DALLAS – Through bad luck and poor play, the Vancouver Canucks did enough the last few weeks to kill their National Hockey League season. But faced with its mortality on Tuesday, the team incredibly – miraculously – extended it by at least one day.
The Canucks scored five times in the third period, including an inconceivable three-goal surge in the final minute, before beating the Dallas Stars 6-5 on Kiefer Sherwood’s goal in overtime.
“I don’t know what just happened,” Vancouver goalie Thatcher Demko said.
Neither did anyone else because no team in NHL history had ever won a game by overcoming a three-goal deficit in the final minute of regulation time.
“We didn’t quit,” winger Conor Garland said. “We…