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Can Crawford get some help before overtime?
Can Crawford get some help before overtime?

Patrick Kane went forehand. Then backhand. Then top shelf. Hello, Western Conference final. Kane launched the Blackhawks into their fourth conference final in the last six seasons with a sweet and completely expected overtime game-winner. Sweet because he followed a fluky bounce off a stanchion and deked Minnesota goalie Ilya Bryzgalov and the annoying and sometimes scary Wild into next season. Completely expected because that’s what Kane does in these kinds of moments. In seven potential clinching Game 6s since 2009, Kane now has 11 goals, three of them game-winners, meaning he has ended almost half of the matches with some kind of sudden brilliance. Indeed, the Hawks have...