Chicago Blackhawks (28-35-14, in the Central Division) vs. San Jose Sharks (36-32-7, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n
San Jose, California; Monday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The San Jose Sharks and the Chicago Blackhawks meet in Western Conference action.<\/p>\n
San Jose is 36-32-7 overall and 20-13-5 in home games. The Sharks have an 18-5-6 record in games decided by a goal.<\/p>\n
Chicago has a 15-19-6 record in road games and a 28-35-14 record overall. The Blackhawks have a -51 scoring differential, with 197 total goals scored and 248 allowed.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Monday for the second time this season. The Blackhawks won the last meeting 6-3. Ryan Donato scored two goals in the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Will Smith has 22 goals and 32 assists for the Sharks. Macklin Celebrini has six goals and five assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Connor Bedard has 30 goals and 40 assists for the Blackhawks. Nick Lardis has scored four goals and added two assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Sharks: 4-5-1, averaging 2.7 goals, 4.7 assists, 3.7 penalties and 9.4 penalty minutes while giving up 3.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Blackhawks: 3-5-2, averaging 2.2 goals, 3.6 assists, 3.5 penalties and 7.5 penalty minutes while giving up 3.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Sharks: Ryan Reaves: out (hamd).<\/p>\n
Blackhawks: Shea Weber: out for season (ankle), Artyom Levshunov: out for season (hand), Andrew Mangiapane: out (upper body), Oliver Moore: out (lower body), Matt Grzelcyk: out for season (upper-body).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Blackhawks (28-35-14, in the Central Division) vs. San Jose Sharks (36-32-7, in the Pacific Division) San Jose,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5115],"tags":[61923,301,521,37,96,5263,5,4,292,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-541864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-blackhawks","8":"tag-61923","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-blackhawks","11":"tag-chicago","12":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","13":"tag-chicagoblackhawks","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-nhl-hockey","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116351644918529126","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541864","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=541864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}