{"id":334446,"date":"2025-12-08T07:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T07:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/334446\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T07:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T07:28:08","slug":"blackhawks-hammered-by-ducks-completing-teams-worst-weekend-since-1951","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/334446\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackhawks hammered by Ducks, completing team’s worst weekend since 1951"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANAHEIM, Calif. \u2014 Back-to-backs are a big problem for the Blackhawks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An atrocious 7-1 loss Sunday against the Ducks \u2014 following a 6-0 defeat<\/a> Saturday against the Kings \u2014 completed an utterly disastrous weekend for the team in sunny Southern California.<\/p>\n

It marked the first time since 1951 the Hawks lost consecutive games by six or more goals and the first time any NHL team did so on consecutive nights since the Atlanta Thrashers in 2000.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe lost a lot of puck battles,\u201d forward Andre Burakovsky said. “[We were] playing too much with our sticks, poke-checking. [We] didn\u2019t skate. Clearly, they were the faster team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s game was one of the most lopsided one will ever see in the NHL. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s difficult to put into words how dominant the Ducks were, so the numbers tell the tale well enough. The Ducks generated a 50-11 advantage in scoring chances, including a 28-3 advantage in high-danger chances, per Natural Stat Trick. Both were the largest single-game differentials recorded by any team this season.<\/p>\n

Hawks goalie Arvid Soderblom set a career high with 46 saves and still allowed seven goals in the process.<\/p>\n

In the blink of an eye, the Hawks\u2019 season goal differential has cratered from plus-seven to minus-five. The only solace might be that two losses aren\u2019t capable of denting their record (now 12-11-6) to that same degree.<\/p>\n

This back-to-back set turned out even worse than their first back-to-back a few weeks ago, in which they blew a lead against the Kraken before getting blown out<\/a> 9-3 by the Sabres \u2014 which was terrible in itself.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur two worst games of the year were those two back-to-backs, and that\u2019s inexcusable,\u201d coach Jeff Blashill said. \u201cNeither one of them were that hard of travel, and we\u2019ve got more coming. We have to figure out a way to be better.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s worth keeping in mind with another back-to-back coming up next weekend \u2014 Friday at the Blues and Saturday against the Red Wings \u2014 following their first game back home Wednesday against the Rangers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you get your butt kicked on the scoreboard two nights in a row like that \u2014 and tonight was a total, total whooping \u2014 your confidence slips,\u201d Blashill added. \u201cBut this is a big-boy league, man. You\u2019ve got to have mental toughness.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll get out of here, fly home and get back out [to practice] on Tuesday. But there\u2019s lessons to be learned. The one thing I\u2019ve been impressed [about] with this team is, they\u2019ve learned lessons. This is a time where it felt like they didn\u2019t learn a lesson from Buffalo.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. \u2014 Back-to-backs are a big problem for the Blackhawks. An atrocious 7-1 loss Sunday against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-334446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}