Complaints about Kopecky's goal amuse Seabrook

Philadelphia complained mildly Saturday night that Tomas Kopecky's winning goal in Game 1's third period shouldn't have been allowed to happen.

Apparently Kopecky, sitting on the boards waiting to start his fateful shift, was hit by a wayward puck which requires the play to be blown dead.

Instead, Kopecky jumped on the ice and wound up beating Flyers backup Brian Boucher with a sharp-angled shot.

This mistake was news to several Blackhawks on Sunday, including top defenseman Brent Seabrook.

As a Canadian TV type explained the issue, Seabrook waited a few seconds before offering a beautiful deadpan summation of the situation. Famed comedian Steven Wright would have been proud.

"Break, then," Seabrook said. "That must have been our penalty."

His latter sentence referred to the previous topic of conversation - Philadelphia's improbably penalty-free showing in Game 1.

Seabrook also explained his peculiar role on Kopecky's game-winner.

The blurry highlights showed Seabrook taking an awkward spill across the blue line, but didn't reveal how he managed to keep the puck alive inside the zone for Kris Versteeg and Dave Bolland to feed to Kopecky.

"I was sort of skating backward because I saw it was a bad pass," Seabrook said. "I put both my feet together (in a "V" shape) and it hit me right in the middle of the feet, and I guess the skates hit together and I started falling backwards. Turned out all right."