Blackhawks after a 3-0 lead evaporated against the defending Stanley Cup champions.

Sharp scored at 1:52 of overtime last night, giving Chicago a 4-3 victory over Detroit and cutting the Red Wings' lead in the Western Conference finals to 2-1.

"A lot of teams probably would have gone the other way after giving up a three-goal lead, but we stayed with it," Sharp said. "After they scored the third one, we played some of our best hockey. When we needed to play our best period of the season we did and carried it into overtime."

With the game tied at 3 after two periods, Huet came in to replace starting goalie Nikolai Khabibulin, who had a lower-body injury. Huet, in his first action of the postseason, stopped six shots in the third. His play helped slow the Red Wings' momentum after they scored three goals in the second.

Game 4 is tomorrow at the United Center.

After Matt Walker's shot from the point in overtime, Dustin Byfuglien tried to control it in front, and teammate Sammy Pahlsson reached in and pushed it over to Sharp, who got it past Chris Osgood for the winner and his second goal of the game.

"Osgood is a good goaltender. I've scored a few from that backdoor and wasn't missing that one," Sharp said.

DETROIT 0 3 0 0—3

CHICAGO 2 1 0 1—4

First Period—1, Chicago, Sharp 6 (Seabrook, Bolland), 8:45 (pp). 2, Chicago, Ladd 3 (Bolland, Havlat), 9:50. Second Period—3, Chicago, Pahlsson 2 (Keith), :45. 4, Detroit, Lidstrom 4 (Hossa, Filppula), 14:38 (pp). 5, Detroit, Rafalski 3 (Samuelsson, Cleary), 17:10. 6, Detroit, Ericsson 2 (Stuart, Hossa), 19:01. First Overtime—7, Chicago, Sharp 7 (Walker, Barker), 1:52.

Shots on Goal—Detroit 6-18-6-0—30. Chicago 11-8-6-2—27. Power-play opportunities—Detroit 1 of 3; Chicago 1 of 4. Goalies—Detroit, Osgood 10-4-0 (27 shots-23 saves). Chicago, Khabibulin (24-21), Huet 1-0-0 (0:00 third, 6-6).

A—22,678 (20,500). T—2:51.

NOTES

Flames: Mike Keenan was fired as coach of Calgary, almost a month after his team lost in the first round of the playoffs for the second straight year.

Keenan spent just two seasons with Calgary, which finished the regular season with 46 wins and 98 points, but they were ousted in the first round in six games by the Chicago Blackhawks.