Corey Crawford

2013 Stanley Cup Finals: How Chicago and Boston Win Their Games

The Boston Bruins and Chicago Blackhawks have not failed in the expectation that the 2013 Stanley Cup Finals would be a clash of titans. The first four games have featured three overtime games (one triple overtime), two games with seven or more goals, two games with five goals combined, big hits, touch-passing plays and everything

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Stanley Cup Finals: Blackhawks Ride Rollercoaster to 6-5 OT Victory in Boston

For the third time in four games, the Chicago Blackhawks and Boston Bruins needed overtime to determine a winner, but Game 4 hardly resembled the prior three. The electric action featured eleven goals, just one fewer than the total racked up in the first three games. Star netminders Tuukka Rask and Corey Crawford finally cracked, leading to a deluge of goals capped off by Brent Seabrook’s OT winner.

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2013 NHL Finals: A Statistical Look at How the Chicago Blackhawks Took a 1-0 Series Lead

Game one of the Stanley Cup Finals between the Boston Bruins and Chicago Blackhawks, in all honesty, was one of the best hockey games I’ve watched in recent memory. For some reason, Keith Primeau’s overtime winner in the 5th overtime of game four from the 2000 Stanley Cup Finals came to mind. This game had

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2013 Stanley Cup Finals: Power Ranking the Bruins’ and Blackhawks’ Top Conn Smythe Candidates

With the Los Angles Kings’ double overtime loss on Saturday night, Jonathan Quick’s campaign to become the first back-to-back Conn Smythe Trophy winner since Mario Lemieux came to a crashing halt. As a result, we now know the next player to earn the coveted title of playoff MVP will be either a Blackhawk or a Bruin.

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