So We Can All Agree That On Principle Alone A Headbutted Overtime Goal Should Count Right? Also, Is Everyone Still Alive?

So in case you were asleep, we had another wild 3 Overtime Blackhawks playoff game last night that stretched into the wee hours of the morning, Chief will have a full in depth recap in a minute here but thought it would be an injustice to not start with some Blackhawks after we all fought through that (sat on the couch and ate). 2 big takeaways from last night.

1. Playoff Overtime Hockey is and always will be a one of a kind sports experience. I’m not saying there aren’t experiences in Sports that aren’t as intense or as excruciating but there is nothing quite like overtime hockey. People always say it’s like a roller coaster but I couldn’t disagree more. When you ride on a roller coaster you at least see the dips and dives coming. In playoff hockey nothing makes sense. You start with all the hope in the world and with each passing minute you slowly melt into this ball of a human that is just trying to exhibit the basic forms of life. Breathing and keeping your eyes open, that’s all you can be bothered with by the time you fall into the 3rd overtime, everything else is superfluous. There are chances that make your heart stop, there are your team’s chances that let you breathe for a moment and a bunch of chaos in between. And the worst part is these games always end on a deflection or something weird happening. The Ducks and Hawks had a million good scoring chances in those 3 overtimes. Open nets, missed one timers, pucks through the crease, 3 on 2 rushes, you name it, and how did it end? A Brent Seabrook shot through traffic that probably hit 10 things on the way to the net. Find me a roller coaster that stops in the middle of it’s run in a completely unexpected manner, you can’t.

2. Why the hell does a headbutted goal not count? If you missed it, in the second Overtime Andrew Shaw seemingly won the game on this play.

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Now I understand why it’s illegal in the rule book but that’s not what I’m arguing. I’m arguing that it SHOULD be legal just on the principle that it is the single most “playoff hockey” goal of all time. Shaw doing whatever it took to score a goal in Overtime. He couldn’t hit it with his stick that high in the air, he couldn’t hit it with his hand, so why not just play a totally different sport all together? Use your head and headbutt that motherfucker in. That should count, maybe not in the regular season but in playoffs it should count, because it’s exactly what playoff hockey is, a scrappy shitshow of a hockey game where everyone does whatever they can to survive. Make it the Andrew Shaw rule and write it into the rules, no one will disagree.

Now someone do me a favor and basic betch me up, all the coffee in the world!