The Chicago Blackhawks finished up a two-game homestand on Friday night, taking on the Arizona Coyotes. They went into overtime for the second consecutive game and managed to take the extra point this time around, winning 4–3. Jaxson Stauber got the start in net for the Blackhawks after Petr Mrazek took the overtime loss versus the Anaheim Ducks on Tuesday.
The first period started off fast-paced. With only a minute and a half gone by, Clayton Keller took a Jakob Chychrun pass and wristed it past Stauber, 1–0 Coyotes. With just over seven minutes left in the period, Keller set up Nick Schmaltz, who one-timed it past Stauber, making it 2–0 Arizona. Just over a minute and a half later in the period, Seth Jones out-waited Connor Ingram to put the Blackhawks on the board at 2–1.
The second period was relatively uneventful for the Coyotes, but the Blackhawks kept the pressure on. Andreas Athanasiou scored his 11th goal of the season to tie the game up at 2–2. Then, Max Domi got a great pass to get into the zone and made a great pass to Taylor Raddysh, but the goal was waved off because of goaltender interference, as Domi barreled into Ingram in the process. With just under 10 minutes to go in the period, Jake McCabe stole the puck and got in on a breakaway that was stopped by Ingram.
The third period took a while to get going compared to the previous two. With just over five minutes remaining in the period, Colin Blackwell found himself right in front of the net to poke the puck past Ingram, putting the Blackhawks up 3–2. It did not take long for the Coyotes to answer, though, with a Nick Bjugstad wrister tying things up again at 3–3 and sending the game to overtime.
With a minute and a half to go in overtime, Athanasiou took a breakaway in on goal and was stopped, but Caleb Jones followed up and put a wrister past Ingram to give the Blackhawks the 4–3 overtime victory.
The Blackhawks are back in action on Saturday night at the Winnipeg Jets. Coverage begins at 9 p.m. CST on NBC Sports Chicago.