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Chicago Blackhawks vs. Philadelphia Flyers – Game 3 Review
By admin | June 3, 2010
To give the Philadelphia Flyers a 4-3 victory over Chicago Blackhawks in Game 3, Giroux scored 5:59 into overtime. Of the Stanley Cup finals Wednesday night, cutting the Blackhawks’ series lead to 2-1. On a redirection off Matt Carle’s pass, beating Antti Niemi, Giroux scored to decide the third straight one-goal game in the series.
After dropping the first three games to Boston in the Eastern Conference semifinals, the Flyers already rallied to win a series.
Trying to win their first Stanley Cup title since 1961, the Blackhawks snapped a seven-game winning streak and a seven-game road-winning streak. After Simon Gagne thought he scored the winner, Giroux ended the game moments, only to have replay officials rule the puck did not cross the goal line.
Since 1987, Scott Hartnell had a no-goal overturned by replay to spark the Flyers to their first Cup win. For the Flyers, Danny Briere and Ville Leino also scored whereas Michael Leighton made 24 saves. For the Flyers, Giroux’s goal was the only shot in OT. In the third straight thriller in the series, Niemi stopped 28 shots.
For the Blackhawks, Duncan Keith, Brent Sopel and Patrick Kane scored.
Power-play slap shot by Chris Pronger was deflected by Hartnell, trickled through Niemi and eked past the red line. Defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson’s diving stab at the puck cleared it back onto the nice as the goal horn sounded.
To make it 2-2, Sopel blasted a shot past Leighton from inside, a shot the goalie likely never saw Lukas Krajicek was standing in front of him. Early in the third, Chicago and Philadelphia swapped goals 20 seconds apart to make it 3-3. To win it in regulation, the Flyers seemed determined and pounded Niemi in the third. He delivered by stopping 14 of 15 shots.
The Philadelphia Flyers needed video replay, a couple of times to decide if a goal counted. One of the goals did count whereas the other didn’t.
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