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Quenneville: ‘Hawks aren’t talking about goalie change, Crawford is ‘fine’

Crawford Emery

Joel Quenneville says there will be no goalie change in Chicago.

“We’re not talking about that right now,” the ‘Hawks head coach said following Monday’s loss to Detroit. "[Corey Crawford] is fine.”

The question came after Crawford allowed three goals on 30 shots in Game 3, though he wasn’t at fault for any of the markers.

Gustav Nyqvist walked around Brent Seabrook on the opening goal, Drew Miller capitalized on a Michal Rozsival turnover for the second goal and Pavel Datsyuk had an absolute laser of a shot on the third.

That said, it’s not surprising goalie questions are being asked.

Crawford teamed with Ray Emery to win the Jennings Trophy this season, and Emery posted stellar numbers -- not indicative of a No. 2 netminder -- during the regular season: 17-1-0 record, 1.94 GAA and .922 save percentage.

Emery also has some good postseason experience, taking Ottawa to the Stanley Cup finals in 2007.

It’ll be interesting to see how Crawford reacts to all of this in Game 4.

While he’s hardly to blame for Chicago being in a 2-1 series deficit, his numbers have dropped off from Rounds 1 to 2 -- most notably his save percentage, which was at .950 in the Minnesota series but now just .901 against the Red Wings.