No Power Outage For Blackhawks: Toews Hat Trick Leads Chicago Past Canucks, 7-4

With Friday night’s hat trick performance in Game Four, Blackhawks’ captain Jonathan Toews had one of those performances that essentially carried his team on his shoulders. He had the three goals and added another two assists contributing to 71% of his team’s goals. Our Chicago site, Second City Hockey, has something to say about that as well:

Speaking of Luongo’s performance in the playoffs, it hasn’t been very good. He has allowed the most goals in these playoffs, 32, and as Second City Hockey mentioned a bad GAA of 3.27 and an even worse .892 SV%. Our Canucks site, Nucks Misconduct, has some reservations about his play in Game Four too:

Toews added two assists to tie a Blackhawks playoff record for points in a game, joining Stan Mikita (1973) and Steve Larmer (1990).

The Blackhawks are one victory away from a return trip to the conference finals. Chicago, which lost in five games to Detroit a year ago, hasn’t appeared in consecutive conference finals since 1989 and ‘90.