The Blackhawks… dominated(?) the first period. Colorado was credited with two shots on net, and the Blackhawks had a 4-0 advantage in 5-on-5 high danger chances and 9-4 advantage in scoring chances. But neither team put a goal on the board.
The Avs predictably pushed back in the second period, and dominated the puck as much as the Blackhawks did in the first. Chicago was able to keep them off the board for 18 minutes and chance, but Spencer Knight made a bad decision to play a puck he should have frozen and that turnover quickly became a Cale Makar goal to give the Avs the first lead of the night. The Blackhawks were out-shot, officially, 19-1 in the second period.
Star 1: Ilya Mikheyev
Mikheyev led all Blackhawks forwards in ice time (12:37) at the end of the second period. Included in that: 3:26 on penalty kill duty — which led all Blackhawks. His speed made an enormous impact, especially on the two penalties the Blackhawks successfully killed in the second period. He might be the best individual penalty killer in the league right now.
Star 2: Ryan Greene
Greene led the Blackhawks with four shot attempts, three scoring chances and two high danger chances in the first period. He did a terrific job defending Cale Makar straight up in the second period as well. The majority of his ice time in the first two periods was spent against the MacKinnon line and Makar-Toews and he had an expected Goals For percentage over 50 against all of them.
Star 3: Jason Dickinson
Dickinson’s return was noticeable. He was good at the dot and led the team with five hits. His line with Mikheyev and Ryan Donato was really good.
Key Takeaways
With the exception of the turnover that turned into the first goal of the night, Spencer Knight was terrific. When Louis Crevier went to the box in the first period, the Blackhawks sent out Wyatt Kaiser and Matt Grzelcyk together on the second PK unit. At the commercial break at 10:03 into the first period, the Blackhawks were out-shooting the Avs 4-1. Yes, five combined shots on net in ten (10) minutes. It took Colorado 17 minutes to put their second shot on net. The Blackhawks out-shot the Avs 11-2 in the opening 20 minutes. The Blackhawks also won 11 of 17 faceoffs in the first period. The line of Greene, Connor Bedard and Tyler Bertuzzi had an expected Goals For of 66.92 and were on the ice for four of the Blackhawks’ nine shots at even strength in the first two periods. The Blackhawks were still at 60 percent at the dot thru two periods (25 of 42). Bedard won 7 of 12 and Frank Nazar won 7 of 10 in the first 40 minutes. The Blackhawks really miss André Burakovsky when trying to get the puck into the offensive zone on the power play. It’s noticeable with the top unit. The officiating was tremendously mediocre again. They initially called a really bad penalty on the Hawks inside the final three minutes of regulation but took it off the board — I’ve never seen that before. twitter.com/BlackhawksFocus/status/1992767473200910500Hence then, the article about blackhawks 0 avalanche 1 three stars key takeaways was published today ( ) and is available on Bleacher Nation ( Middle East ) The editorial team at PressBee has edited and verified it, and it may have been modified, fully republished, or quoted. You can read and follow the updates of this news or article from its original source.
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