If you look at the box score, the story of the New York Islanders beating the Chicago Blackhawks 3-2 was all about the Isles scoring two goals in less than one minute.
The Blackhawks view it as a matter of work ethic, though.
Both Jonathan Toews and Dan Carcillo emphasized as much after the loss, which saw the end of Chicago’s eight-game winning streak. Toews praised Scott Darling, but not the team effort, as the Chicago Sun-Times’ Mark Lazerus reports.
“We just didn’t work for pucks, we didn’t generate chances, we didn’t really make them do things they didn’t want to do,” Toews said.
Carcillo echoed those thoughts:
Carcillo: "They were outworking us and putting pucks to the net & going to those hard areas. Seemed like we didn’t want to do it tonight."
— Mark Lazerus (@MarkLazerus) December 14, 2014
Still, that two-goal burst also made a big difference, even surpassing a sublime Patrick Kane goal. Here’s video of that duo of goals:
One can argue that the Islanders needed this one the most, as they ended a three-game skid with this win.
The Blackhawks don’t seem too broken up about it, really.
Kane: "We went on a nice little streak there. We kind of put this one in our back pocket, learn from it and move on." #Blackhawks
— Tracey Myers (@Tramyers_NHL) December 14, 2014