PREVIEW: Blackhawks, Blues Wrap Season Series in Sunday Matinee

TIME: 2 p.m. CT
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The Blackhawks and Blues wrap their three-game season series on Sunday afternoon at the United Center. Each team has a win on home ice in the first two meetings of the year.

TEAM RECORDS

• CHI: 19-26-8, 46 PTS
• STL: 31-14-6, 68 PTS

HOW TO WATCH

Catch all the action with Pat Foley and Eddie Olczyk on NBC Sports Chicago with pregame coverage beginning at 1:30 p.m. John Wiedeman, Troy Murray and Paul Caponigri have the call on WGN Radio as well.

VS. ST LOUIS

Chicago and St. Louis wrap up their season series this afternoon at the United Center. The Blues won the last meeting 5-1 at the Enterprise Center as Dylan Strome notched the lone goal for Chicago with Patrick Kane and Dominik Kubalik recording assists. Strome also won nine of 15 (60 percent) draws that evening. Kane has points (7G, 7A) in 10 of his last 12 games against the Blues.
Chicago defeated St. Louis 3-2 in overtime on Nov. 26 at the United Center as Alex DeBrincat scored the game-winning goal in the extra frame.

DOUBLE HAT TRICK

Friday marked the fourth time in the NHL's expansion era (since 1967-68) that the Blackhawks had two players each score a hat trick in the same game when Patrick Kane and Brandon Hagel each scored thrice. The others were on March 9, 2003 (Eric Daze & Steve Sullivan), Jan. 1, 1986 (Troy Murray & Al Secord) and Feb. 18, 1968 (Stan Mikita & Kenny Wharram).
The last set of teammates to accomplish that feat were Bryan Rust and Evan Rodrigues of the Pittsburgh Penguins when they each registered a hat trick on Jan. 2, 2022. Prior to that instance, Leon Draisaitl and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins did it on March 26, 2019. It has only been done seven times since the beginning of the 2006-07 campaign.

ALL-AMERICAN

With his hat trick, Patrick Kane has 16 markers during the 2021- 22 campaign and is now the first American-born player in NHL history to have 15+ goals in each of his first 15 seasons. It was Kane's eighth career hat trick, matching Doug Bentley for fifth most in franchise history. Steve Larmer is fourth on the list with nine career games with at least three goals.
Friday night was Kane's 56th career multi-goal game and 96th contest with at least three points. He has points (7G, 10A) in nine of his last 11 skates. His 17 points since Jan. 25 share ninth in the league.

EVERYTHING BHAGEL

Friday night's game was the 100th of Brandon Hagel's career and his first career hat trick. Since Jan. 13, when Hagel began a season-long four-game point streak (2G, 2A), he shares first on the team with nine markers and is third with 14 points.
Hagel registered 24 points (9G, 15A) last season in 52 games. In 47 skates this year, he has a career best 17 goals and 30 points. He shares seventh in his class in goals per game and 10th in points per game.

HELPING HAND

With three power-play assists in the second period on Friday night, Alex DeBrincat became the third Blackhawks player to post three power-play helpers in a single period (since 1933-34), joining Patrick Kane (second period; Jan. 9, 2018) and Chris Chelios (first period; April 4, 1993). It was his fifth career game registering three assists, a career best.
DeBrincat has three goals and nine points over his last seven games. He is sixth in the NHL with 29 markers and shares fifth with 11 power-play goals. He shares third in the NHL with 61 goals since the beginning of last season.

MR. JONES

Seth Jones matched a single-game best with three helpers on Friday night against the Devils. It was his fifth career three-assist game. He shares 10th among league blueliners with 31 assists this season.
The Arlington, Texas native appeared in a game-high 27:36 of total ice time on February 18th against the Stars. He has played in 27 or more minutes in 21 games during the 2021-22 campaign. His 26:10 average TOI this season is a career high and fourth in the league. His previous season best came during the 2018-19 season when he averaged 25:49 of ice time per game.