With Thursday night’s double-overtime goal to give the Chicago Blackhawks a 4-3 win in Game 5 of an opening-round Stanley Cup Playoffs matchup against the St. Louis Blues, Patrick Kane now sits tied for third place in all-time playoffs overtime goals with five. Kane joins Glenn Anderson in third, and trails Maurice ‘Rocket’ Richard (six) and Joe Sakic (eight) on the all-time list.
With Game 6 set for a 7 p.m. Central time start tonight (hooray!), let’s take a look and rank all five of Kane’s overtime winners. Simple criteria for these rankings:
- Style of the goal
- Importance of the goal
- The celly