Blackhawks React To No-Goal Decision, Loss

By Chris Emma-

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Time seemed to stand still as the Blackhawks awaited their fate Monday night.

It seemed that Andrew Shaw had pushed the game-winner in overtime past a sprawling Mike Smith, but the Arizona goalie wedged the puck against the post. Officials reviewed the play near the end of overtime, seeing if the puck crossed the line.

Players from both sides stood staring at the videoboard inside United Center. Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville and his good friend, Coyotes coach Dave Tippett, went back and forth on the decision.

Minutes later, the decision came in: no goal. The United Center exploded with displeasure. The Blackhawks were frustrated, too. They would fall in a shootout to the Coyotes, 3-2.

"Thought it was in, but obviously it wasn't," defenseman Duncan Keith said. "What are you doing to do about it?"

Chicago still earned a point for the contest, but this was the kind of hard-fought game that could have gone either way. The Blackhawks wanted that second point. In reality, they were inches away.

Count Marian Hossa — who had the Blackhawks' two goals on Monday — among those disappointed in the Chicago locker room.

"That's a tough one," said Hossa, who has tallied the Blackhawks' last four goals. "It seemed on the Jumbotron that the puck was coming to the goal line. They were saying it was no goal. It's a tough one. Too bad we didn't win in a shootout."

The Blackhawks had a chance to earn that second point in a shootout but couldn't pull through. It just adds to the disappointment knowing the game may have been won in overtime.

"You can argue," Quenneville said. "You can argue, you can argue and you can argue again."

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