Has anyone gotten sleep since that goal by Brock McGinn? I haven’t. Seriously, that game was enough to have killed me, revived me, and send me to heaven all at once. Seventh Heaven, as John Forslund would call it.
But what if that never happened? What if McGinn never gotten to that trickling puck and the game ended in regulation 4-3 Washington instead of a heart-throbbing double overtime thriller that sees the Carolina Hurricanes take a plane ride north to take on the Islanders instead of south to clear their lockers?
That is the question and more that I will answer today for some of the fans that were not as convinced as Justin Williams that the Carolina Hurricanes can come out of a game seven against the Stanley Cup champions with a win and a ticket to the second round.