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Blake Wheeler needed a lot of patience to score overtime winner

Blake Wheeler holds it. HOLDS IT. HOLDS IT!

Say this for Blake Wheeler: He is a patient man with the puck on his stick.

Here he is scoring an overtime goal for the Winnipeg Jets on Wednesday night in a 5-4 win over the Colorado Avalanche and leaving a path of destruction behind him.

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Bodies flying everywhere. Paul Postma, his teammate, ending up in the net along with the puck. And let's not ignore the angle he shot that from.

Just look at the freeze frame just before he released the shot. Total chaos.

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Eight people in that shot and only three of them were on their feet.

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