Kings Upon the Main: Blackhawks 6, Ducks 3
On a busy night off the ice for the Blackhawks, they cruised to one of their more easier victories of the season on it with a 6-3 win on the road over the Anaheim Ducks on Saturday night.
After a scoreless first period, the second period featured five goals, starting with this one from Wyatt Kaiser at the 7:48 mark:
Chicago goal!
Scored by Wyatt Kaiser with 12:12 remaining in the 2nd period.
Assisted by Teuvo Teravainen and Ilya Mikheyev.
Anaheim: 0
Chicago: 1
#CHIvsANA #FlyTogether #Blackhawks
[image or embed]— NHL Goals (@nhlgoals.bsky.social) March 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Leo Carlsson tied things up about a minute later:
Anaheim goal!
Scored by Leo Carlsson with 11:27 remaining in the 2nd period.
Assisted by Sam Colangelo and Frank Vatrano.
Anaheim: 1
Chicago: 1
#CHIvsANA #FlyTogether #Blackhawks
[image or embed]— NHL Goals (@nhlgoals.bsky.social) March 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Two minutes after that, Chicago took the lead on a power-play goal when Pat Maroon went strong to the net and stuffed the puck into the Anaheim goal:
Power play goal for Chicago!
Scored by Patrick Maroon with 09:36 remaining in the 2nd period.
Assisted by Lukas Reichel and Alec Martinez.
Anaheim: 1
Chicago: 2
#CHIvsANA #FlyTogether #Blackhawks
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Chicago went up 3-1 when a loose puck went to Ryan Donato behind the Anaheim net and he made a perfect pass to Teuvo in the slot, who quickly uncorked a wrister for the goal:
Chicago goal!
Scored by Teuvo Teravainen with 06:44 remaining in the 2nd period.
Assisted by Ryan Donato and TJ Brodie.
Anaheim: 1
Chicago: 3
#CHIvsANA #FlyTogether #Blackhawks
[image or embed]— NHL Goals (@nhlgoals.bsky.social) March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Anaheim capped the second-period scoring when Jackson LaCombe scored this goal on a second chance near the side of the net:
Anaheim goal!
Scored by Jackson LaCombe with 05:19 remaining in the 2nd period.
Assisted by Ryan Strome and Frank Vatrano.
Anaheim: 2
Chicago: 3
#CHIvsANA #FlyTogether #Blackhawks
[image or embed]— NHL Goals (@nhlgoals.bsky.social) March 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The Blackhawks’ two-goal lead was restored on this Lukas Reichel breakaway goal about five minutes into the third:
Chicago goal!
Scored by Lukas Reichel with 15:07 remaining in the 3rd period.
Assisted by Craig Smith and Alec Martinez.
Anaheim: 2
Chicago: 4
#CHIvsANA #FlyTogether #Blackhawks
[image or embed]— NHL Goals (@nhlgoals.bsky.social) March 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Simultaneous Anaheim penalties gave the Hawks an extended 5-on-3 and Donato turned that into a goal when he outdueled Jacob Trouba to fire this loose puck home:
Power play goal for Chicago!
Scored by Ryan Donato with 12:20 remaining in the 3rd period.
Assisted by Tyler Bertuzzi and Alex Vlasic.
Anaheim: 2
Chicago: 5
#CHIvsANA #FlyTogether #Blackhawks
[image or embed]— NHL Goals (@nhlgoals.bsky.social) March 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Donato wasn’t done, scoring this nifty breakaway goal to make it a four-goal advantage for Chicago:
Chicago goal!
Scored by Ryan Donato with 09:04 remaining in the 3rd period.
Assisted by Teuvo Teravainen.
Anaheim: 2
Chicago: 6
#CHIvsANA #FlyTogether #Blackhawks
[image or embed]— NHL Goals (@nhlgoals.bsky.social) March 1, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Carlsson added a second goal for Anaheim but there wasn’t going to be a comeback in this one.
Anaheim goal!
Scored by Leo Carlsson with 02:44 remaining in the 3rd period.
Assisted by Brian Dumoulin.
Anaheim: 3
Chicago: 6
#CHIvsANA #FlyTogether #Blackhawks
[image or embed]— NHL Goals (@nhlgoals.bsky.social) March 1, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Notes
Obviously, the big Blackhawks news of the day had little to do with happened during this game, as the object of a probably unfair amount of scorn over the last several seasons is on his way to Florida after Seth Jones was traded to the Panthers. LBR had a lengthy write-up on all angles of this deal, including a deeper dive on Spencer Knight that should offer plenty of encouragement about his future here. Florida gets present assets for a Cup run, Chicago gets future assets for its rebuild. Hard to do anything but tip the cap in Kyle Davidson’s for this excellent deal. Here’s to more trades like that to get this whole thing trending in a more positive direction.
Look, there’s been a lot of griping about Lukas Reichel’s recent benching from this corner of the internet and we don’t need to add to it, here. But that third-period goal is a little bit of everything that makes him an intriguing prospect. The whole thing starts with Reichel anticipating an opponent’s pass in the defensive zone and getting his stick involved to break up the play. He then reads the developing counter, has the speed to pull away everyone else on the ice and finishes the breakaway with his adept hands. Yeah, consistency has been an issue — that’ll happen with young players, though. But there are also so many flashes like that from Reichel which suggests there’s more in him than the Blackhawks have been able to unearth so far. Here’s hoping the next coach has the means to do that, because Reichel isn’t the only forward prospect who may need some guidance along the path of NHL development.
Speaking of flashes from younger players: would be thrilled to see more confident navigations of the offensive zone from Wyatt Kaiser like the one he had on that goal in the second period. With Jones now gone, there are 25 minutes of ice time per game available to someone, and it’d be great if a good chunk of those minutes were nabbed by a guy like Kaiser because of more moments like that one.
Not going to complain too much about the Bertuzzi-Bedard-Athanasiou line here because the Hawks won this game and we’re trying to enjoy it but let’s get it on the record now that this line is a disaster and was hopefully broken up before Bedard returned to his locker stall after the game.
Oh, and that’s now five games without a point for Bedard. Fix this, dammit.
Frank Nazar: still one of the most fun players to watch since the 4 Nations break, if not the most fun player to watch. No points tonight but he drew both penalties that led to the 5-on-3 in the third which iced the game.
Ryan Donato is probably going to be a solid depth piece on some contending team when he’s inevitably traded by the end of the week and he probably could’ve been a fun part of the team here if circumstances were different. He and Teuvo certainly put on a show in this game, with that line — alongside Ilya Mikheyev — scoring three goals at 5-on-5 without being on the ice for one against.
Of the 18 Chicago skaters in this game, eight are probable or possible long-term pieces here: Reichel, Kaiser, Bedard, Dach, Del Mastro, Vlasic, Nazar and Slaggert. Several of those players had standout moments tonight, along with Soderblom in net and we also can’t ignore that Teuvo is likely going to be here for multiple more seasons due to his contract. All adds up to a rather pleasant evening of watching the Blackhawks, which isn’t something we’ve said a whole lot this season, eh?
Game Charts
Three Stars
Ryan Donato (CHI) — 2 goals, 1 assist
Teuvo Teravainen (CHI) — 1 goal, 2 assists
Arvid Soderblom (CHI) — 28 saves on 31 shots
What’s Next
The Blackhawks return home for a Monday night game against the Los Angeles Kings at 7:30 p.m....
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