There’s running into a hot goalie, and then there’s whatever Corey Crawford was for the Blackhawks on Wednesday night.
Crawford stopped all 36 shots he faced, and Artem Anisimov’s power play goal at the 8:58 mark of the second period stood up as the game-winning goal as the Blackhawks shutout the Flyers by a 3-0 final.
It’s the 22nd shutout of Crawford’s career, and he earned it as the Flyers brought one high-quality scoring chance after another all night long. In the end they couldn’t solve the veteran netminder and saw a pair of goals by Anisimov and Jonathan Toews 20 seconds apart in the second period fuel the Hawks.