Jayce Hawryluk scored his first two NHL goals to help to the Florida Panthers beat the Chicago Blackhawks 6-3 at United Center. The Cats finished its four-game road trip with a 3-1 record and climbed into sixth place in the Atlantic Division.
After Connor Murphy was given tons of space to open scoring at 13:33 of the first period, Hawryluk skated thorough defenseman Chris Dahlstrom, who mishandled MacKenzie Weegar’s long bounce pass off the boards, and beat Cam Ward to the loose puck before firing it home for his big league goal at 16:21
Mike Matheson’s pin point pass sprung Hawryluk for a breakaway and the rookie made no mistake, easily solving Ward with a quick shot from the edge of the right circle 2:35 into the second.