The Chicago Blackhawks found themselves down two goals to the Winnipeg Jets in the first 2 1/2 minutes Friday night and never recovered in a 5-1 loss at Canada Life Centre.
The Hawks fell to 1-9-2. That early-season bugaboo of starting slow and giving up quick goals on the road made a return appearance against the Jets.
Paul Stastny caught Seth Jones out of position and scored on Marc-Andre Fleury 46 seconds into the game, and Neal Pionk sniped another goal at the 2 minute, 23 second mark.
The Jets scored twice before the Hawks got their first shot on goal, and the Hawks had only two cracks at the net in the first seven minutes.
Dominic Toninato and Kyle Connor scored less than two minutes apart in the second period.
Nikolaj Ehlers took advantage of Calvin de Haan’s bad pass in the neutral zone to take it back the other way and cap the scoring with the Jets’ fifth goal.
Fleury faced a staggering 13 high-danger chances in the game, per naturalstattrick.com. The Hawks got just one against Eric Comrie, who had 15 saves. Fleury had 28.
MacKenzie Entwistle scored the Hawks’ lone goal, set up by Jones from behind the net.
The Hawks had just two shots on goal on their two power plays.
