{"id":486455,"date":"2026-01-02T06:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T06:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/486455\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T06:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T06:06:15","slug":"mikheyev-scores-twice-blackhawks-hold-off-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/486455\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikheyev scores twice, Blackhawks hold off Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rantanen tied the game at 14:42, picking up the puck at the left point, moving past Chicago forward Jason Dickinson<\/a> and lifting in a backhand shot.<\/p>\n

Teuvo Teravainen<\/a> restored the Blackhawks\u2019 lead with a power-play goal at the 13-second mark of the second period. Tyler Bertuzzi<\/a> fed the puck behind the net to Burakovsky, who passed in front to Teravainen.<\/p>\n

Mikheyev put the Blackhawks ahead 3-1 at 9:14 of the second period. He picked up the puck along the left-wing boards in the offensive zone, skated across and went backhand to forehand to score while holding off Stars defenseman Esa Lindell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oettinger could not handle Mikheyev\u2019s shot from the bottom of the left face-off circle at 3:58 of the third period. The goalie appeared to have stopped the shot, but the puck slid into the net after hitting him.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I was pumped for him,\u201d said Blackhawks coach Jeff Blashill. \u201cHe\u2019s enjoying his early experience as a new dad, so it was great. He\u2019s such a good person, so whenever he has success it\u2019s fun to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Oettinger was pulled for the extra attacker, Robertson brought the Stars within 4-2 at 16:03 and Duchene scored from in front of the net at 19:42 for the 4-3 final.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know what, all you\u2019re really doing there is working on your 6-on-5,\u201d said Stars coach Glen Gulutzan. \u201cYou\u2019re going to be down maybe 3-2. But if you\u2019re down 4-1, there\u2019s no recipe for that. The odds of coming back aren\u2019t great, but it\u2019s good to work on that 6-on-5 when you need it, but your game has to be much better than that or you\u2019re going to be in a hole.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re certainly in a little bit of a funk. I thought they (the Blackhawks) played with a little bit of jump, and we just didn\u2019t respond. Obviously, giving up two penalty-kill goals hurts. It gives the other team life. But we\u2019ve got to create our own life. I thought we aren\u2019t executing at the level that we can. I think we\u2019ve certainly dropped a degree. You can\u2019t drop a degree in this league and expect to win in anyone\u2019s building on any given night.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rantanen tied the game at 14:42, picking up the puck at the left point, moving past Chicago forward…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":486456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-486455","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\/115824006544225340","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486455","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=486455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}