VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The Blackhawks have performed with scrappiness and gotten stable goaltending however been unable to provide sufficient offense to win on the street for months now.
All of that remained the case Monday in a 2-0 defeat to the Canucks — their seventeenth consecutive street loss and their second consecutive shutout street loss.
“There’s no motive why we will’t rating on the street if we’re scoring at house,” Nick Foligno mentioned. “That, to me, is a mindset [thing].”
The primary-place Canucks did all their injury within the sport’s first seven minutes, exploiting the Hawks’ short-lived third defensive pair of Isaak Phillips and Louis Crevier for a back-door objective by Pius Suter and a nifty top-shelf snipe by Quinn Hughes.
The 2 groups basically performed to a stalemate for the remaining 53 minutes, which was admirable by the Hawks — given the expertise disparity — however completely passable for the Canucks with a two-goal lead.
The Hawks completed with a 31-29 edge in photographs on objective, marking the primary time they’ve outshot a house group since Nov. 30. However they had been unable to dent Canucks goalie Thatcher Demko, completed 0-for-5 on the ability play, wasted 27 stable saves by Petr Mrazek and nonetheless haven’t received exterior of Chicago since Nov. 9.
Coach Luke Richardson mentioned he was comfortable together with his group’s dedication and thought it will be unwise to alter issues tactically within the third interval regardless of the scoreline.
“We had some beauty on the ability play,” Richardson mentioned. “[Colin Blackwell] had a breakaway close to the tip that basically would have sparked us, and [he] simply missed.
“If we opened up something to go up and down the ice, I feel they’re simply ready for that. That’s what they did to the Maple Leafs final sport; they only ate them up within the third interval by doing that. We had been affected person, taking part in our sport, and it gave us an opportunity to attain some objectives. Sadly, we’re simply not discovering that end proper now.”
Foligno logged 19:09 of ice time, throughout which he took one dumb penalty however tallied a team-high seven photographs on objective. Reese Johnson added 5 photographs on objective in his most noticeable sport shortly.
