{"id":375377,"date":"2025-11-13T06:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/375377\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T06:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:55:13","slug":"undermanned-sluggish-blackhawks-scrape-out-point-in-overtime-loss-to-devils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/375377\/","title":{"rendered":"Undermanned, sluggish Blackhawks scrape out point in overtime loss to Devils"},"content":{"rendered":"

If the Blackhawks<\/a> played like they did Wednesday last season or the year before, they probably would\u2019ve lost by three or four goals. Captain Nick Foligno said as much after the game.<\/p>\n

This season\u2019s Hawks have an uncanny knack for getting results, though. They somehow scraped out one point in a 4-3 overtime loss to the Devils despite putting forth one of their worst performances.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t have our best, that\u2019s for sure,\u201d coach Jeff Blashill said. \u201cIt looked like we had a number of guys without great legs. … Then you\u2019re kind of slow to pucks, you\u2019re kind of slow with the puck and you\u2019re not as sharp when you do have it. We just weren\u2019t as assertive with the puck as we needed to be.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe other side of it is, we had leads that we definitely squandered. So there are areas we have to clean up.\u201d<\/p>\n

The absence of three forwards \u2014 Frank Nazar (\u201cmid-body\u201d injury), Jason Dickinson (shoulder injury) and Andre Burakovsky (illness) \u2014 was a factor. That took some of the \u201cmojo\u201d out of the top six, pushing Oliver Moore up onto the first line and Ryan Greene onto the second.<\/p>\n

The Hawks did get the depth scoring necessary to make up for that, though. After Connor Bedard extended his point streak to nine consecutive games with a five-on-three blast in the first period, just-recalled Landon Slaggert and Sam Lafferty both scored go-ahead goals in the third period \u2014 Lafferty\u2019s coming in ridiculously impressive fashion.<\/p>\n

They weren\u2019t able to protect those leads, however. Devils defenseman Simon Nemec eventually tied the game with 3:46 left in regulation and ended it 3:28 into overtime, completing his hat trick and dropping the Hawks to 8-5-4 this season.<\/p>\n

The Devils\u2019 speed and cohesion burned the Hawks again and again in transition, and goalie Spencer Knight wasn\u2019t able to hold the fort forever. The visitors finished with a 27-11 advantage in scoring chances during five-on-five play.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things you\u2019re looking for as a coach is who\u2019s going, and it looked like a night when a lot of guys weren\u2019t going,\u201d Blashill said. \u201cBy the end of the game, we made an adjustment…that eliminated some of their speed through the neutral zone. It probably took me too long to get to that point, so I\u2019ll take some of the blame on that. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe love the pressure, but at times we got stretched out. When you get stretched out, you\u2019re giving up some of that speed through the middle, and we weren\u2019t able to hold the line because of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If the Blackhawks played like they did Wednesday last season or the year before, they probably would\u2019ve lost…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":375378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-375377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115541083839513098","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}