I think we are going to hear a lot about "The 4th win is the toughest" "Killer Instinct" "Desperate Canucks" etc etc in the next couple of days.
But if I have learned anything from this team this year its that they don't react normally to anything. They fight in the last 10 minutes of a game when they are down by 4. They never believe they are out of it. In an intense playoff game they rib Johnny about his parents being on the Kiss Cam.
I look back to that "Shift" in game one that led to Russel's GWG. If you were to go back and watch the flow of that game you would have sworn that was a team down by one playing desperate to tie it up in the last minute. Nope, they were tied. It could have gone to overtime, but they played that shift like their playoff lives depended on it, and they were tied in game one.
They may not be the most experienced, biggest, or most talented team on any given night but they most definitely have the X factor. However long this run lasts, I will never believe they are out of it until they actually are.
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