The Chicago Blackhawks returned to the United Center on Tuesday night to host the Seattle Kraken following an 0–3–1 road trip. The game marks a stretch of six of their next seven games on home ice to finish the month of March. The Hawks started Spencer Knight in goal against Seattle’s Joey Daccord.
First period
The Blackhawks opened the scoring with a power play goal from Connor Bedard. Artyom Levshunov made an off-balance play to keep the puck in the zone and fed Bedard on the right half boards. From a sharp angle, Bedard snuck one past Daccord off a deflection for his 18th of the season at 3:46.
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Tyler Bertuzzi ended his 21-game goal-scoring drought with his 18th of the season to give the Hawks a 2–0 lead. Lukas Reichel won an offensive zone faceoff back to Alex Vlasic, who fired a shot on goal that was tipped in by Bertuzzi at 17:13.
Adam Larsson cut the Hawks’ lead to 2–1 with his sixth of the season. From behind the goal line, Matty Beniers found Larsson in the left circle and he slapped a shot over the shoulder of Knight at 17:44. The Hawks would take a 2–1 lead into the locker room after one.
Second period
After a strong opening 20 minutes, the wheels fell off for the Hawks in the second period. At 5:55, Jordan Eberle tied it at 2–2 with his eighth of the season. Chandler Stephenson made a perfect saucer pass from behind the goal line to Eberle, who was alone in the slot and buried a one-timer.
Just 26 seconds later, Seattle took the lead on Jared McCann’s 17th of the season. Off the rush, McCann fired a shot from the right circle past Knight at the 6:21 mark to give Seattle a 3–2 advantage.
Beniers scored his 17th of the season to give the Kraken a 4–2 lead. Seattle had some zone time and Larsson made a cross ice pass to a wide-open Beniers, who fired it past Knight at 12:53.
Shane Wright scored Seattle’s fifth unanswered goal at 15:13. After a few good saves by Knight, Wright jumped on a rebound for his 16th of the season to give Seattle a 5–2 lead after 40 minutes.
Third period
Wright extended the Seattle lead with his second of the game and 17th of the season. Larsson made another sweet cross-ice pass but this time Wright one-timed it for the goal at the 6:55 mark to make it 6–2, which stood as the final.
Analysis
A promising start for the Blackhawks after taking a 2–0 lead quickly evaporated and became another disastrous loss. The Hawks had too many defensive breakdowns which left several Seattle players wide open for easy scoring chances, some of which led to goals. Knight has struggled since his spectacular first two games as a Blackhawk, though many of those goals can be blamed on the poor play in front of him.
The Hawks look to get back into the win column on Thursday night when they host the Los Angeles Kings at the United Center. Puck drop is at 7:30 p.m. CDT on CHSN with the radio call on 720 AM WGN.
