Some Chicago Blackhawks fans may have missed today’s game against the league-leading Washington Capitals. That can be excused (somewhat), considering it was a morning matinee on NBC. But you missed quite the affair, as the Blackhawks pulled out a 3-2 win to retake the Central Division lead, by one point over Dallas (which has a game in hand).
It looked like this was going to be a rough outing initially, as the Blackhawks looked out of sorts in the first period while the Capitals came ready to play. I would like to say some of the Blackhawks’ appearance was due to adjustments to the additions of Andrew Ladd and Tomas Fleischmann (Dale Weise is not yet with the team due to visa issues, and Christian Ehrhoff did not play), but those two looked totally fine.