RECAP: Blackhawks Top Jets, 5-2

The Blackhawks pushed their winning streak to a season-high five straight games as they topped the Winnipeg Jets 5-2 on Sunday night at the United Center.
Eric Gustafsson and Alex Nylander each had a goal and an assist and Robin Lehner earned his 15th win of the season, but the story of the night was Patrick Kane picking up his 1,000th career point with a third-period assist in the victory.

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PLAYER OF THE GAME: Lehner stopped 36 of the 38 shots he faced on the night to give Chicago its longest winning streak of the season at five straight games.
STAT OF THE NIGHT: With an assist on Brandon Saad's goal, Kane became the 10th American-born player and the fourth all-time Blackhawk to reach 1,000 NHL points.
UP NEXT: Chicago heads into the All-Star break with a meeting against the Florida Panthers on Tuesday night at the United Center (
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GAME RECAP

The Blackhawks opened the scoring for the third straight game as Nylander found his sixth of the season at 2:51 of the first. Gustafsson found the wide-open forward in the slot, where he cut to the side of the net before sliding a backhand shot past the sprawled-out Connor Hellebuyck in goal for a 1-0 lead.

Gustafsson found the net on a chance of his own before the end of the opening frame, taking a feed from Nylander off the boards and faking a slap shot before walking down the wall and firing a wrister from the top of the circle that banked off the far post and in for a 2-0 Chicago lead at 14:11 of the first.

The Jets got on the board towards the end of the second period as Mark Scheifele picked up his own rebound of an in-tight shot on Lehner and put the rebound around the netminder and into the goal to cut Chicago's lead to 2-1 at 18:17.
David Kampf re-gained the two-goal advantage at 9:29 of the third cleaning up the rebound on a Kirby Dach shot off the rush. In a 2-on-2, Dach put a low shot on goal that sat at the top of the crease after a Hellebuyck save. Kampf drove the net and slid a shot just inside the post for a 3-1 Blackhawks lead.

Kane hit his long-awaited milestone at 14:14 of the third period, collecting a puck behind the net, feeding Ryan Carpenter on the side of the ice, who sound Saad in front for a 4-1 lead and a place in history.

The Jets would score a second time minutes later as Patrick Laine scored his 16th of the season to make it a 4-2 game.
Dominik Kubalik added an empty netter to seal the 5-2 win at 18:26 of the final frame.