PREVIEW: Blackhawks Face Kraken in Afternoon Tilt

TIME: 4 p.m. CT
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The Blackhawks and Seattle Kraken meet for the second time this season in matinee game on the West Coast on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. It's Chicago's second trip to Seattle this season, topping the expansion team 4-2 on Nov. 17 at Climate Pledge Arena.

TEAM RECORDS

• CHI: 15-18-5, 35 PTS
• SEA: 10-23-4, 24 PTS

HOW TO WATCH

Chris Vosters and Colby Cohen are on the call Monday afternoon on NBC Sports Chicago with pregame coverage beginning at 3:30 p.m. John Wiedeman and Colin Fraser also have the radio broadcast of the game on WGN Radio.

VS. SEATTLE

Chicago defeated the Kraken 4-2 in the Blackhawks first-ever trip to Seattle on Nov. 17. The Blackhawks opened the game with three straight goals from Seth Jones, Alex DeBrincat and Patrick Kane. DeBrincat and Kane added helpers in the victory and Jake McCabe wrapped up Chicago's scoring that evening with an empty-net marker. Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 31 of 33 shots in the victory. The Blackhawks blocked 22 shots that night, one of seven times they have blocked 20 or more shots in a game this season.

STREAKING HAWKS

With Saturday night's victory, the Blackhawks matched a season high with their fourth consecutive victory (Nov. 7-17). During this four-game run, Chicago has not yielded more than two goals in a single contest. Over the course of the win streak, Marc-Andre Fleury is 4-0-0 with a .959 save percentage, 1.24 goals-against average and one shutout.
Patrick Kane and Riley Stillman extended their respective point streaks on Saturday night against the Ducks. Kane's seven-game run is a season long and he has notched two markers and seven assists during this stretch. Stillman pushed his career-long point streak (1G, 5A) to five games with an assist against Anaheim. He is the second Chicago defenseman this season to post a run of at least four games, joining Seth Jones who has done it on two occasions.

FLOWER POWER

Fleury stopped all 37 shots on Saturday night for his third shutout of the season and 70th of his career. The three shutouts this season share third in the NHL . He became the 14th netminder in league history to reach 70 career shutouts. Fleury is one away from matching Lorne Chabot and Harry Lumley for 12th on the all-time list. Of the goaltenders in the top 14 for most shutouts in league history, seven played at least part of their career in Chicago. In addition, Fleury is the fourth netminder in team history to post a shutout at the age of 36 or older, joining: Tony Esposito (9), Hugh Lehman (6) and Nikolai Khabibulin (2).

BLOCK CITY

Calvin de Haan paced the Blackhawks in hits and blocked shots for the second consecutive game on Saturday. de Haan matched a career high with seven hits on Jan. 4 against the Avalanche. His 24 hits since Jan. 1 share eighth in the league. The Carp, Ontario native matched a season high with six blocked shots on Thursday night (Oct. 13 at COL). He has 17 blocks over his last four games and is seventh in the league averaging 6.59 blocks per 60 minutes (min. 25 games).