DETROIT � The Detroit Red Wings got exactly what they needed: a big win and long break.

After hearing how tired and beat up they were through four games of the Stanley Cup finals, the defending champions busted out with a devastating display of offense and defense and rolled to a 5-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night that put them a win away from another championship.
The veteran-laden Red Wings lead the series 3-2 and are closing in on their 12th Stanley Cup title and fifth in 12 seasons. Detroit can wrap this one up Tuesday night in Pittsburgh.
�It�s a huge win,� Red Wings coach Mike Babcock said. �The biggest part is the extra days off. That�s the best thing that we�ve got to this point.
�We�ll be a better team.�
Detroit�s two-game losing streak in Pittsburgh quickly became a distant memory as the Red Wings returned to the friendly confines of Joe Louis Arena and blew away the supposedly fresher Penguins.
The home team is 5-0 in the rematch of last year�s finals, so the Penguins still have that going for them.
�When you don�t play well at all, you have nothing to do but improve, and we have to,� Pittsburgh captain Sidney Crosby said. �The situation is pretty clear for us. We have to go home and be desperate now.�
Pavel Datsyuk made his mark in his first appearance in eight games, notching two assists, drawing a key penalty, and knocking leading scorer Evgeni Malkin to the ice. The Red Wings made the Penguins pay for a lack of discipline by going 3 for 9 on the power play. Detroit was 1 for 10 on the power play coming into Game 5.
Datsyuk even shook off a slash from Max Talbot on his sore right foot.
�When I play more, I�m more comfortable,� said Datsyuk, who logged 17� minutes of ice time. �It�s a little bit hard to start with the final series when I miss a couple of games, but I�m ready to play more.�
Chris Osgood, on the verge of his fourth Stanley Cup championship � third as the Red Wings starting goalie � made 22 saves for his 15th playoff shutout, third on the NHL career list. He earned an assist on Valtteri Filppula�s goal for his fifth career playoff point, and improved to 11-4 in the finals.
Detroit held a 29-22 shots advantage, the first time the home team had the edge.
�The other game is three days away so I don�t know if (the shutout) has much bearing on what�s going to happen in Pittsburgh,� Osgood said. �It�s more important for us to get a little break so we can be at full capacity when we go to Pittsburgh.�
This series looked firmly in the Red Wings� control after they opened with a pair of 3-1 victories, but the Penguins seized momentum with two 4-2 wins that made Detroit appear worn out.
�We had no jump in the last game when they scored all the goals,� Babcock said. �It didn�t look like they had much jump when we scored all the goals. It�s amazing how tired you look when you�re not scoring and they are.�
History suggests the Red Wings will hoist the Cup again as 14 of the 19 previous teams to win Game 5 in a series tied 2-2 have prevailed.
Pittsburgh won Game 5 in the Motor City last year in triple overtime to force the series to six games, but then was eliminated at home. The Penguins are 1-5 in Detroit in the past two finals, and Crosby failed to score a goal in all six games.
�We won in Game 5 in overtime last year and we won a regular-season game here, so I think we�re pretty confident we can do a job here,� Crosby said.
The Red Wings broke it open with four goals in the second period � three in a span of 6:42 � against beleaguered goalie Marc-Andre Fleury, who left after making 16 saves on 21 shots. It wasn�t the bouncy end boards that did him in this time, as they tormented him in the first two games, but rather a suddenly potent power play by the Red Wings.
Filppula started the barrage 1:44 into the second period when he made it 2-0 just 5 seconds after Chris Kunitz served a penalty for interfering with Osgood. That was the only even-strength goal of the period.
Niklas Kronwall pushed the lead to three at 6:11, 18 seconds into Sergei Gonchar�s slashing penalty on Datsyuk. Fellow defenseman Brian Rafalski made it 4-0 at 8:26, and Henrik Zetterberg � last year�s playoff MVP � closed the spurt at 15:40.
That chased Fleury to the bench in favor of backup Mathieu Garon, who made his first playoff appearance since 2004.
�We lost 5-0, so we can�t be happy,� Fleury said.
Datsyuk was sidelined since injuring his foot in Game 2 of the Western Conference finals. He knocked Malkin hard off the puck behind the net and then made the final pass to set up Dan Cleary�s goal at 13:32 of the first period.
�He did very well for being off for as long as he has been,� Rafalski said. �He wasn�t 100 percent Pavel Datsyuk, but I will take 85 percent of Pavel Datsyuk than 100 percent of other guys.�
Cleary scored his seventh goal in 11 games, but he hadn�t registered a point in the finals.
Chants of Datsyuk�s name filled the arena, replaced by calls of �We Want the Cup� as the final minutes ticked down, and others saluting Osgood.
Notes: Detroit is 11-1 at home in the playoffs. ... Malkin, who leads with 35 playoff points, took three of Pittsburgh�s nine minor penalties. ... Red Wings captain Nicklas Lidstrom played in his 233 NHL postseason game, tying former D Scott Stevens for fifth on the career list.