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DETROIT -- The Detroit Red Wings are struggling to score goals but they dont plan to sacrifice defense in order to create more offense.The Red Wings (13-14-4) host the Anaheim Ducks (16-10-5) Saturday at 7 p.m. at Joe Louis Arena.Detroit has scored three goals during their four-game winless streak -- all at home -- (0-3-1). It ranks second-to-last in the NHL in goals per game (2.19), shots per game (28.1) and the power play (13.3 percent).The best offense comes from good defense, Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill told www.mlive.com. I think the biggest thing is you have to be fast out of your zone, you have to be fast in the D-zone to make sure youre spending enough time (in the offensive zone). Then it comes down to winning battles.We want to create lots of rushes. Weve been a pretty good rush team. Thats how you open it up. Wed like to create lots of chances without giving up any rushes. I dont think the answer is to start giving up lots of chances. The answer is to continue to limit chances, but bear down a little more offensively.Captain Henrik Zetterberg doesnt think it is time to start taking risks.I dont think you want to change the way you play in the neutral zone or in your own end, he said. I think we just have to find ways, again, to get more pucks on net and that comes down to us forwards, it comes down to our defensemen.Several players are in goal-scoring slumps. Gustav Nyquist has one goal in his past 25 games. He and Tomas Tatar have scored just four goals each. Riley Sheahan has no goals in 31 games.The Ducks have won seven of their last 10, including a 4-3 win at the Boston Bruins on Thursday night, despite giving up two goals in 13 seconds in the first period.That put Anaheim down 2-0, 13 minutes into the game and Ducks Randy Carlyle called a timeout.To me, I think Ive been negligent in a couple (prior) situations, Carlyle told the Los Angeles Daily News. Two goals in 13 seconds -- hey, we have to settle this thing down. Thats all we tried to do.Just stop, guys. Stop whats going on. Reset ourselves. Go back into what we do. Do our thing.Rickard Rakell scored the tiebreaking and game-winning goal early in the second period and Andrew Cogliano, Kevin Bieksa and Josh Manson also scored. Jonathan Bernier made 31 saves.Anaheim captain Ryan Getzlaf would not divulge what Carlyle said during the timeout.Its a secret, Getzlaf said. I cant say. Cant tell. Its the same thing every coach does. Its a matter of calming down and playing our game. Were not trying to reinvent the wheel out there. We just werent playing up to our caliber.You can stop the momentum a little bit and our guys did a good job responding. Wholesale White Sox Jerseys .C. -- Charlotte Bobcats coach Steve Clifford said after all of these years in the NBA hes still amazed at some of the things LeBron James does. Chicago White Sox Gear . 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EUGENE, Ore. -- Oregon coach Mark Helfrich suggested that quarterbacks Dakota Prukop and Justin Herbert are competing to start against No. 5 Washington on Saturday.Prukop has started this season for the Ducks, who have lost their last three games. Last week in a 51-33 loss at Washington State, Herbert led Oregon on its final drive, capping it with a 4-yard keeper for a touchdown.Helfrich commented on the competition during his weekly press conference Tuesday, following a report on DuckTerritory.com that Herbert, a freshman, would start against the Huskies.When asked whether Prukop remained the teams starter, Helfrich said, Um, yeah, I mean were still competing, were still competing.Prukop, a graduate transfer from Montana State, has thrown for 1,173 yards and eight touchdowns this season with two interceptions.He completed 14 of 22 passes for 132 yards and one interception against Washington State. The week before, he threw an interception in the end zone on the final drive of Oregons 41-38 loss at Autzen Stadium to Colorado.Herbert has appeared in two games, competing three of five passes for 70 yards. But he turned heads against the Cougars when he led the eighht-play, 85-yard final drive that ended with his touchdown.dddddddddddd.A local prospect out of Sheldon High School in Eugene, Herbert worked his way up the depth chart in fall camp. He beat out Terry Wilson and Travis Jonsen for the backup job.Everywhere across the board theres competition, Helfrich said. Naturally that position (quarterback) gets a lot of blame and a lot of credit, Helfrich said. Were making adjustments everywhere.Oregon has won 12 straight games against Washington, which is undefeated and coming off a statement-making 44-6 victory over Stanford on Friday night.Helfrich also addressed the situation with safety Troy Dye, who did not make the trip to Pullman. Because Oregon doesnt address injuries, there was some speculation that it was a disciplinary action.Theres no discipline of any kind. I dont know how this got out there. If a guy is disciplined well announce it and make a note, Helfrich said. By the same token, we dont talk about injuries and availability, so you can probably put two and two together on that one. ' ' '