NEWARK, N.J. _ Any team will tell you it's important not to look ahead at the schedule.
Well, it's also important not to look back either.
With the thrill of a huge road victory against the powerful Bruins a night earlier still dancing in their heads, the Blackhawks headed to the Prudential Center on Friday night to face the Devils, one of the league's worst teams.
An easy two points? No such thing for the Hawks, who never led until Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane and Kirby Dach converted in the shootout to beat the Devils 2-1 for their second straight win and a sweep of their brief two-game trip.
Corey Crawford stopped Jack Hughes, the No. 1 pick in the June draft, on the Devils' final shootout attempt to secure the victory.
The Hawks were again missing Duncan Keith and Andrew Shaw, who were placed on injured reserve earlier in the day, and Olli Maatta, who missed his second straight game with an illness.
The Hawks got off to a slow start, taking three penalties in the first period and giving up a power-play goal on the last one when Taylor Hall fired a wrist shot past Crawford from just beyond the right faceoff circle.
Alex DeBrincat had a great chance midway through the second when he stole an errant pass at the Devils blue line. He raced in and fired a shot that Mackenzie Blackwood steered away with his blocker.
But the Hawks got their first power play shortly afterward, and DeBrincat scored his second goal in as many games, backhanding in a rebound that slipped through the crease under Blackwood's leg to tie the game at 1.
The second period ended with the game still tied, but not before Hughes sent a 100-foot pass to Miles Wood, but Crawford stopped his breakaway attempt.
Brandon Saad had a breakaway in each of the first two periods, including one while short-handed early in the first, but Blackwood stonewalled him both times.
