Albom: Hockey Season Ends After Thrilling, Sudden-Death Wings Loss

This fight is over, writes Mitch Albom in the Free Press. The season is done.

"The Blackhawks win Game 7, in overtime, in gut-wrenching fashion, final score, 2-1, on a goal by Brent Seabrook that just grazed Niklas Kronwall’s shin and flew past Jimmy Howard.

"Fight over. Ain’t gonna be no rematch, because the sands are shifting, Detroit will be in the Eastern Conference next season, and the only way it will face Chicago again in the playoffs is if the Stanley Cup itself hangs in the balance.

"That’s OK. It’ll take Detroit fans a while to recover from this one.

“I didn’t even have time to think,” said a dejected Kronwall in the locker room after the loss. “I knew right away that it went off of me.”