Friday, March 17, 2017
Blackhawks beat Senators 2-1
Panik scored on the power play off a pass from Patrick Kane with 3:01 remaining. Duncan Keith also scored and Scott Darling made 33 saves to help the Blackhawks get their second straight win.
Kyle Turris scored for Ottawa, and Mike Condon finished with 26 saves as the Senators squandered a chance to move in to first place in the Atlantic Division.
The Blackhawks took a 1-0 lead at 8:04 of the third as Keith’s shot eventually found its way across the goal line.
Thursday, March 16, 2017
IL Lottery
LuckyDay Lotto Midday
02-04-08-15-33
(two, four, eight, fifteen, thirty-three)
Pick Three-Midday
9-2-9, Fireball: 4
(nine, two, nine; Fireball: four)
Pick Three-Evening
5-5-4, Fireball: 4
(five, five, four; Fireball: four)
Pick Four-Midday
6-0-1-4, Fireball: 8
(six, zero, one, four; Fireball: eight)
Pick Four-Evening
0-9-0-2, Fireball: 3
(zero, nine, zero, two; Fireball: three)
Lucky Day Lotto
14-18-20-23-40
(fourteen, eighteen, twenty, twenty-three, forty)
Estimated jackpot: $300,000
Mega Millions
Estimated jackpot: $131 million
Powerball
16-30-41-48-53, Powerball: 16, Power Play: 3
(sixteen, thirty, forty-one, forty-eight, fifty-three; Powerball: sixteen; Power Play: three)
Estimated jackpot: $123 million
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Blackhawks beat Canadiens 4-2
Johnny Oduya, Artemi Panarin and Jonathan Toews, into an empty net, scored for the Blackhawks, who jumped over Minnesota and lead the Central Division with 93 points.
Paul Byron and Shea Weber scored for Montreal.
Carey Price made 20 saves and became the third Canadiens goaltender to play 500 games, joining Patrick Roy (551) and Jacques Plante (556).
The Canadiens have not beaten Chicago since 2014 (0-6-1).
Crawford, a Montreal native coming off a season-best 42 saves against the Wild on Sunday, is 7-0-2 versus the Canadiens.
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Bulls beat Hornets 115-109
Dwyane Wade and Jimmy Butler each had 23 points for the Bulls (32-35), who got a needed win to boost their hopes of earning the eighth playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.
Mirotic, who didn’t play in Chicago’s loss to Boston on Sunday, had five 3-pointers, while Rondo provided the spark for the Bulls in his first start since Dec. 30. Along with hitting a season-high three 3-pointers, he had six assists and seven rebounds.
Jeremy Lamb scored 26 points filling in for Nic Batum (migraine), while Michael Kidd-Gilchrist had 22 and Kemba Walker 21 for the struggling Hornets. Marvin Williams had 13 points and tied a career high with 18 rebounds.
Monday, March 13, 2017
Blackhawks beat Wild 4-2
CHICAGO -- Patrick Kane and Artemi Panarin scored on Chicago’s first two shots, Corey Crawford made 42 saves and the Blackhawks beat Minnesota 4-2 on Sunday to pull within a point of the Central Division-leading Wild.
Trevor van Riemsdyk and Marian Hossa also scored for the Blackhawks, who ended a two-game slide and won for the 13th time in their last 16. Kane’s goal was his team-leading 30th and 10th in eight games.
Eric Staal scored his 22nd goal and Mikael Granlund got his 23rd for Minnesota, which has dropped three of four. Minnesota outshot Chicago 44-22 for a season high allowed by the Blackhawks.
Minnesota goaltender Devan Dubnyk, looking for his career-high 37th win, was relieved by Darcy Kuemper less than five minutes into the game after allowing those early goals.
Celtics beat Bulls 100-80
BOSTON (AP) – Isaiah Thomas scored 22 points and later joined fans doing the wave as it circled TD Garden, and the Boston Celtics handed the Chicago Bulls its fifth straight loss, 100-80.
The Celtics rushed to a 13-0 lead, shutting out Chicago until Dwyane Wade’s jumper nearly six minutes into the game.
Thomas, the team’s leading scorer at 29.2 points per game, played only 24 minutes and sat the entire final quarter. He had some fun with the fans in the closing minutes of the blowout, taking part with teammate Jae Crowder in the crowd’s cheer.
Avery Bradley had 17 points. Robin Lopez and Denzel Valentine led the Bulls with 13 points apiece.
Friday, March 10, 2017
Ducks beat Blackhawks 1-0
Corey Perry scored in the second as Anaheim ended Chicago’s seven-game winning streak despite being outshot 43-26 on the night.
Corey Crawford stopped 25 shots for the Blackhawks. They lost for the second time in their past 14.
Bernier’s second shutout this season and 14th of his career helped the Ducks pull ahead of idle Edmonton for second place in the Pacific Division. Bernier made his sixth straight start with John Gibson sidelined by a lower-body injury.
Perry stopped a 10-game scoring drought with his 12th goal at 17:44. He hadn’t connected since scoring twice on Feb. 9 at Buffalo.