Yet another terrible start doomed the Blackhawks Friday night as they were routed 5-1 by the Minnesota Wild.
The Wild opened the scoring — like most Blackhawks opponents this season — when Calen Addison cycled down low before backhanding the puck to Marcus Foligno, who stuffed it home to put the Wild up 1-0 just 2:58 in the first period.
Ryan Hartman made it 2-0 after a brilliant pass from Kirill Kaprizov that went through three Blackhawks players in the slot. Absolutely no one was covering Hartman.
Possibly in an attempt to change the momentum in favor of the Blackhawks, Riley Stillman dropped the gloves against Brandon Duhaime during a faceoff.