Well that sucked.
The Chicago Blackhawks opened the 2021-22 season, falling behind 3-0 in the game’s first 10 minutes and never recovered during a 4-1 loss to the Colorado Avalanche.
It’s hard to envision a way that the opening 10 minutes could’ve been worse in terms of on-ice play. The second half of the period was only marginally better, with a Dominik Kubalik goal on the power play keeping it from being a complete nightmare:
Instead, the first period was only mostly a nightmare for the Blackhawks.