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The goal capped an emotional night for the Blackhawks, who paid tribute before and during the game to Troy Murray<\/a>, who died at 63 on Saturday. Murray played for the Blackhawks as a forward from 1982-91 and was their longtime radio analyst.<\/p>\n

\u201cEspecially the meaning of today\u2019s game with Troy Murray,\u201d Nazar said of his game-winning goal. \u201cHe\u2019s definitely up there watching and guiding us, and he made a big impact on a lot of our lives and our organization.\u201d<\/p>\n

Connor Bedard<\/a> had two assists and Drew Commesso<\/a>\u00a0made 22 saves for the Blackhawks (24-29-11). Commesso was recalled from Rockford of the American Hockey League on Saturday because goalie Spencer Knight<\/a>\u00a0has been ill. In three games this season, Commesso is 2-1-0, including a 3-0 shutout at the Nashville Predators on Jan. 10.<\/p>\n

\u201cVery well,\u201d coach Jeff Blashill said of how Commesso played. \u201cI like Drew\u2019s demeanor. I thought coming out of camp we definitely had a number of good goalies, and obviously (Arvid Soderblom<\/a>) and \u2018Knighter\u2019 have played very well for us. But certainly, fully confident in Drew coming in and playing well. He\u2019s got a good demeanor to him. The last two starts have been really good, but he just has a good demeanor to him, so certainly confident when he goes in there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vanecek made 23 saves for the Mammoth (34-25-5), who had won three in a row.<\/p>\n

Utah holds the first wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Western Conference, six points ahead of the Seattle Kraken. Seattle has two games in hand. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t play our \u2018A\u2019 game, but we found a way to get a point on the road,\u201d said Mammoth coach Andre Tourigny. \u201cNow we have a big game (Tuesday at the Minnesota Wild), and we need to get more points. But I think we cannot discredit the guys to find a way at the end to dig deep and close the game and get that big point. Obviously would have loved to have a second point, but the team [on] the other side, they play us hard since the beginning of the season. Tonight, it\u2019s not like we didn\u2019t try.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Barrett Hayton<\/a> gave the Mammoth a 1-0 lead at 9:43 of the first period. Nick DeSimone<\/a>\u00a0flipped the puck toward the net from the right point, and Hayton deflected it over Commesso\u2019s right shoulder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The goal capped an emotional night for the Blackhawks, who paid tribute before and during the game to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5,4,51,5290,232,5291,5289],"class_list":{"0":"post-496028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-hockey-club","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-utah","11":"tag-utah-hc","12":"tag-utah-hockey-club","13":"tag-utahhc","14":"tag-utahhockeyclub"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116203440406315467","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496028","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=496028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}