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For further information regarding Alpha Group, visit ConsultantsPaul Rogers/Kelly GoughTel: 44 (0)113 242 rTNSClare CockroftTel: 44 (0)114 292 orTNSBeka HortonTel: 1 703 453 Copyright Business Wire 2009. It's been said that a team's stars are "the guys that stir the drink."They are the go-to guys, the clutch players, the tip of the spear; they're the ones who will take you to the top.This is true.However,secondary scorers in the NHL are a lot like ice at a party you can never have too much.For the Detroit Red Wings, guys like Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg are theirmetaphorical swizzle sticks.The only problem with this is other teams know it, and they know that shutting them down gives you a great chance at winning the game.This task is made especially easier when Detroit is missing players like Johan Franzen and Valtteri Filppula.Two star forwards, talented as they are, are a hell of a lot easier to contain than four.Which brings us back to that proverbial ice: secondary scorers.The Red Wings' 4-1 win over Dallas on Monday was facilitated by players like Darren Helm, Drew Miller, and Todd Bertuzzi players that don't immediately come to mind as the guys you have to watch out for when playing the Wings.Continuing to get contributions from players like this is going to be absolutely essential if Detroit has designs on playing well enough to get into the playoffs while awaiting the return of Franzen and Filppula.While it's true that "your best players have to be your best players," expecting them to carry your team night in and night out is a recipe for disaster.In years past, the Red Wings have had no shortage of superstars.Yet for every Steve Yzerman, Sergei Fedorov, or Brendan Shanahan, there was also a Doug Brown, a Kris Draper, or a Martin Lapointe. As much as Detroit overwhelmed with mind-bending talent, it never lost sight of the importance of winning by committee.This is the type of trend that needs to be re-established in Detroit.If Zetterberg is in a slump, or if Datsyuk is getting shut down, that can't equate to the team being unable to compete.Admittedly, this is a hard thing to establish, as you can't very well bench your stars in hopes that your role players will step up.However, Detroit needs to look at games like the one against Dallas as a blueprint for success.Dallas did a good job ofcontaining Zetterberg and Datsyuk but failed to pursue guys like Helm and Miller with the same intensity, and it cost them.With any luck, these contributions will become a trend, and Detroit will not only have a way to stir the drinks but the ice to keep them cold.This established, Detroit will be able to turn most oftheir games into a party.. By Daniel Wallis NAIROBI, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Congolese guerrillas and government negotiators must agree a ceasefire before a planned heads of state summit this month, a mediator told delegates at peace talks that resumed in Kenya on Wednesday. Attacks by Tutsi rebels from the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) have uprooted a quarter of a million civilians in Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern North Kivu province since August.

"It will therefore be critical for you, during this session, to reach an understanding concerning a formal and joint cessation of hostilities, or truce, in order to alleviate the human suffering that continues," he said The last round of talks in the Kenyan capital ended on Dec. 20 with the rebels refusing to sign a joint ceasefire, or recommit to their unilateral truce from earlier in the month. The talks to end the four-year conflict resumed after a split emerged in the CNDP on Tuesday when its top military commander openly challenged founder General Laurent Nkunda in an apparent power struggle. The battles triggered a humanitarian disaster in the border region, where fighting between rival guerrillas, militias and government troops has raged on despite a formal end to a wider 1998-2003 war in the former Belgian colony Congo's 17,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force (MONUC) is monitoring the situation closely in case of more clashes after the CNDP's military chief of staff, General Bosco Ntaganda, said he had deposed Nkunda. Senior CNDP military and political representatives rejected his statement.