Need a Defibrillator After Tonight’s Heartbreaker!
The Hawks got a slow start tonight, but boy did they pick the puck up and run with it in the 2nd period!
Cam Barker’s 2nd period bad pass to…who? Dave Bolland?…hard to say… got picked off by Olli Jokinen for the goal. Barker would redeem himself with his goal scored on Kipper in the last 4 minutes of the 2nd.
But Verbeauty’s PP goal in the last 7 minutes of the 2nd period was a thing of…well…beauty. Clearly Steegy is earning his Calder nom. And Verbeauty had the assist (as did Pahlsson) on the game-tying goal in the last 40 seconds of the 2nd when Dustin Byfuglien scored. Way to go boys! What an effort!
Still, the Hawks would fade in the 3rd period. Patrick Kane was checked hard for the puck in the final minute of the game, which allowed the turnover that would score the empty-netter to end the game, 6-4 in the final.