The defensive shuffle continues with Juuso Riikola back tonight and Jamie Oleksiak back to the scratch list.
The Blackhawks start a back-to-back today, which means they elect to play Cam Ward, who is not doing very well this year. He gives up a goal to Patric Hornqvist on Pittsburgh’s first shot on goal of the game just 2:43 into the game.
Then less than two minutes later, Ward stops the second shot from Kris Letang, but leaves a big juicy rebound for Jake Guentzel to punch home to make it 2-0.