“I mean, we’re not happy with how we played the last few games, ” center Marcus Kruger said.
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Hossa made it 3-0 at 7:48 of the third with his first goal this season after stripping the puck from Matt Calvert at center ice during Chicago’s 5-on-3 advantage.
Canadiens 4, Red Wings 1: MONTREAL – Jeff Petry scored the go-ahead goal in the third period and Montreal beat Detroit to reach 6-0-0 for the first time in franchise history.
He has been one of the best defensive players in the league throughout his entire career (and because he’s a winger and not a center, nearly never gets any serious consideration for the Selke Tropy, which is absurd… but that’s another argument for another day), has already eclipsed the 1,000-point mark for his career, and should at a few point this season score his 500th career goal.
“Guys who are known as scorers enjoy scoring, like everybody should”, coach Joel Quenneville said of Hossa’s first of the season. He made a great play in the neutral zone.
A pair of those goals came off of the stick of young phenom Artemi Panarin.
The Blackhawks entered the second period having scored just one goal the previous periods – Viktor Svedberg’s third-period goal in Washington on Thursday. Blue Jackets LW Brandon Saad and Blackhawks C Artem Anisimov faced their former teams for the first time. Teravainen scored with a centering pass that deflected off the skate of Dalton Prout 23 seconds into the power play. The Blackhawks also held the Blue Jackets in check in the second period; Columbus had just three shots in that frame. “Tonight it was much better”.
“If we’re waiting for something bad to happen, that was it”, Hartnell said.
“It felt, uh, boring in the second, a little bit”, goaltender Corey Crawford said of the second period, per NHL.com’s Brian Hedger.
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Patrick Kane completed the scoring with with his fourth goal, shot into an empty net with 1:27 left. “[With] lots of new pieces coming together, it’s going to take 10-15 games to get exactly where we want it. So a huge game after two losses”.
