RECAP: Suter Scores Hat Trick as Blackhawks Take 6-2 Win over Detroit

The Blackhawks offensive floodgates opened on Sunday afternoon, scoring a season-best six goals in a 6-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings at the United Center.
Pius Suter scored a hat trick with his first three NHL goals, while Connor Murphy, Mattias Janmark and Philipp Kurashev rounded out the scoring. Kevin Lankinen stopped 25 pucks in his second straight win.

CHI vs. DET
GAMECENTER: CHI vs. DET
GALLERY: Blackhawks vs. Red Wings
BLAKCHAWK OF THE GAME: Pius Suter's first career NHL hat trick led the Blackhawks to victory on Sunday. The only Blackhawks player to record a hat trick within his first six career NHL games was Art Somers, who scored three goals in his fourth career game, a 6-5 overtime loss to the visiting Ottawa Senators on Nov. 21, 1929
STAT OF THE DAY: With his second-period goal, Connor Murphy is now on a career-best four-game point streak. Four times in his career he'd strung three-game streaks together, but never four. With a secondary assist on Mattias Janmark's third-period tally, Murphy also reached the 100-career point milestone on the day.
UP NEXT: The Blackhawks depart on a two-game trip to Nashville to face the Predators on Tuesday night and Wednesday night.

GAME RECAP

CHI: 1, DET: 0

1st - 4:42 - Pius Suter (Calvin de Haan, Patrick Kane)

Chicago once again got on the board early with Pius Suter scoring his first NHL goal after an early Chicago penalty kill. Patrick Kane brought the puck into zone off a rush and left it for Calvin de Haan at the point, who put a shot on net that was blockered away by Jonathan Bernier, but right into the path of Suter on the weak post. The 24 year old put a rebound shot into the open cage for a 1-0 lead.

CHI: 2, DET: 0

1st - 9:44 - Pius Suter (Mattias Janmark, Dominik Kubalik) - PPG

Suter struck again just minutes later on the power play. Mattias Janmark brought the puck through the slot off a keep in at the point, navigated around a sprawling Red Wings defenseman and found Suter at the weak-side post for the 2-0 lead.

CHI: 2, DET: 1

2nd - 0:41 - Tyler Bertuzzi (Dylan Larkin, Filip Hronek) - PPG

Early in the second on a two-man advantage, Filip Hronek at the point found Dylan Larkin a the top of the left circle, who quickly fed Tyler Bertuzzi on the far post for a redirect goal to pull the Red Wings within one, 2-1.

CHI: 3, DET: 1

2nd - 17:18 - Connor Murphy

Chicago re-gained a two-goal lead from the stick of Connor Murphy late in the second period for his second of the year. As Dominik Kubalik sent a centering feed to Dylan Strome, Anthony Mantha tried to clear the puck up the slot and right to Murphy. The defenseman beat Bernier glove-side for the 3-1 lead.

CHI: 4, DET: 1

3rd - 0:58 - Mattias Janmark (Patrick Kane, Connor Murphy)

After scoring his first goal as a Blackhawk on Friday into an empty net, Mattias Janmark scored in more memorable fashion for his second on Sunday. The winger drove the back post, putting a feed from Patrick Kane past Bernier to make it a 4-1 game for the second time in as many games at home.

CHI: 4, DET: 2

3rd - 11:59 - Tyler Bertuzzi (Filip Hronek, Dylan Larkin) - PPG

The same trio that converted for Detroit on the power play in the first period combined again in the third, as Bertuzzi netted his second of the game by cleaning up a rebound in front off a Lankinen stop.

CHI: 5, DET: 2

3rd - 12:28 - Pius Suter (Alex DeBrincat, Duncan Keith)

Pius Suter completed the hat trick in a solo effort from the boards off the rush in the third period. In a 2-on-1 rush with Patrick Kane to his right, Suter ripped a shot past the glove hand of Bernier for his third of the game and a 5-2 advantage.

CHI: 6, DET: 2

3rd - 15:55 - Philipp Kurashev

Philipp Kurashev got in on the action in the final minutes of the third, driving out of the far corner with a puck, putting a shot on goal and following up his own rebound for his second career tally with under five to play.