When the defensive lineup for the Blackhawks in this game was announced, there was trouble felt inevitable. Connor Murphy and Erik Gustafsson as the first pairing, Adam Boqvist and Dennis Gilbert as the third. What could possibly go wrong?
When Boqvist and then Calvin de Haan went down in the first period, everything did.
Boqvist would return by the end of the first and de Haan wouldn’t, and that pretty much sums up the game, as the Blackhawks lost 5-1 to the Golden Knights on Tuesday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.