DALLAS -- Dallas finally went into the locker room with a lead in the Western Conference finals. But the top-seeded Red Wings responded quickly, scoring less than a minute into the third period of Game 4 to tie it.

For the desperate Stars, trying to avoid a sweep and elimination on home ice Wednesday night, it might have been easy to give in, avoid a trip back to Detroit and get the summer vacation started. Instead, Dallas came back strong and will play again.

"When you're in the situation we are, where there's no tomorrow, you might as well keep playing," coach Dave Tippett said. "The guys talked about it, as soon as it happened on the bench, 'That's not going to deter us tonight.' . . . You just love to see that, the character."

Mike Modano's one-timer from the middle of the circles on a power play with 14½ minutes left put Dallas back in front, and Brenden Morrow provided some cushion when the Stars captain scored from about the same spot with 5:26 left. Marty Turco had 14 of his 33 saves in the third period.

Detroit lost for the first time since April 16, ending a nine-game winning streak that was the franchise's longest in a single postseason.