CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Logan Stankoven had two goals and an assist, helping the depleted Carolina Hurricanes beat the Chicago Blackhawks 7-2 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
Taylor Hall added a goal and an assist as Carolina improved to 9-3-0 in its last 12 games. Mark Jankowski scored twice and Sean Walker and K\u2019Andre Miller also added goals in the opener of a four-game trip, and Frederik Andersen made 23 saves.<\/p>\n
Playing without several regulars in their first game since clinching the Metropolitan Division title, the Hurricanes (51-22-6) stayed two points ahead of Buffalo for the top spot in the Eastern Conference. The Sabres cruised to a 5-0 victory over Columbus.<\/p>\n
Anton Frondell had two goals for Chicago in his ninth career game. Spencer Knight stopped 15 shots.<\/p>\n
The last-place Blackhawks (28-37-14) lost for the seventh time in eight games.<\/p>\n
Stankoven snapped a 1-1 tie when he flicked a shot past Knight on a drive to the net with 2:50 left in the first period. He also cleaned up a rebound for his 21st goal 4:08 into the second.<\/p>\n
Jankowski got a piece of Alexander Nikishin’s shot with 5:10 left in the second, giving Carolina a 4-1 lead. He also scored his 10th goal on a one-timer 12:51 into the third.<\/p>\n
There were scattered boos at a mostly empty United Center as the final seconds ticked off.<\/p>\n
Frondell, who turns 19 on May 7, scored his third career goal on a slick redirection 6:09 into the third. The No. 3 overall pick in last year’s draft has been a bright spot for the lowly Blackhawks since making his NHL debut on March 24.<\/p>\n
Both teams play again on Saturday. Carolina is at Utah, and Chicago hosts St. Louis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Logan Stankoven had two goals and an assist, helping the depleted Carolina Hurricanes beat the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5107],"tags":[28,683,1107,194,29,5176,1239,5,195,62392,3091,520,1649,4,10617,3494,3492,47087,10616,29951,10019,6949,488,1110],"class_list":{"0":"post-549249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-hurricanes","8":"tag-alexander-nikishin","9":"tag-anton-frondell","10":"tag-buffalo","11":"tag-carolina","12":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","13":"tag-carolinahurricanes","14":"tag-frederik-andersen","15":"tag-hockey","16":"tag-hurricanes","17":"tag-hurricanes-blackhawks-score","18":"tag-kandre-miller","19":"tag-logan-stankoven","20":"tag-mark-jankowski","21":"tag-nhl","22":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","23":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","24":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","25":"tag-product-32550-ap-online-hockey-game-stories","26":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","27":"tag-product-40784-ap-illinois-sports-only","28":"tag-product-40804-ap-north-carolina-sports-only","29":"tag-sean-walker","30":"tag-spencer-knight","31":"tag-taylor-hall"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549249","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=549249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}