In Chicago, the Blackhawks are bound and determined to be relevant, on select nights.
Tuesday night was one of those nights in a 6-2 win over the Anaheim Ducks.
Dylan Strome had two goals and three points in the win.
“Important win for us,” Blackhawks coach Jeremy Colliton said. “First game after that road trip and typically that’s a tougher one, but I was pretty happy with our start, first 10 minutes, I thought we were aggressive and did a lot of good things. The second 10, didn’t love as much. I thought we turned the puck over and gave them some free chances.
“But then I thought we won the game in the second period; when we came out, our first couple of rotations were excellent, then we score the goal. I thought that’s where we won the game, so that’s something we’ve been talking about is trying to string multiple shifts together to build momentum and we did that and big win.”
Strome, Alex Nylander and Patrick Kane scored in just under three minutes in the middle frame to break the game open for the Hawks.
Corey Crawford made 37 saves to get the win.
“We’re looking really good,” Crawford said. “Tonight was kind of a dangerous team, you know those teams that you’re not really sure what you’re going to get out of them. It was a close game for a while, we found a way to open it up, which was good to see.”
Danton Heinen and Carter Rowney were the Ducks strikers.
“Not to take this laying down,” Ducks coach Dallas Eakins said of his message to the team in the second intermission. “You can’t. You’ve got to make a choice when the score is out of whack you go, ‘well OK I’ve got eight or nine shifts left and I can just get through them or we can go out and play and play hard and play with some respect.’
“For the most part I thought we did that in the third.”
David Kampf and Drake Caggiula s also scored for Chicago.
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John Gibson got the start for the Ducks but made just 19 saves and yielded five goals.
Ryan Miller made 15 saves in the third period mop up.
“[Miller was] good,” Eakins said. “That’s always a tough spot, right? Sitting on the bench or back in the dressing room and then to be called in like that it’s tough. He’s such an unbelievable pro and such great experience, and I thought he stepped up for us.”
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