In Chicago, Corey Crawford made 34 saves and the Blackhawks defeated the San Jose Sharks, 6-2, on Wednesday night.
The Hawks are six points back of a playoff spot.
“We increased the pace of our game, the tempo of our game in the second [period],” Chicago coach Jeremy Colliton said. “We were skating, we had excellent back pressure. Our transition was much cleaner than the first. We built the momentum off it.”
Evander Kane and Timo Meier struck for the Sharks.
“It’s nice to come in with speed and go to the net,” Kane said. “That play has been there for us a couple times this year, we just never really connected on it. Good play by [DeBrincat] to create some space and put it right on my tape and [I] decided to push it in.”
Patrick Kane had two strikes for the Hawks and Dominik Kubalik potted his 30th of the season.
“It’s nice to get that going,” Kane said. “You look at that second period and we’re up 3-1 and we have two power-play goals. It’s something that’s been missing all year, but it was good tonight.”
Duncan Keith, Brandon Saad and Alex Nylander also scored for Chicago.
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Aaron Dell made 39 saves in the loss.
“I liked the way we had our jump in the first period,” San Jose coach Bob Boughner said. “I thought we went out in the second period and did exactly what we didn’t want to do, which is take two penalties in the first seven or eight minutes.”
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