March 07--Artem Anisimov had a goal and an assist while Patrick Kane, Jonathan Toews and Duncan Keith also scored to lift the Chicago Blackhawks to a 4-1 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Sunday at the United Center. Michal Rozsival and Artemi Panarin each had two assists and Corey Crawford was strong in goal as the Hawks swept the season series from their Original Six rivals and won for the third time in the last four games overall.
Gustav Nyquist scored for the Wings but it wasn't nearly enough as starting netminder Petr Mrazek was yanked after allowing two goals in the first period in favor of Jimmy Howard.
Quick start
Kane scored on the first shot of a game when he wired a shot from the right circle past Mrazek just 21 seconds in.
Chris Kuc's Three Stars
1. Anisimov: Power-play goal in the third period put distance between the teams and the Hawks cruised to the win.
2. Crawford: Extended his personal winning streak to three by making 33 saves.
3. Rozsival: Veteran defenseman also blocked two shots and was a plus-1 in 17:03 of ice time.
Big number
301: Career points for Rozsival after the Hawks defenseman notched two assists.
The quote
"I thought our guys did a great job keeping things to the outside and clearing rebounds. It's not necessarily how many shots you give up, it's the quality. I think we should be able to stop them if we keep shooting from the outside, but we're really limiting team's chances from the inside." -- Crawford
"First shot, first goal. It's nice to start that way. They probably owned us in the second, but we played a lot better in the first and the third, and finished the game off the right way." -- Toews
"We had a good start, they get back in the game with a good second period, 'Crow' was good again and our special teams were like we saw in Detroit: very good." -- Hawks coach Joel Quenneville
"I thought the guys showed up. I thought that we played well. They're a good team. You slip for a second and they'll put it in the back of the net. I thought we handled ourselves well, we obviously, ... didn't get the outcome we wanted (Sunday) , but we'll regroup and move on." -- Wings defenseman Mike Green
Up next
At Blues, 7 p.m., Wednesday; NBCSN.
