{"id":414278,"date":"2026-01-18T13:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T13:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/414278\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T13:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T13:37:14","slug":"chicago-blackhawks-celebrate-titles-then-lose-to-boston-bruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/414278\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Blackhawks celebrate titles, then lose to Boston Bruins"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chicago Blackhawks honored members of their three most recent Stanley Cup championship teams before the puck dropped versus the Boston Bruins on Saturday night. There were drape malfunctions again<\/a>, but the show went on.<\/p>\n

Former Hawks commentator Pat Foley led the latest centennial season festivity, this time celebrating \u201cThe Banner Years\u201d of the 2010s. He introduced Eddie Olczyk, who came to the podium for a few words, and then the members of those championship teams.<\/p>\n

Out came Corey Crawford, Duncan Keith, Brent Seabrook, Patrick Sharp, Mari\u00e1n Hossa and others. They lined up on top of the Hawks\u2019 centennial logo, and the Stanley Cup was hoisted on the United Center ice once again.<\/p>\n

Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews \u2014 who returns Monday to the stadium where he spent the majority of his career \u2014 are a little busy, but they were still honored.<\/p>\n

The Stanley Cup winners watched from their suite as game began against the Bruins, the team the Hawks beat for the 2013 title. That series loss is (probably) long behind the Bruins, but they didn\u2019t want their five-game winning streak to end in Chicago.<\/p>\n

So after trailing by two goals after the first period, the Bruins put up three of their own in the second and five unanswered overall to hand the hosts a 5-2 loss.<\/p>\n

The defeat was the Hawks\u2019 fourth in five games and spoiled the celebration. The Bruins, meanwhile, won their sixth straight.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re on a good roll right now, they\u2019re playing good hockey,\u201d Hawks coach Jeff Blashill said. \u201cIt was some individualistic mistakes (we made) that we just have to be tighter.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese moments, these games, are going to get harder and harder and harder. We got to make sure that you get rid of any kind of self-inflicted errors.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Hawks (19-22-7) have been in an offensive drought since their four-game winning streak to open the year. They scored 17 goals in those first four wins of 2026, but have sounded the horn just eight times in their last five.<\/p>\n

Photos: Boston Bruins 5, Chicago Blackhawks 2<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I do notice (is that) we were playing very predictable, and now it seems we\u2019re trying to make one extra move or one extra play,\u201d center Jason Dickinson said. \u201cWhere we were getting success was crashing the net or pucks low to high and then working systematically through that.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of times we\u2019re trying to continue with that, but it feels like we\u2019re one step away from it, so we\u2019re just a little bit disconnected. I don\u2019t have an exact reason or answer as to why that is the case, but it could all stem from just overthinking and trying to do too much and trying to take it upon ourselves, instead of just buying into the simple nest that was working.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryan Greene opened the scoring in the first period off a setup from Andr\u00e9 Burakovsky at 16:14. Wyatt Kaiser added to the Hawks lead two minutes later.<\/p>\n

The next two periods saw the Bruins (28-19-2) create plays at their will and let it fly like their NBA counterpart at TD Garden. Three Bruins scored in the second period, including left winger Viktor Arvidsson, who caught Connor Bedard slipping in a three-on-one breakaway.<\/p>\n

Defenseman Mason Lohrei scored his second goal of the night on the power play at 9:01 of the third period. Right winger David Pastrnak made one of the better plays of the season<\/a> with his pass to center Marat Khusnutdinov for the Bruins\u2019 fifth goal of the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cLeaving the first period (with) the 2-0 lead and giving up five unanswered obviously isn\u2019t what we want to do,\u201d Greene said. \u201cI would say a lot of that was self-inflicted.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Hawks defense hasn\u2019t been stout in the past few games, leading to the ugly results. It has been either them being too aggressive, leading to penalties, or too light, leading to practice shots for opponents.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s finding the balance of when you are aggressive, you got to make sure we\u2019re sound with the puck in those times,\u201d Blashill said. \u201cA little bit of carelessness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Goaltender Arvid S\u00f6derblom (18 saves) has had some good stretches this season but has struggled overall. He is 5-8-1 in 14 starts with a .868 save percentage and a 3.97 goals-against-average. Blashill has faith in his 26-year-old backup despite the numbers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a tough judge tonight,\u201d Blashill said. \u201cI got belief for sure, and he\u2019ll play again this coming week.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Blackhawks honored members of their three most recent Stanley Cup championship teams before the puck dropped…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5115],"tags":[4253,51968,521,95,8208,39067,37,96,5263,8206,8207,5,3862,12702,4,2821,8209,855,1570],"class_list":["post-414278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-blackhawks","tag-andre-burakovsky","tag-banner-years","tag-blackhawks","tag-boston-bruins","tag-brent-seabrook","tag-centennial-celebration","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-chicagoblackhawks","tag-corey-crawford","tag-duncan-keith","tag-hockey","tag-jonathan-toews","tag-marian-hossa","tag-nhl","tag-patrick-kane","tag-patrick-sharp","tag-ryan-greene","tag-wyatt-kaiser"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115916377132419075","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}