Thanks to an overtime goal by Darren Helm, the Detroit Red Wings were able to advance to the Stanley Cup Finals, where they will face the Pittsburgh Penguins in a rematch of 2008. They did this despite the fact that they were without Pavel Datsyuk, Niklas Lidstrom, and Kris Draper. Pretty impressive.
We needed to beat Chicago. They called Kronwall gutless. They said that our goaltending was suspect. They said that our coach hated one of our defensemen.
Chris Osgood proved the second myth wrong by saving 30 of 31 shots on Wednesday night. He was solid. Even the biggest of Osgood's critics were silenced. The man stood on his head. Although the rest of the team played well, none of them, with the exception of Darren Helm, brought their A-game the way Osgood did.
Speaking of Helm, how 'bout that young center? The future Kris Draper killed about half a minute of a penalty, practically all by himself. Fighting off Blackhawk after Blackhawk, he was even able to get a shot off. Play-by-play announcer Mike Emrick called it the best single man penalty kill he had seen since Zetterberg's famous works in last year's Stanley Cup Final.
Helm continued to play like a beast, and was eventually rewarded when he scored the game-winning goal in overtime.
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