SEATTLE — Sacha Boisvert scored his first NHL goal and Tyler Bertuzzi notched his team-leading 32nd as the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Seattle Kraken 4-2 on Saturday night.
Teuvo Teräväinen and Ilya Mikheyev also scored for the Hawks, who snapped a five-game losing streak after being eliminated from playoff contention Thursday with a loss to the Oilers in Edmonton, Alberta.
Arvid Söderblom made 25 saves for the Hawks and Connor Bedard had two assists, lifting his team-leading total to 41 and pushing his career point total to 199.
Jaden Schwartz and Kaapo Kakko scored for the Kraken, who are still in the hunt for the playoffs with 75 points, six out of the West’s second wild-card spot. Seattle, which has lost four straight and is just 5-12-2 since the Olympic break, has seven games left.
With the Hawks up 2-1, Boisvert — playing in his fifth NHL game — streaked down the slot on an odd-man rush and took a pass from Kevin Korchinski before shooting a one-timer past Kraken goalie Philipp Grubauer with 5:52 to play. Grubauer had 27 saves.
Teräväinen put the Hawks on the board with a power-play goal at 9:15 of the second period, taking Bedard’s pass and poking a shot inside the left post that trickled in off Grubauer’s skate.
Bertuzzi made it 2-0 with 22.2 seconds left in the second, tucking the rebound of a shot by André Burakovsky. Mikheyev scored into an empty net with 1:12 remaining.
Schwartz’s 11th of the year cut the Hawks’ lead to 2-1 with 9:12 remaining. Kakko’s goal with 5:42 left made it 3-2.
Up next
Hawks: at San Jose Sharks on Monday in their final road game of the season.
Kraken: at Winnipeg Jets on Monday.