The Wings/Blackhawks game today was epic for a mid-January show down. It had every feeling of a playoff game — heavy hits, great scoring chances, thwarted scoring chances, back and forth scoring, and even a heated duel of fisticuffs. It’s a shame this game had to end, this was exactly the type of game that could have gone on for multiple overtimes. But in the regular season it comes down to a good ol’ fashioned Texas shootout should neither team score in the five minutes provided for sudden death overtime.
After you watch the shootout in its entirety, I think you’d agree that if there were judges scoring the skill of these goals, Detroit would have won. Unfortunately, that’s a crazy idea and not how the game was decided. So the Blackhawks won in the sudden death round, thanks to a goal by Patrick Sharpe. A great game, nonetheless. Feast your eyes on how the shootout played out:
And because I know you couldn’t get enough of Datsyuk’s and Bertuzzi’s goals, here they are again:
Datsyuk can thank the Swedes for that shot idea (H/T @blaxicopurress):
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