Tenacious Blackhawks defeather the Ducks
Marleau scored in final moments as San Jose rebounded to beat New York Islanders 3-2
Patrick Kane had a goal and an assist, and the Chicago Blackhawks hung on to beat the Anaheim Ducks 3-2 for their fifth consecutive win in the clubs’ Black Friday rivalry game.
Artem Anisimov and Ryan Hartman also scored as the Blackhawks snapped their twogame skid even without captain Jonathan Toews. He missed his first game of the season due to an upper-body injury. Corey Crawford made 34 saves for the Western Conference leaders. They have won five straight regular-season games in Anaheim since March 2013.
Nick Ritchie and Jakob Silfverberg scored and John Gibson stopped 22 shots for the Ducks. They wrapped up a fivegame homestand on a threegame skid. The Ducks fell to 4-4-2 against the Blackhawks.
Friday’s matches
N.Y. Rangers San Jose Chicago Minnesota Washington Nashville Detroit Columbus Calgary Dallas Arizona 3 3 3 6 3 5 5 5 2 2 3 Philadelphia 2 N.Y. Islanders 2 Anaheim 2 Pittsburgh 2 Buffalo 1 Winnipeg 1 New Jersey 4 (OT) Tampa Bay 3 Boston 1 Vancouver 1 Edmonton 2 (SO)
They haven’t won this rivalry game since 2009.
In San Jose, California, Patrick Marleau scored with 22.5 seconds left and San Jose rebounded after allowing the tying goal to New York in the closing minute to prevail 3-2.
Nick Leddy had tied it for New York with a one-timer off a feed from John Tavares with 57.1 seconds left but the Sharks bounced back quickly.
Brent Burns took a shot from the point that Marleau deflected in the slot past Thomas Greiss for the winner that helped San Jose improve to 7-2 at home this season.