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BIGGEST LAUGHS

It was the party you didn’t want to end.

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And if it came down to the Sedins scoring a shootout goal, it may not have.

For so many reasons, the game felt like destiny.

None more than the fact that at regulation’s end, the shots on net were 33-22, in favour of Vegas.

Yes, it was meant to be.

But there was more. So much more.

None of it was better than seeing the Sedins in the shootout, two decisions Travis Green made with a wink.

He would say later he was “rolling the dice” with his choices in the skills competition, a nod to those in the arena and the city who were yearning for it.

In other words, all of us.

In Vancouver we’ve seen the shootout dice rolled enough over the years, we know it always comes up snake eyes for the Sedins.

But on Tuesday, no one cared.

Henrik has never scored a shootout goal in his career. It didn’t come close to changing in his attempt which, let’s be real, was a mess.

He said later he was thinking slap shot all the way. He never even got it off.