I got home with 10 minutes left in the Hurricanes game, with the Hawks up 2-1 at home. I watched. Both teams were playing decent, not great, hockey. Carolina looked increasingly desperate, and, as with all such games, the last few minutes were spent with the Blackhawks playing prevent and the 'Canes playing hard. Then, with 1:03 to go, Toews took a Center Ice hooking penalty. And I started to panic a little. Then, with about 30 seconds left, the Blackhawks had dealt with an onslaught, and some Hawk had the puck on his stick in front of his own net....and fell down. It was like all of a sudden this amateur hour thing happened, and for about 5 seconds, Hawks were fanning on the puck, skating right through it, and falling down. Culminating, of course, in the 'Canes getting the puck back and tying it at 19:33 of the third.
Yes, yes, the overtime was very very exciting. Fantastic goaltending on both ends of the ice. And in the 4th round of the shootout, Chicago did something it hasn't been great at lately - they won at home. And they denied Carolina their second point.
But I was 27 seconds from happier.
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