{"id":18252,"date":"2025-03-21T22:56:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T22:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=18252"},"modified":"2025-03-21T22:56:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T22:56:15","slug":"breaking-the-chicago-blackhawks-losing-streak-continues-despite-connor-bedards-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=18252","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING : The Chicago Blackhawks losing streak continues despite Connor Bedard&#8217;s goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,x_0,y_123,w_4964,h_2792\/c_fill,w_720,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images\/ImagnImages\/mmsport\/99\/01jpww93w3gqbtmgqkd9.jpg\" alt=\"Mar 20, 2025; Chicago, Illinois, USA;  Los Angeles Kings right wing Adrian Kempe (9) skates with the puck against Chicago Blackhawks during the second period at United Center. Mandatory Credit: Talia Sprague-Imagn Images\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-0\">The Chicago Blackhawks&#8217; losing streak extended to six games after they fell 3-1 to the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday. With the loss, Chicago drops to 20-40-9 of the season.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\">Connor Bedard scored on the power play for the second straight game while Spencer Knight stopped 30 of 32 shots. Chicago was also eliminated from playoff contention following the loss.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Blackhawks were officially eliminated from playoff contention tonight \u2014 cementing a fate that became obvious in November, if not earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Postgame notebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ifwiVT1K9L\">https:\/\/t.co\/ifwiVT1K9L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ben Pope (@BenPopeCST) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenPopeCST\/status\/1902929637774090277?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"inline-text-3\">The Kings of the First&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\">Trevor Moore scored the first goal of the game to make it 1-0 LA as he skated in the offensive zone, stopped, and took a wrist shot from the slot off the post and in past the stick side of Knight.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\">Less than a minute later, Alex Turcotte tipped in Vladislav Gavrikov&#8217;s shot from the point, making it 2-0 Kings.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\">Los Angeles was in control in the first period as they headed into the first intermission with a two-goal lead, outshooting the Blackhawks 19-7.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"inline-text-7\">The Blackhawks Answer Back&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\">Despite being outplayed in the first and early in the second, the Blackhawks cut the Kings&#8217; lead to one with a power play goal from Connor Bedard. Bedard was left wide open in the left circle and received a cross-ice pass from Tyler Bertuzzi and fired a one-timer past Kings goalie Darcy Kuemper.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BEDARD FROM ONE KNEE \ud83c\udfaf <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xv54ILIxEQ\">pic.twitter.com\/xv54ILIxEQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NHL (@NHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHL\/status\/1902902327880663532?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\">The Blackhawks played a great second period but were still down to the LA Kings at the end of forty minutes of play.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"inline-text-11\">The Kings are The Kings..<\/h2>\n<p id=\"inline-text-12\">The Blackhawks had a strong third period as Spencer Knight kept the Blackhawks in it and made key-time saves to keep it a close game.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-13\">Chicago had a chance to tie up the game up at three but couldn&#8217;t as Joel Edmundson iced the game away with an empty-netter to make it 3-1 for the final.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"inline-text-14\">3 Key Takeaways from the Game:<\/h2>\n<p id=\"inline-text-15\"><strong>1. First-Period Struggles Continue:<\/strong> The Blackhawks fell behind early once again despite a stronger effort in the second and third periods.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-16\"><strong>2. Power Play Showing Life:<\/strong> Chicago&#8217;s powerplay has struggled in recent games but Bedard&#8217;s back-to-back power play goals is a sign of improvement.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-17\"><strong>3. Strong Goaltending Effort:<\/strong> Despite the loss, Spencer Knight kept the Blackhawks in the game with several key saves.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-18\">\n<figure><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Blackhawks&#8217; losing streak extends to six games as they fall 3-1 to the Los Angeles Kings Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chicago-blackhawks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING : The Chicago Blackhawks losing streak continues despite Connor Bedard&#039;s goal - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=18252\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING : The Chicago Blackhawks losing streak continues despite Connor Bedard&#039;s goal - 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