Feel better soon, Crawford. (Photo: Bridget Samuels/flickr)
It took all of 12 seconds for the Chicago Blackhawks to score the game-winning goal against the St. Louis Blues, and it was a beauty. The pass went from Brent Seabrook, to Duncan Keith, to Marian Hossa, to Brandon Saad, who deflected the puck off of Jonathan Toews‘ skate and past Jaroslav Halak to make it 1-0.
You need to see this goal for yourself. It’s just everything good and pure about the Blackhawks right now.
Everything seemed to go swimmingly in the first period… and then Ray Emery was suddenly in goal for the second period. He took over for Corey Crawford, who seemed wobbly as he came off of the ice at the end of the first period. Fortunately for the Blackhawks, Emery was on point despite having to come in cold, making key saves such as this one on Chris Stewart‘s point-blank chance.
Then the Blackhawks would pad their lead in the third period with this lovely goal. Is the Bryan Bickell pass to Andrew Shaw to set up a goal going to be a thing now? Because I could get used to this.
Then Toews would end the scoring with another goal that was not as pretty as the first two, but still counted.
Before the game began, the St. Louis Blues Twitter account began using the hashtag #endthestreak in reference to their desire to see the Blues give the Blackhawks their first regulation loss this season. Instead, the Blackhawks ended Halak’s point streak against them (he had gone 3-0-3 against the Blackhawks before tonight’s game) and was also the first time Halak had lost in regulation this season. Whoops, wrong streak(s) ended!
Also, this is the third shutout this year, which means didtheblackhawksgetashutout.com is completely ruined now.
