“Man, I wish the Blackhawks would get off to a fast start…” they said before Taylor Hall scored 17 seconds into the game to give the Hawks a super-early lead.
“Man, I wish some of these veteran forwards would start finishing…” they said before Hall doubled his season-to-date goal total within six minutes of the puck dropping.
“Man, I wish Connor Bedard would break out of his scoring slump…” they said before Bedard scored 41 seconds into the second period.
“Man, it would be super cool if the Blackhawks big ticket free agents would start filling thebox score…” they said before Teuvo Teräväinen made it 4-0 at 3:06 into the second period. Tyler Bertuzzi had assists on the goals from Bedard and Teräväinen.
“Man, I’m getting greedy. How about a hat trick? And, what the hell, how about a Louis Crevier goal while we’re at it…?” ✅ AND ✅
Star 1: Taylor Hall
Score two goals in less than six minutes to start the game and you get to be the No. 1 star, folks. When you finish off a hat trick early in the second period? LET’S GOOOOOO!!!! Hall was engaged and looked like he had fresh legs early. He was moved up to Bedard’s line and Bedard didn’t have a point on any of his goals.
Star 2: Connor Bedard
THE GOAL DROUGHT IS OVER! And that might have been enough to land him at No. 1 on the night if not for Hall’s hatty. Everybody got a piece tonight. What a night!
Star 3: Louis Crevier
ANOTHER #BLACKHAWKS GOAL!!
🚨 Louis Crevier (career first!)
🍎 Ilya Mikheyev— Bleacher Nation Blackhawks (@BN_Blackhawks) November 28, 2024
You know what, you score your first career goal? Many nights that would get you No. 1. On the same night Bedard gets off the schneid and a hat trick? Still getting No. 3. Good for Louis!
Key Takeaways
I know when you light the lamp a half-dozen times in 33 minutes it’s a luxury, but Petr Mrázek was really good tonight. Like, reeeally good. The Stars actually out-shot the Blackhawks 11-10 in the second period (the Hawks out-scored the Stars 4-1). The Stars had a 12-8 advantage in 5-on-5 high danger chances thru two periods. And only had the one goal because Mrázek was confident and playing with swagger.
- Hall scoring only 17 seconds into the game was the fastest game-opening for for the Blackhawks since Feb. 9, 2020 (Dominik Kubalik in 15 seconds).
- The 5:43 that it took Hall to score two goals was the fastest for a Blackhawks skater to start a game since Alex DeBrincat on Feb. 18, 2019 (5:07). Only seven Blackhawks players have scoredtwo faster goals to start a game.
Tonight #Blackhawks Taylor Hall became the fifth player in NHL history to go 10 years between hat tricks (regular season or playoffs), joining:
Dit Clapper
Woody Dumart
Guy Carbonneau &
Matt DucheneDuchene is in attendance this evening fwiw
— Bleacher Nation Blackhawks (@BN_Blackhawks) November 28, 2024
- Dallas won 81 percent of the first period faceoffs.
- You might not have noticed Jason Dickinson much in the scoring parade, but you also didn’t notice Dallas’ line of Matt Duchene, Tyler Seguin and Mason Marchment. Because Dickinson was busy shutting them down all night. Another exceptional defensive performance from Dickinson.
- The Blackhawks’ penalty kill was outstanding.
- Here’s the Turbo goal:
To borrow from DJ Khaled, ANOTHER ONE#Blackhawks score AGAIN
🚨 Teuvo Teräväinen
🍎 Tyler Bertuzzi, TJ Brodie— Bleacher Nation Blackhawks (@BN_Blackhawks) November 28, 2024
Connor Bedard now has 77 points as a teenager for the #Blackhawks which is tied w/ Bobby Hull for the third-most by a teen in organization history
Eddie Olczyk – 129 in 149 GP
Patrick Kane – 94 in 99 GP
CONNOR BEDARD – 77 in 90 GP
Bobby Hull – 77 in 106 GP pic.twitter.com/Hn58ss4B0X— Bleacher Nation Blackhawks (@BN_Blackhawks) November 28, 2024
