The running joke around the league is that the Carolina Hurricanes are the Blackhawks East due to Ron Francis’s trend of trading with Chicago over the past few seasons. Five former Hawks, Trevor van Riemsdyk, Scott Darling, Joakim Nordstrom, Klas Dahlbeck and Teuvo Teravainen all celebrated their trip back to Chicago with a 3-2 Canes victory on Thursday..
The game was a tale of two backups, which pitted Darling against J.F Berube. Berube is the third goalie on the Hawks’ depth chart, and this was just his fourth start of the season.