The Chicago Blackhawks snapped their four-game losing streak, and hopefully ended their annual March Swoon, on Friday by defeating the lowly Winnipeg Jets for the third time this season. It was the Blackhawks’ first win since March 6. Scott Darling got the start in net because Corey Crawford is suffering from an “upper-body injury.”
Darling earned a shutout, and the Blackhawks backed him up with four even-strength goals in a 4-0 triumph. Patrick Kane, Marian Hossa, Tomas Fleischmann and Andrew Ladd each tallied, with Ladd’s coming in his first game back in the city he called home for the previous 4 1/2 seasons.