Emotional Scene Unfolds as Schenn Brothers Embrace at Center Ice With Parents Looking On
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Following an unbelievable finish to Sunday's game, the Schenn brothers embraced in the postgame handshake in Winnipeg while their parents looked on from the stands.
The Winnipeg Jets have officially advanced in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, beating the St. Louis Blues 4-3 in double overtime in Sunday night's Game 7 at Canada Life Centre.
Just when it seemed the Blues were poised to advance, the Jets roared back to life with a pair of goals in the final 2 minutes of regulation, including the tying goal from Cole Perfetti with just moments left; captain Adam Lowry scored the winner in 2OT.
During the ceremonial postgame handshakes, Blues captain Brayden Schenn and Jets defenseman Luke Schenn embraced in an emotional scene with their parents in the stands watching:
Brayden, disappointed from the loss in a relatively quiet Blues locker room afterward, explained that the embrace was "brotherly love".
Just brotherly love. We're just competing. That's what we do. I love Luke, and he'd say the same thing about me and it's nothing offside, it's just the game and at the end of the day, we're competing for our teams for the Stanley Cup.
Both brothers were seen jawing at one another during the Blues' blowout win in Game 6 in St. Louis that forced Game 7, something that could be chalked up to simply being caught in the heat of the moment and of the fierce competition that is the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
They also became the 1st pair of brothers in the NHL to compete against one another in a Game 7 since Scott and Rob Niedermayer did so for the New Jersey Devils and Anaheim Mighty Ducks in 2003.
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