{"id":950893,"date":"2026-11-03T09:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T09:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/950893\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T09:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T09:14:09","slug":"blackhawks-lose-patrick-kane-and-early-lead-in-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/950893\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackhawks lose Patrick Kane and early lead in defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Blackhawks<\/a> let another opportunity to build on one of their best performances of the season slip away Monday.<\/p>\n

An early two-goal lead quickly was drowned out by five unanswered Avalanche goals in a 5-2 loss Monday, dropping the Hawks to a woeful 4-10-1 this season.<\/p>\n

The news got even worse for the green-clad<\/a> Hawks when Patrick Kane left during the second period with what coach Jeff Blashill later called an upper-body injury. He\u2019ll miss at least a couple of games.<\/p>\n

Blashill took offense with the implication that the Hawks\u2019 work ethic was as poor Monday as it was last week against the Red Wings. Indeed, it wasn\u2019t that poor.<\/p>\n

But those defeats eliminated the possibility that the games against the Kings and Bruins \u2014 which Blashill called two of the Hawks\u2019 five best games in the last four years, based on an internal metric \u2014 could turn into major turning points.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2018We\u2019ve talked about this since I\u2019ve been here: It\u2019s an every-night league,\u2019\u2019 forward Oliver Moore said. \u2018\u2018There\u2019s teams throughout the league that do it, that bring that full compete.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2018I think that everyone in here wants it \u2014 like, really wants it \u2014 but we have to go out there and show that every night. There were moments in tonight\u2019s game where we took control and showed it, but it\u2019s just [about] elongating it over the full 60 [minutes].\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Blashill claimed the Hawks\u2019 internal scoring-chance tracking actually gave them a 17-16 edge in that category, but he acknowledged they committed too many penalties.<\/p>\n

The Avalanche finally converted on their fifth power play to take the lead for good late in the second period.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2018They won the game, but . . . if you take the emotion or the score out from clouding your vision, it\u2019s a pretty even game, and we lose it,\u2019\u2019 Blashill said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blackhawks let another opportunity to build on one of their best performances of the season slip away…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-950893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950893","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=950893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}