The Chicago Blackhawks might have won Game 1 on Saturday, but neither team should be too pleased with their overall efforts. Sure, the Hawks should be happy that their supporting cast contributed so much and the Flyers can at least take some positivity from giving their opponents a good run, but both teams played horrible defense. One other area that both teams want to see improvement is in the work of their top guns.
NHL.com reveals captain Jonathan Toews dejected reaction ... to a win.
“We’re not happy with the way we played, especially in the first couple periods,” said Toews, who had his franchise record 13-game point-scoring streak snapped Saturday. “You’re bound to have a game like that where things don’t go your way. When you look at the score sheet and it doesn’t look pretty for our line. You get ticked off about it and you move on. We’re not going to let it become anything bigger than it actually is.”
“I thought we had good looks (on Saturday) and just didn’t score, and did everything but, so I think persistence is something we need to have as a line,” Richards said. “We can’t get discouraged by one or two bad bounces.”