Celebration Day at the United Center kicked off with a stirring 10-minute tribute to Duncan Keith that included a message from his 5-year-old son, Colton. “Congratulations on your 1,000th game with the Chicago Blackhawks,” Colton said at the beginning of a highlight video set to Aerosmith’s Dream On. “I’m proud of you, dad, and I love you.” It hardly stopped there as Brent Seabrook, Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane, Patrick Sharp and Adam Burish gave (mostly) loving video tributes to their friend and teammate. “When it’s all said and done with this game we can get back, and maybe (our) kids will play together and will be another Keith and Seabrook out there,” Seabrook said. The Hawks then managed to put a bow on Saturday’s festivities by beating St. Louis 4-3 in overtime on a sensational goal by Alex DeBrincat with nine seconds remaining. It was DeBrincat’s second goal of the game, the other coming in the third period to tie the game at 3-3. Came Ward came up huge by stuffing Brayden Schenn with 3:58 to go in overtime. Ward finished with 35 saves and the Hawks improved to 3-0-2. All five of their games have gone to OT. The Blues got 2 goals from Schenn — the second at 4:47 of the third period that gave St. Louis a 3-2 lead — and another from David Perron. Artem Anisimov and Patrick Kane scored for the Hawks, who dominated play most of the night and outshot St. Louis 39-22 through… [Read full story]
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