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What can be said about the Hawks' 3-2 OT loss against Calgary yesterday? Corey Crawford gave up at least one goal he shouldn't have and that was the margin of error.
Does the lost point all fall on Crawford? Hard to say.
But Flames goalie Reto Berra came up bigger than Crawford when he needed to. Crawford played the previous afternoon in Winnipeg as did his teammates—3 points out of 4 is nothing to sneeze at—and all can perhaps be given a pass on that basis.
Again, the need for Crawford to play back to back perhaps points to a loss of confidence in the organization in backup netminder Nikolai Khabibulin.
But just when things start to look a little less than rosy, the Jets roll into town, a team the Hawks thoroughly dominated Saturday at the MTS Centre in Winnipeg.
That said, the Jets beat the Red Wings 4-2 last night, so tomorrow's game cannot be taken for granted.
Here are the likely lineups:
Chicago
Patrick Sharp Jonathan Toews Marian Hossa
Brandon Saad Brandon Pirri Patrick Kane
Bryan Bickell Andrew Shaw Jeremy Morin
Brandon Bollig Marcus Kruger Ben Smith
Duncan Keith Brent Seabrook
Johnny Oduya Niklas Hjalmarsson
Nick Leddy Sheldon Brookbank
Corey Crawford
Winnipeg
Andrew Ladd Bryan Little Devin Setoguchi
Blake Wheeler Olli Jokinen Eric Tangradi
Matt Halischuk Mark Scheifele Michael Frolik
Anthony Peluso James Wright Chris Thorburn
Dustin Byfuglien Grant Clitsome
Tobias Enstrom Zach Bogosian
Keaton Ellerby Adam Pardy
Ondrej Pavelec
Back with more soon,
JJ