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We’ve Had Enough: Blues 6, Blackhawks 2

Posted on by Dave Melton
Credit: Daniel Bartel-Imagn Images

The latest disappointment from the Blackhawks arrived on a national stage on Tuesday, with Chicago losing 6-2 to the St. Louis Blues at Wrigley Field for this season’s Winter Classic.

Just 100 seconds into the game, Cam Fowler put the Blues ahead for good with this power-play goal:

Louis Crevier took the delay of game penalty that gave St. Louis the man advantage for Fowler’s goal and then Crevier failed to cut off a passing lane directly in front of his net, allowing Jordan Kyrou to score this easy power-play goal for a 2-0 Blues lead:

Taylor Hall made it a 2-1 Blues lead with this power-play goal later in the first:

The game completely fell apart in the second period, as St. Louis scored three goals to turn this one into a laugher.

With the game decidedly out of reach, Tyler Bertuzzi scored a power-play goal at the 11:15 mark of the third:

But Alexandre Texier scored five minutes later just for a little extra embarrassment:

We’re having fun, aren’t we folks?

Notes

You could’ve eaten every Christmas cookie in America last week and it wouldn’t have added up to the amount of empty calories from that Nick Foligno fight at the end of the second period. Really inspirational stuff that definitely had a huge impact on the result.

Speaking of empty calories: Tyler Bertuzzi now has 12 goals this season. Here was the situation on the scoreboard for the last six he’s scored: down 5-2, down 5-3, down 5-1, down 5-2, down 4-0 and down 5-1 in this game. Real crucial goals when the team needs them! Glad he got the biggest free-agent contract from the summer!

Kevin Korchinski should be the one in the lineup until Alec Martinez is 100 percent back from his injury. Let Louis Crevier have those Rockford minutes for now. Hell, leave Crevier there and keep Korchinski up at the NHL level even after Martinez returns.

At some point, being a league-wide joke has to resonate with someone higher up in the organ-i-zation, doesn’t it? The team’s in last place once again, even after the GM spent last April saying the team was going to move forward. Games are still difficult to watch if they can be watched at all because of the abomination that CHSN has been since it was started. There’s supposed to be a future prodigy on this team but it’s harder and harder to find him because a teenager can’t always be relied upon to do every goddamned thing by himself. And now the league brings its signature event back to the city and the team is so disinteresting that the visiting fans take over the stadium, bringing their post-goal celebrations with them in fervent enough voice that it comes through clear as day on the TV broadcast. This whole thing was one giant fucking embarrassment, from start to finish. But I’m sure we’ll get more exciting news soon about another prospect tearing it up in the CHL just so he can spend the next three years in Rockford while this team continues to Sideshow Bob its way through the rest of the decade.

A guy in his second season with the team seems to understand that better than anyone in the front office does:

Game Charts

Three Stars

What’s Next

The Blackhawks get a few days off before hosting the Montreal Canadiens on Friday night at 7 p.m.

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