In Chicago Wednesday night, the Blackhawks finally won a game for their new head coach, Jeremy Colliton.
It required Corey Crawford to make 28 saves in a 1-0 shutout over the St Louis Blues.
“Happy for the guys to get rewarded,” Colliton said. “It’s not a lot of fun to see the [losses] add up. So very happy for the group, they battled really hard.
“I thought especially in the third when the game was on the line, we found a way to get some pucks out and win some 50-50s and got a couple saves, and hopefully that relieves a little bit of the tension in the team and they can play a little more free. Because we’ve been talking about it, but it’s easier said than done.”
Colliton is 1-2-1 as the Hawks’ new bench boss.
Brent Seabrook scored the only goal of the game on the power-play early in the middle frame.
“It’s a good feeling,” Seabrook said. “It was nice to hear some music when they came in here after the game tonight. I think the boys are all fired up. The way we played, I think, going into the second period, being able to score a goal, hold on to the lead … I think the way everybody played, everybody stuck with it. Everybody stuck with the game plan. Everybody worked hard.”
The Blackhawks improved to 7-8-3.
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Jake Allen made 18 saves in the loss.
“I thought Jake, he played a great game for us,” Blues forward Tyler Bozak said. “Gave us a really good chance to win. It’s funny, we’ve been scoring tons of goals and giving up a lot, and then we can’t score and we only gave up one. So it’s a tough loss. I thought we did a lot of good things. We have to get back to work tomorrow.”
The Blues dropped to 6-7-3 with the loss.
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