Only a few things went wrong:
* The Hawks Cannot Score. They shoot a lot and, in this game, had a lot of A+ chances, but no joy? I have no idea what's going on with that. Bad luck? Chucking at the goalie? Saad, Toews and Panik all failed on point-blank attempts. I don't know but, until some shots start going in, The Hawks are gonna be looking at lot of nights like this one.
Saad has one assist in his last six games, and has not scored in over three weeks.
Panik has one goal and one assist in that same timespan.
* They Did Kinda Get Goalied. Charlie Lindgren came outta nowhere and threw a perfect game, so there's that.
* Another Brief Let Up let them down. The Hawks were the better team by some margin...except for a seven-or-eight minute spell in the third period in which everything they touched turned to crap. Keep it somewhat together for the full 60 and it's a different story. Probably.
* Connor Murphy played a pretty good game...except for two plays. He rocked a gaudy 76% Corsi at even strength, had good gaps and made safe, careful plays out of his own zone, but he was on the ice for both goals against. On the first GA, things started going wrong when Kempny failed to keep the puck in the MTL zone, although that was complicated by an official in the way. Murphy then tripped all over himself trying to change direction and chase down Drouin, who he was never going to catch, and managed to get in the way of Sharp who *might* have something for the speedy Habs forward.
Sometimes it just goes like that.
On the second GA Murph took way too much time tracking the puck down in the corner, gave it up to Pacioretty and - boom - 2-nothing. And that's why he'll sit on Thursday in favour of (ulp!) Forsling.
At least Corey Crawford was named the NHL First Star of The Week, for what that's worth...
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