In Chicago Wednesday night, the Blackhawks’ Corey Crawford had 35 saves to pick up a 3-0 win over the visiting Philadelphia Flyers.
“We needed a big effort and we’ve been playing pretty good hockey, just haven’t gotten some wins and that was a good one … to get a big win at home and get back on track,” Crawford said.
The win snapped a three-game skid by the Hawks.
After a scoreless first period, Chicago got two goals from Artem Anisimov and Jonathan Toews in a 20-second span to break the game open.
Anisimov’s goal came on the power play and gave the bench cause to relax after a stretch where the Hawks had not been successful on their special teams.
“That turned out to be a big goal for us,” he said. “Those couple earlier power plays had decent looks, but as far as doing the right thing on that one, get it to the net, get traffic at the net, get the rebound, get rewarded. We need a power-play goal. I think it helped the confidence as we went along.”
Chicago had gone 0-for-18 with the man advantage.
Toews’ goal came off a take-away at the Flyers’ blue line and break on Brian Elliot in the Flyers’ net.
Alex DeBrincatadded a goal for the Blackhawks with an empty net goal.
“We’ll take the win. We’ll take some areas where we were better, power play, penalty killing was good. We can still be better in our team game,” Quenneville said with some relief.
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Brian Elliott had 32 saves in the loss as the Flyers dropped to 6-6-1 and have lost four of their five.
“I thought we got traffic to the net, we had good opportunities all the way through,” Flyers head coach Dave Hakstol said. “Third period we had seven or eight really good scoring chances, we just didn’t have anything to show for it.”
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