Tough to say the Chicago Blackhawks didn’t deserve to win this Game 7 when they won it twice.
After Niklas Hjlamarsson’s bid to end the second-round series was rejected — not by Jimmy Howard, who watched the puck blow by him and into the goal, but by official Stephen Walkom, who had important, coincidental minors to call — the Chicago Blackhawks regrouped during a third intermission few in the hockey world felt was necessary.
A little over four minutes after the puck dropped in overtime, Brent Seabrook sent the Blackhawks to the Western Conference final for real.
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Full story Brent Seabrook scores the winner, and it counts, as Blackhawks take Game 7 in OT