The Florida Panthers came up short after falling behind early in a disappointing 3-2 loss to the Chicago Blackhawks at United Center. Florida lost consecutive games in regulation time for the first time this season and have dropped three of their last four. The sixty minute defeat also ended the Panthers nine-game point streak (6-0-3 since December 23, 2018) versus the Blackhawks.
Chicago, coming in on a four-game losing streak, opened the scoring at the 6:24 mark when Dominik Kubalik notched his eleventh goal of the campaign. Connor Murphy started things off by slipping a pass along the boards by Alex Wennberg to Brandon Hagel, who broke into the Cats zone and threaded a pass just under a diving Radko Gudas’ stick for Kubalik to finish off.