Last night, I went to my second Blackhawks game, and it was a great game. They played the Colorado Avalanche, which was the team I saw the Blackhawks play the first time I went to a Blackhawks game. The scoring started when Andrew Shaw redirected a shot from Brent Seabrook for a goal about halfway through the first period to give the Blackhawks a 1-0 lead. The Avalanche answered when John Mitchell scored a goal with about one and a half minutes left in the first period to tie the game at 1-1. In the second period, the Avalanche took a 2-1 lead when Matt Duchene scored with about 7 minutes remaining in the period, and the Blackhawks could not answer during the rest of the period. Then it got really crazy. About two minutes into the third period, Jonathan Toews scored a short-handed goal to tie the game at 2-2. A short-handed goal is when a player scores a goal when his team is down at least one player because they have committed a penalty. As the game went on and the clock wound down in the third period, both teams had a few really good chances to take a commanding lead in the game, but nobody could put the puck in the net. Finally, with about a minute and a half left, the Blackhawks got the puck into the Avalanche zone and had a flurry of shots and near misses, but with 49.3 seconds left in regulation, Daniel Carcillo, a forward for the Blackhawks, was able to force the puck into the net to give the Blackhawks a 3-2 lead, and it turned out that the goal was Carcillo's first goal of the season. In the final seconds, the Avalanche were able to get one or two chances to tie the game, but they could not convert on those chances, and the Blackhawks won the game 3-2. The win was their 11th in a row, and stretched their streak of at least one point earned in a game to 24 games, which has demolished the previous record of games like that to start a season. In the 24 games, the Blackhawks have won 21 and have lost 3 in overtime. They will now try to break the 1980 Flyers team for most games straight of registering at least one point at any time during the season. That year, the Flyers were able to rattle off 35 such games in a row, 25 of which were wins and 10 of which were ties. The picture at the top is of Carcillo, #13, celebrating his game-winning goal Johnny Oduya and Nick Hjalmarsson.
AuthorHi. This is Ned. I am in 8th grade and these are my blogs. I will be updating them every week. Enjoy. Archives
May 2013
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