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Brouwer places the Blues on the top, Blackhawks are out
Chicago’s out of the post-season, their hold on the Stanley Cup gone.
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Said captain David Backes, “I think he might have blown that in with his breath if he didn’t get it with his backhand there”.
Failure. It’s the word being thrown around the Windy City as the Blackhawks failed in their quest to become the first team to win back-to-back Stanley Cups since Detroit (1997 and 1998).
You lose Game 7 when Troy Brouwer scores a greasy goal in the third period and Brent Seabrook hits two posts at the other end – that’s hockey.
“We put ourselves in an very bad spot a little while ago”, Chicago coach Joel Quenneville said Sunday. “That’s the draw and we didn’t get it done”.
It is the first time the Blues advanced past the first round since 2012, when they beat San Jose in five games but then lost four straight to Los Angeles.
St. Louis were determined to stop the rot. “We just try to get them excited whatever way we can about playing the right way”.
The Blues have blown a 3-1 series lead just once, in 2003 to Vancouver in the first round.
Patrick Kane was stellar throughout, earning an Art Ross Trophy for the most productive regular season of his career.
“Me? I’m not Mark Messier, not one of the top point guys of all time”, said the defenceman.
Nashville Predators center Ryan Johansen (92) celebrates with left wing James Neal (18) after Neal scored against the Anaheim Ducks in the second period of Game 6 in an NHL hockey first-round Stanley Cup playoff series Monday, April 25, 2016, in Nashville, Tenn.
“It’s fun having short summers … obviously we’re going to have a longer one now”, said Hawks’ defenceman Duncan Keith, who played 33 1/2 minutes. That sort of says something when teams are lining up for you. “It was close the whole way”. Stastny threaded a cross-ice pass through Chicago’s Artemi Anisimov onto the stick of Fabbri, who quickly found Brouwer open in front.
Hitchcock defended his use of star forward Vladimir Tarasenko, whose ice time was down in Game 6.
Ken Hitchcock said it was like watching mini-golf, if only there were 19,935 frothing fans and a handful of jobs hanging on Troy Brouwer knocking in a five-footer with Corey Crawford scrambling to be the windmill on the green.
“I don’t know if this is a milestone, but it’s a hump”, Hitchcock explained.
So, they’ve got a big experience edge: just three Blues have played a Game 7. It was Lehtera’s first National Hockey League playoff goal. Jori Lehtera started things off right away with a goal only a minute into the period.
The only penalty called in the first two periods led to the tying goal. This is the first time since 2009 that the Chicago Blackhawks have failed to make it to at least the Western Conference Finals. The 37-year-old Hossa has 149 career playoff points, including 52 goals.
Their 3-2 lead from Brouwer was just about the only one the Blues did not blow in the series.
Shea Weber sealed the win with a late an empty-net goal. Mattias Ekholm also scored a goal, and Pekka Rinne made 26 saves for the win.
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“Last night before the game, (assistant coach) Kirk Muller came in and gave each of the assistant coaches a card on who was going to score the game victor”, said Chase. They return to Anaheim where they lost their last three last spring in the Western Conference finals to eventual Stanley Cup champ Chicago.