NHL Friday: Can struggling Sharks snap Chicago streak?

Dallas fared well without their energetic third line, scoring late in the period to narrow the Canucks’ lead to 3-2.

I think us hockey fans outside of Vancouver tend to take the Sedin twins for granted. They’ve been around for awhile now and their consistent greatness night-in and night-out is just expected at this point.

That was followed by a pretty cool moment. After his record was announced, the fans in Vancouver gave their beloved centerman a rousing standing ovation for a good three minutes of play. When play was finally stopped, Henrik acknowledged the crowd with a wave.

Instead it seems the deke was so simultaneously powerful and graceful that the universe couldn’t handle it and gravity was broken for a split second as the puck sailed out of play. (That’s an unconfirmed rumor, but we trust our sources.) The puck sailed out of the rink, into the sky and landed in Russia, where this dashboard camera caught it reentering the atmosphere:

It will mark the second of three meetings between the teams this season.

When the clubs last met on Feb. 5, the circumstances were significantly different. Billed as a meeting of the top two teams in the Western Conference, the Blackhawks managed to best the Sharks by a final score of 5-3.