The game finished with a certain player dropping to one knee and tommy-gunning the air in jubilation, after he scored a huge overtime goal in a playoff game. Anyone want to venture a guess who that might have been, in a game featuring the St. Louis Blues and Chicago Blackhawks?
It was Patrick Kane, of course.
With his team one shot away from going home for the summer, one shot away from boxing up their Stanley Cup to ship off to somewhere else, Kane came through again for Chicago. His wraparound goal on Blues goalie Brian Elliott—right after he'd been stopped on the other side of the net on a first scoring attempt—early in the second overtime beat the Blues 4-3 and kept the defending Cup champs alive for at least one more game.
Chicago still trails the best-of-seven Western Conference quarterfinal series three games to two, but has Game 6 at home Saturday night.
"We didn't have the best first overtime, but came out and got a couple chances in the second one and I was able to put one away," Kane told NBCSN after the game. "I just tried to make a move and get something at the net."
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