Calgary Beats Detroit in Incredible Comeback

Last night, the Calgary Flames played the Detroit Red Wings and there were a number of reasons why I didn’t watch all of it.  The first problem is that the Flames have been sucking majorly on this road trip and the other is that I just hate Detroit.  My son kept checking the score and my non-hockey loving husband kept complaining that he didn’t want to watch the game and, for once, I agreed with him.  The last time we checked, there was about 8 minutes left in the game and the Wings were up 4-2. 

I slumped down onto my couch and starting looking through the PVR for stuff we could watch after dinner.  I was really disappointed because the Flames were continuing their losing streak and I just didn’t want to hear about it.  I saw my son sneak upstairs to check the score and he almost stumbled down the stairs in his rush to tell me that the Flames beat the Wings 6-5.  He’s a bit of a prankster so I wasn’t even sure he wasn’t pulling my leg but he wasn’t – I checked the score myself and kicked myself for not watching the game but how could I know?

Anyway, here’s how it went down.  Detroit was looking as though the game was over (fans were already leaving) but wth 3:22 left in the third, Jamie Lundmark (Calgary) scored to bring the score up to 4-3.  Then, less than a minute later, Olli Jokinen (Calgary) scored and finally, with 1:20 left on the clock, Lundmark struck again to put the Flames in the lead!!!!  Just 38 seconds later, Dan Cleary (Detroit) put one behind Mikka Kiprusoff (Calgary) and tied the game.  No one scored in overtime so the game went to a shootout. 

In all honesty, I’m happy that I didn’t watch this game because I already get overly stressed during shootouts but this would have been brutal.  In the end, only Pavel Datsyuk (Detroit) was successful while both Mike Cammalleri and Jokinen put one in the back of the net for Calgary.

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I know it’s just one game but I feel like turning around to all those commentators on trade day who said the Flames weren’t on the Wings level and telling them to eat it.  You don’t know how a team is going to play with new lines and players so it’s stupid to underestimate them.

image: TSN