It doesn’t have to make sense, does it?
Good.
Because the Chicago Blackhawks looked like a completely different team while playing north of the border on Thursday night, handing the Winnipeg Jets a 4-1 defeat.
With the win, the Blackhawks move to 6-1 when playing on the tail end of back-to-back games for reasons that defy explanation.
Two players were largely responsible for the Chicago victory: goaltender Robin Lehner early on, then star forward Patrick Kane for the rest of the night.
It started with Kane, too, who took off on a 2-on-1 during the game’s first minute and fired a perfect pass to Alex Nylander, who turned the odd-man rush into a goal and silenced some of his critics with a solid performance in all zones against the Jets.