It’s win or go home as the Blackhawks visit the Blues in St. Louis for a deciding Game 7 as part of their Round 1 Stanley Cup playoff series live Monday night from the Scottrade Center.
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Troy Brouwer scored with 11 and a half minutes to go in the third period, and his goal was enough to eliminate his former team and push the Blues into a second round matchup with the Dallas Stars. First, though, the Blues must deal with the Blackhawks, who are averaging five goals a game over the past two and might be the hottest team going in the Western Conference right now.
Chicago now has a 2-2 record in such situations, and in both seasons they’ve won a Game 7, they’ve also won the Stanley Cup.
After holding a commanding 3-1 series lead over the Blackhawks, the Blues find themselves in a victor take all Game 7.
This breaking story will be updated with reaction throughout the night. [Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images]Both teams have held a disdain for each other for years and now they stand in the way of each other’s goal of raising the Stanley Cup trophy.
“We didn’t get too down”, explained Weise. “For a while people were saying this series looked like it was probably going to come down to one goal at the end, and it did”. We’ve got an opportunity in front of us.
“Ville Nieminen once told me, ‘If you want pizza, you go to Pizza Hut… if you want to score goals, you go to the net, ‘” Lehtera said.
I mean, it’s great Hitchcock likes the fire coming from his best player, but it’s entirely created by his own bad coaching on the game’s biggest stage.
This season, the Blues were 20-0-1 when leading after the first period, but apparently the Blackhawks didn’t get this memo. This is what we play for: these type of games, and these series and playing late into the year.
Chicago Blackhawks’ head coach Joel Quenneville spoke of the team’s relaxed nature (courtesy of CBS Local Chicago) at the end of Game 6.
ST. LOUIS – The three Chicago Blackhawks most responsible for one of the best runs of playoff hockey in the salary-cap era were the three who stayed behind. Game 7 will be exciting, a do-or-die game between one of the NHL’s biggest rivalries. He’s going to win the Hart Trophy.
That’s not unusual for NHL playoff hockey, which annually offers the most exciting games and upsets of any major USA sports league.
“They’ve started to get a lot of zone time”, said Blues coach Ken Hitchcock. But Chicago enters the seventh game with momentum after winning two consecutive games and rebounding from a two-goal deficit in game six.
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The home team has won every game in this series. “No matter who we were playing, we thought we had a good chance to win”. Corey Crawford has allowed 16 goals on 179 shots faced. Defensively, the Blues are yielding 2.4 goals per game and ranking 2nd in penalty kill with 85.1 percent. Edmundson played in the first four games of the series before being a healthy scratch in Games 5 and 6….
