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Corey Crawford (upper body) did not play in Friday's game.
RW Patrick Kane scored a goal and an assist in a win Friday and
leads the league with 92 points. He said the Blackhawks' recent
woes might be a blessing in disguise. "You can look at maybe
some positives from a negative situation," Kane said. "Looking
at a four-game slide there, maybe it's better it happens now
rather than later in the season and playoffs and then you're
done. We can learn from this and you know, if we lose one or two
down the road here we can look back on this situation as a team
and as a group and realize how we got ourselves out of it. "It's
nice to get a win and try to build off that and put a little run
together here."
LW Andrew Ladd stung his former teammates with a third-period
goal as the Blackhawks posted a 4-0 victory over the Winnipeg
Jets. Ladd, took a pass from Chicago captain Jonathan Toews and
slipped in his 20th goal of the season at 3:06 of the third
period as the Blackhawks built a 3-0 lead. "It was awesome,"
Ladd said, describing his return to the place he called home for
the better part of five seasons. "I always appreciated the fans
and the people of Winnipeg when I was here. I appreciated the
ovations and can't say enough about the city."
C Jonathan Toews registered more than 16 minutes of ice time on
Friday in a 4-0 win over Winnipeg and was a force both deep in
his own end and in Jets territory. The talented center picked up
an assist on a slick pass through a pair of Jet defenders to
left winger Andrew Ladd, and now has four goals and six helpers
in his last 13 games as the Blackhawks push to repeat as Stanley
Cup champions.
C Artem Anisimov has scored just one goal in his last 16 games
and has chipped in five assists in that time. He's also been
stuck on 19 goals for the last five games. Anisimov was a big
piece in the trade that sent forward Brandon Saad to the
Columbus Blue Jackets last June, and he's been a fixture on a
line with right winger Patrick Kane and left winger Artemi
Panarin. The line is still one of the very best in hockey but
had been inconsistent during Chicago's recent struggles, prior
to Friday's 4-0 triumph over Winnipeg.
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