The Chicago Blackhawks rallied from a 2-0 deficit and defeated the Canucks 6-3 in Vancouver on Saturday night, evening their Western Conference Semi-Finals at a game apiece.
The Blackhawks are quickly becoming the "Comeback Kids" in this year's playoffs, seemingly being able to come back from all these deficits.
Remember Chicago rallying to steal the first two games of the Calgary series in the previous round, and Thursday night's opener against Vancouver, when the Hawks rallied from a 3-0 deficit in the third?
But this time, Vancouver started counting their chickens when the score was 2-0 in the first period on Saturday night. Or at least, the Canucks' radio broadcasting team did.
After Alex Edler scored the Canucks' second goal on a 5-on-3 man advantage, radio colour commentator Tom Larscheid started celebrating--and basically proclaiming a victory for Vancouver.
He started saying nonsense about Hawks coach Joel Quenneville having to pull goalie Nikolai Khabibulin soon because the Canucks have his number and how Vancouver has gotten into the Bulin Wall's head.
Well, well, well... I wonder who's gotten into whose head by the end of the night.
The Blackhawks exploded against Canucks captain Roberto Luongo, beating him FIVE times in the second half of the contest to take a 5-2 lead.
Vancouver scored a late goal to make it a two-goal deficit before the Hawks clinched it with an empty-netter.
Chicago has already ended Calgary's season... The Blackhawks might as well do that to Vancouver--Canada's last hope for the Stanley Cup this spring--too.
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