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Hey everybody, welcome back to another post-game show. I'm Jack
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Armstrong and folks, I need a moment here because my
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heart is still doing things it should not be doing
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at 11 at night on a Monday. 4-3 shootout on
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the road in Edmonton. We went to the Western trip
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looking for points and we came home with two wins,
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one overtime loss, and a story I will be telling
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at the local bar for the next three years. If
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you are new around here, this show is part of
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the Afterplay Network, so go check out their other shows
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whenever you want more sports coverage beyond just hockey. Now
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let me tell you what happened, because the way this
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game unfolded is exactly why you fall in love with
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this sport. Picture this. Overtime, nine seconds on the clock,
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Evan Bouchard fires a wrist shot from the slot, and
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you know what that looks like. You have seen that
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goal 50 times this season, and Michal Postava, a 24-year-old
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kid who made his NHL debut last Thursday coming off
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the bench against Vancouver, just reaches over and swallows it whole.
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Nine seconds. That stop kept us alive. Then the shootout
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happens and this kid in his first career NHL start
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stops Connor McDavid. Then Leon Dreisaitl. Then Ryan Nugent Hopkins.
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Three for three. Nobody touched his net in the skills competition.
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That is not a performance. That is a flex. First start,
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first win, and I swear he looked like he was
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waiting for a bus at the end of it. Give
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me that calm in every wing's jersey going forward, please.
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But here is what makes Postava's night so special. He
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did not have to be the hero. The guys in
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front of him gave him a chance to become one
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by doing something this team used to struggle with, which
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is refusing to die. Detroit fell behind three separate times
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in this game and came back every single time. That
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is not a coincidence. That is an identity forming in
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real time. Let
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me walk you through how it played out.
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Edmonton opened the scoring in the first period, and look,
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I will be honest with you, it was an ugly goal.
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Dreisaitl sends a centering pass into the slot, it bounces
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off Podkolzin's skate, then deflects off Carter Mazur's skate before
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crossing the line. Was that hockey skill? No? Did it count?
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Of course it counted. Podkolzin gets credit for his eighth
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of the season. McDavid and Dryzadel extend their point streaks
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to 12 and nine games, respectively. The building erupts. We
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are down one after a period, and that is the
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kind of start that usually means you're watching a blowout
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from a distance. Second period, wings get a power play,
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and this is where it gets fun from a Detroit perspective.
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Lucas Raymond threads a cross-ice pass to Victor Arvidsson in
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the left face-off circle, and Arvidsson rips a one-timer pass
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Tristan Jerry. 8.35 on the clock, 1-1, and Arvidsson is
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screaming in front of the Edmonton fans. You want to
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know why that feels satisfying? Because this man spent last
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season wearing orange and blue in that very building. He
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knows those fans, he knows the dimensions of that rink,
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and he just snapped one into their house. That is
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his fourth power play goal in five total this season.
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So if you ever doubted his fit with Detroit, just
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watch him operate in traffic on special teams. He eats there.
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Now we head into the third tied at one, and
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you would think momentum shifts our way. Nope. Isaac Howard
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buries a power play goal for Edmonton at 418, a
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one-timer from the right circle that goes over Postava's sprawling body.
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First goal since late October last year for the kid,
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and it comes on the night we were hoping to
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steal two points. 2-1 Oilers. Then at 16.32, Colton Dock
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tips a Ryan Shea slap shot past Postava, and the
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video review confirms it despite the high-stick challenge. 3-2 Edmonton.
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We are down again. Third deficit of the night, and
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Edmonton has completely taken over. They outshot us 12-5 in
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that final period. 12-5. That is not a hockey period.
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That is a siege. But the Wings had one more answer.
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Arvidsson digs the puck from behind the net, slides it
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to Emmett Finney in front. And Finney puts it past
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Jerry's right pad. 2-2. Arvidsson has a goal and an
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assist now. The man was absolutely everywhere tonight. And then
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comes the moment I will replay 10,000 times this season.
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Wings pull Postova with about two minutes left. Extra attacker.
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Desperation mode. The puck bounces off a skate and lands
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on Larkin's blade in front of the net. He kicks
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it up onto his stick and shovels it between Jerry's pads.
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77 seconds remaining. 3-3. That is Dylan Larkin being Dylan
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Larkin the puck gets to him. He does not think,
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he just puts it in the net. Some players you
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build around because they do not crack under chaos, and
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Larkin is that guy. Then came overtime, Postava's miracle save
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on Bouchard, and the shootout where Raymond buried the only attempt.
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Twelve career shootout goals for Raymond now, which ties him
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with Todd Bertuzzi and Jiri Hudler for fourth most in
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franchise history. Think about that. Raymond has been here a
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handful of seasons, and he is already sitting next to
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Bertuzzi and Hudler in the record book. Two assists in
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regulation to go with it, a shootout winner, and the quiet,
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steady presence that young players sometimes take years to develop.
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He is special. What does this mean for Detroit? We
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finished the four-game trip 2-1-1, five of a possible eight points.
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A record of five and four with three overtime losses,
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14 points on the board. Compare that to where this
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franchise was at this point a year ago, and you
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start to feel something shifting. Postava's emergence gives the depth
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chart another layer. Gibson is the veteran, but now there
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is a kid showing he can steal games. Detroit is
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back home Thursday night at Little Caesars Arena against the
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Chicago Blackhawks. Nothing like a division rival in a building
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that is vibrating with energy to reset after a trip
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like that. All right, tonight belonged to Postava and Raymond
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and Larkin and Arvidson and Finney. Every one of them mattered.
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I will see you Thursday. Go Wings.