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Hawks Have a Sharp Overtime Ending

Written by: EricC on 11th March 2010

The Chicago Blackhawks pulled out the Overtime win against the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday night with the Sudden Death goal coming from Patrick Sharp. Sharp also had the first goal of the game, off an assist from his buddy, Adam Burish. This was Burish’s first game of the season, missing all the prior games due to surgery on his knee done in the off-season.

It only took Sharp two and a half minutes into the game to put Chicago up on the board. The Blackhawks held this one goal lead until nearly five minutes into the second period when the Kings tied the game up. Less than three minutes later, Los Angeles took the lead during a Power Play. Luckily, Kris Versteeg tied the game up at two a piece before the halfway point of the game. With no more goals from either team during the rest of Regulation Time, the game went into Overtime; Sharp sank the game winning goal during the second minute.

Antti Niemi started in the net against the Kings, only giving up two goals. Niemi had 27 saves in the game, and one of the goals he gave up was during a Power Play. Recently, there has been much criticism over the Hawks goal tending, and whether or not they will be able to bring us the Cup; however, Blackhawks fans will just have to wait in anticipation to know the answer to that question.

The Chicago Blackhawks will travel to Philadelphia for this Saturdays game against Flyers. The game will take place on March. 13 at Noon, CT.