In my mind I’m goin’ to Carolina
Can’t you see the sunshine?
Can’t you just feel the moonshine?
Maybe just like a friend of mine
To hit me from behind
Yes I’m goin’ to Carolina in my mind
A little James Taylor on this Monday morning.
The Chicago Blackhawks head out on the road for the final time this season with three games against the Carolina Hurricanes this week to close their regular season series. The Blackhawks are technically still alive in the Central Division playoff race, but would need an excess amount of good fortune and stellar play to keep those hopes alive longer than the next 18 hours. With the Dallas Stars and Nashville Predators in action tonight, the Blackhawks need a regulation win over Carolina with regulation loses by the Predators and Stars just to live to see another day. I wouldn’t hold your breath.
5/1/21 Post Game Interviews
5/1/21 Post Game Interviews
Interviews with Head Coach Joel Quenneville and forwards Anthony Duclair and Aleksander Barkov
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Ending their final road trip of the regular season with an exclamation point, Anthony Duclair had a pair of goals to lift the Panthers to a 5-4 win over the Blackhawks at United Center on Saturday. Things are clicking right now, said Duclair, who also notched an assist to finish with game-high three points. Not only for me, but for the whole time. It s nice to see.
Lighting the lamp for the third straight game, Duclair opened the scoring tonight when he finished off a great individual effort by springing off the half-wall and ripping a wrist shot past Kevin Lankinen from the right circle to put the Panthers on top 1-0 at 7:54 of the first period.
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Jeremy Colliton will follow a “Goldilocks” principle as he increases ice time for Blackhawks young players in the 2021 season’s final games.
“You want to try and give them just the right amount,” the Hawks coach said. “Not too little, not too much.”
In the Hawks’ 5-4 loss to the Panthers on Saturday, that meant the usual candidates still led the team in ice time, but the distribution was more even across the board.
For example, a power play unit of Kirby Dach, Brandon Hagel, Philipp Kurashev, Vinnie Hinostroza and Wyatt Kalynuk a group with three rookies and an average age of 22.4 scored the Hawks’ third goal.
Well they certainly made it interesting.
Battling to the final horn, again, the Chicago Blackhawks fall 5-4 to the Florida Panthers in their third-to-last home game of the season and the regular season finale of the series between the teams this season. With the loss, Chicago falls to 2-4-2 on the season against the Panthers and will remain in sixth-place in the Central Division with 50 points. The Nashville Predators and Dallas Stars headed to overtime in their matchup tonight, with Nashville finding the winner and getting the win 1-0 and extending their lead over the Blackhawks to eight points in the standings.
The Florida Panthers scored three goals between the final minute of the second period and the opening minute of the third to beat the host Chicago Blackhawks 5-