Wings breeze into Western finals

Detroit reached the NHL's Western Conference finals by sweeping Colorado 4-0 in their best-of-seven series.

Johan Franzen's second hat-trick in three games helped the Red Wings secure a 8-2 game-four victory in Denver.

Henrik Zetterberg added two goals and two assists, Mikael Samuelsson also scored twice, Tomas Holmstrom once, and Pavel Datsyuk collected three assists.

Detroit now await the winner of the series between San Jose and Dallas - the Stars currently lead 3-1.