Ryan Donato scored the winner in a 2-1 victory in overtime vs. the Anaheim Ducks. The Chicago Blackhawks\u2019 point streak now rests at four straight games.<\/p>\n
Ryan Donato scored the winner in a 2-1 victory in overtime vs. the Anaheim Ducks. The Chicago Blackhawks\u2019 point streak now rests at four straight games.<\/p>\n
First Period:<\/p>\n
The game started slowly for both teams. Outside of the occasional shot, the two teams were mostly stalemated to begin the match. Frank Vatrano was able to break open the game with a huge chance on Spencer Knight on the Power Play, with a few follow-up chances ensuing.\u00a0 But the castle was guarded by Knight, who turned the flurry of chances away. The teams went into the intermission deadlocked without much open space to work with.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Second Period:\u00a0<\/p>\n
The second period started with Anaheim in firm possession of the game\u2019s pace. Former Ranger Chris Kreider was robbed by the skate blade of Spencer Knight. Minutes later, Leo Carlsson cut through the Blackhawks\u2019 defense like butter but rang his shot off the post behind Spencer. Then things got pretty hectic <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n If there is one facet of the game the Chicago Blackhawks have struggled in, it is discipline. Good news for Jeff Blashill\u2019s squad is that the Anaheim Ducks also suffer from this issue. The chaos began when Andre Burakovsky tripped Leo Carlsson to send Anaheim on the power play. After 90 seconds had transpired, the Anaheim Ducks would give us 4v4 hockey with a \u201cToo Many Men\u201d stopping play. However, instead of taking advantage of this chance, Ryan Donato tripped poor Leo Carlsson less than 5 seconds after acquiring the man advantage. Just when you think it doesn\u2019t get any weirder. Markus Granlund would trip Connor Murphy during the Donato penalty to make it a penalty kill for the Ducks. Needless to say, this period had a lot of open ice but not a ton of chances or momentum for either team. Once again, Chicago and Anaheim could not separate themselves on the scoreboard.\u00a0<\/p>\n Story continues below.<\/p>\n More Sports News<\/p>\n \t .wp-block-group__inner-container:has(> .embla), \t\tsvg { Third Period:<\/p>\n The third frame of this stalemate was all \u2018Hawks to start. The best chance of the shift cycle came when Ryan Donato just missed a redirect tap-in on Lukas Dostal. After much pressing, Chicago\u2019s superstar, Frank Nazar, would finally make his mark. After dropping to the ice, Nazar found Donato, who cut up the blue line. On the return feed, Nazar would look to Wyatt Kaise, who was streaking down the ice wide open. Kaiser\u2019s shot rang off the crossbar but fell right to Frankie, who made no mistake of netting his third of the year.\u00a0Chicago would hunker down after the following shift, but Wyatt Kaiser made a terrible mistake, which led to a power play with just 1:45 remaining in the game. And with only 35 ticks to go, Mason McTavish sent a shot over Spencer Knight, ending the shutout bid. The Blachawks once again headed into an extra frame of hockey. <\/p>\n
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