Patrick Kane stood out for Chicago once again, setting up two goals and extending his point streak to 17 games.
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Duncan Keith scored his third goal of the season and the 78th of his career, moving him past Pierre Pilote to fourth all-time among Blackhawks defensemen.
The Blackhawks got the desired start, with Seabrook and Toews goals putting them up 2-1 after one.
“After you score a goal like that it’s time for another big shift to start tilting the ice the other way, but they got in there and got that one”, Marleau said of the marker by his former teammate, Desjardins. Chicago has the seventh ranked power play in the league at 21.1 percent and Patrick Kane, who is tied for the scoring lead in the NHL with 32 points and is on a 16-game point streak. We know they’re a good team. “I think we’ve played some good hockey at home, we just need to translate that into wins”. Jonathan Toews and former Shark Andrew Desjardins also scored for Chicago.
From a more broad perspective, the Sharks have still been unable to establish their game at home, where they fell to 3-6. Chicago caps its six-game road trip with games in Anaheim on Friday and Los Angeles on Saturday…. Joe Pavelski set the play up as he made a cross-ice pass to Brent Burns, and the bearded sniper ripped a shot past Corey Crawford to knot things up at 1-1.
Keith’s goal, which looked like a harmless shot from along the boards, put the Blackhawks up 3-1.
Soon after Marleau trimmed it to 3-2, Desjardins sealed the win. The coach said Braun played with the injury during the road trip and “just wasn’t in a good enough place when we got back here for him to play tonight”. “Very timely. The first time that line scored this year and the timing couldn’t have been any better”.
The Sharks were slow out of the gate, looked disorganized in their own zone at times and trailed 2-1 after the first period.
Fresh off their annual stop in Las Vegas during their November road trip when the circus is in town, the Blackhawks started fast.
NOTES: The Blackhawks have one regulation loss in their past 10 games against the Sharks….
San Jose didn’t get its first shot on goal until there was 6:52 left in the first, and that was after Chicago had a 1-0 lead on a power-play goal from Brent Seabrook.
An upper body injury to Sharks’ defenseman Justin Braun clearly had an affect in the defensive zone.
The 37-year-old played three seasons with Sharks coach Peter De Boerr when he was with the Devils from 2011-2014.
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It was the first game in a Sharks uniform for Dainius Zubrus, who signed a one-year, two-way contract with the team Tuesday.
