The Chicago Blackhawks welcomed the Winnipeg Jets to the United Center Sunday evening for a divisional tilt. It took the teams a bit to shake off the Thanksgiving hangover, but the visitors piled on once the scoring started. After taking a late first-period 1–0 lead (following an offside-negated Blackhawks goal), Winnipeg scored four second-period goals and two more goals in the third period to hand the Blackhawks a 7–2 loss. This loss was Chicago’s seventh (0–6–1) in a row.
✈️ Despite leading the league in face-off percentage (56.4%), the Blackhawks had a rare bad night at the dots (45%). Jonathan Toews led Chicago, winning 53% of the draws he took.
✈️ Petr Mrazek made 37 saves on top of the seven goals he gave up. He did not have a great night at all, but the team around him was no help, either. In fact, he looked frustrated (or fed up) all night.
✈️ The Blackhawks goals came from Taylor Raddysh and Jujhar Khaira (power play). Raddysh’s goal brought them within one goal, but the Jets scored two goals in just over a minute and tacked on a Mark Scheifele goal in the final two minutes of the second to carry a commanding 5–2 lead into the third period. The one ray of light was that the Blackhawks were 50% (1-for-2) on the power play.
✈️ Seth Jones and Filip Roos (who only played 14:34) both carried -3 on the night. Again, Winnipeg did not put less than 13 shots on the Blackhawks’ net in any of the periods (17, 14 and 13 for 44 total). It was a shooting gallery.
The Blackhawks are back in action Wednesday night as Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl and the Edmonton Oilers head into town for a special 8:30 p.m. CST puck drop.