PREVIEW: Blackhawks Meet Maple Leafs at Home

TIME: 5:00 p.m.
RADIO: WGN-720-AM | STREAM: ESPN+
After finishing off their Canadian road trip on a high note with an overtime victory, the Blackhawks will return to the United Center to take on the Maple Leafs (
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RECAP

Three unanswered goals propelled the Blackhawks to a 4-3 overtime victory over the Ottawa Senators on Friday evening at Canadian Tire Centre ... Andreas Athanasiou buried the overtime game-winning goal ... Patrick Kane scored twice, his first multi-goal game of the season ... Sam Lafferty notched a shorthanded goal and now has goals (2G) in back-toback games ... Max Domi and Jake McCabe each registered two assists ... Tyler Johnson also chipped in an assist ... Petr Mrazek made 28 saves, including four in overtime for his sixth win of the year ... Chicago outshot Ottawa 32-31 in the game.

VS. TORONTO

The Blackhawks are 16-4-4 in their last 24 games against the Maple Leafs since 2003-04 ... Chicago is also 8-0-3 in their last 11 games against Toronto at the United Center ... Patrick Kane has 30 points (14G, 16A) in 21 career games against the Leafs ... In 15 games against Toronto, Max Domi has 15 points (4G, 11A) ... On Wednesday in Toronto, Philipp Kurashev and Sam Lafferty each found the back of the net, while Max Domi and Jake McCabe each tallied an assist during a 5-2 loss to the Maple Leafs.

MILESTONE FOR 88

On Friday evening, Patrick Kane surpassed former Blackhawk Jeremy Roenick (1,216 points) and now ranks third all-time in points among American-born players with 1,217 points (441G, 776A) ... He also extended his point streak vs. Ottawa to 12 games (10G, 20A) ... It's his second-longest point streak against one opponent, having tallied a 13- game point streak (8G, 15A) against the Edmonton Oilers from 2010-2014 ... His currently streak against Ottawa also includes eight consecutive multi-point contests (9G, 14A).

COMEBACK KIDS

With Andreas Athanasiou's overtime goal, the Blackhawks completed their seventh multi-goal comeback win of the season, the most in the NHL this season ... It's the most multi-goal comeback victories in a season in team history, ahead of the six they had during the 2019-20 and 1989-90 campaigns ... It's also Chicago's third multi-goal third period comeback victory this season, which ties NYI, LAK, ANA, and STL for the most this season.

SAMMY SHORTY

With his goal against Ottawa, Blackhawks forward Sam Lafferty now leads the NHL with four shorthanded goals this season ... He's the first Blackhawks skater to record at least four shorthanded goals since the 2015-16 season when Jonathan Towes registered four shorthanded markers ... Lafferty also has four points (2G, 2A) over his last five games.