THREE THINGS: Hat-Trick Suter, Hot Spot and Soderberg's Debut

The Blackhawks are rolling, not only with two straight wins over the Red Wings at the United Center -- most recently Sunday's 6-2 victory -- but on offense with 14 combined goals in the last three outings, nearly three times the total from the opening three games of the year.

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"Winning does that to you," Mattias Janmark said of the growing confidence in the group. "We weren't really happy with the game last game, especially the first half of the game. Glad we got out of there with a win and I think we kept building on that today. Today was a much better game and it's nice winning, but we we're going to (face) a challenge on the road here again and we've got to start winning and climbing the board here."
"Even more so than the win, just kind of how we seemed to piece together our game today a little better than did the last game against Detroit to start in the first," added Connor Murphy, who scored and assisted on the afternoon. "At this point in the year, it's important to keep growing as we talked about in Florida, wanting to make sure our team game gets a little bit better that that we all seem to mesh and grow and put something together here."
Pius Suter scored his first NHL hat trick in the victory, while Murphy, Janmark and Kurashev all found twine as well. Kevin Lankinen drew in goal for a third straight game and got his second consecutive victory with 25 stops on the afternoon.

Here are three takeaways from the win:
HAT-TRICK SUTER
Following his first NHL point on Tuesday in Florida with an assist (and a called-back spectacular setup for Patrick Kane earlier in that game), Pius Suter found the other part of the scoresheet in a big way for the first (and second and third) time on Sunday. The Swiss forward scored his first two NHL goals within a span of 5:02 in the first period against Detroit, and completed the hat trick in the third period with a wrister off a rush.
"I was happy to get the first one, finally. It made it easier after and then off the second one, I felt like, 'Yeah, now you need to get the third,' especially when the second one is that early," Suter said. "I had some chances and at the end it worked out. It was a great feeling. It was a great feeling. Fun, gave me some confidence, too. It's a great start of something. Keep going."
"I think he's skating better. I think he's improved his mobility from last year to this year. He's a very smart player. He's really good around the net. But I think his skating, it's allowed him to drive play and get through the neutral zone and get out of D-zone," said head coach Jeremy Colliton. "Obviously he's playing with a couple of good players (Alex DeBrincat and Patrick Kane), but he can help them get out of D-zone and get attacking on the rush, in the offensive zone. It can really help us. It was a very strong game for him."
With the trio of goals, Suter became the second Blackhawk all-time to score his first three career tallies in the same game (Bill Kendall, 1933). He also joined Art Somers (Nov. 21, 1929) as the only Blackhawks to register a hat trick within the first six games of their NHL career.
"He's a great guy in front of their net," Janmark said. "The first two goals, he finds those open spaces and it's really nice for him to score those goals and it's big. I told him after the game, 'Imagine if there would have been fans there it would have been awesome.' Great night for him and hopefully he can get better, too."
"He's crafty," Murphy said. "The guys that can separate and make plays have that intelligence and ability to read the ice and read the play and kind of control the way that the rushes are sorting out -- he showed that tonight and had that awareness to get the pucks by guys on the rush or even around the net, that touch to get it through. That's important and it's impressive to see just starting out in the NHL. We're lucky to have him."

HOT SPOT

Three of Chicago's first four goals on the afternoon came from nearly the same four square-feet of space on the United Center ice: the corner of the crease to Red Wings netminder Jonathan Bernier's left.

The opening goal was a result of Suter driving the net and converting a rebound and the other two -- Suter's second and Janmark's third-period tally -- both the result of a cross-slot feed after offensive-zone movement. Even Philipp Kurashev's finally tally was from a similar stretch of ice, cleaning up his own rebound while walking out from the corner.
"(Alex DeBerincat) made a good change, so I got in when we had possession and I saw Kane got it," Janmark described of his tally. "I think at first you try to get away from the net and try to get away from all the coverage because they're so focused on him, and then kind of time it to where he goes around the other side and then try to get open backdoor there. Just a great play by him."
"It starts with having a net-front. If we have someone in front, any puck to the net can become a chance," Colliton said. "We work to get inside and get pucks there, but finding a way to keep the puck a little bit more, be an option in the offensive zone, I think we're improving there. We want to create more, but the last couple games, we've had some more chances. It's nice to find a way to come through with some more goals."

RIGHT IN

With just two practice days with his new team under the belt, Carl Soderberg made his Blackhawks debut on Sunday, slotting into the lineup in place of Lucas Wallmark with Andrew Shaw and Mattias Janmark on the third line, as well as onto the second penalty kill unit.
Soderberg, who arrived in Chicago nearly two weeks ago following immigration delays and then a mandatory seven-day quarantine period, played 13:18 of ice time, 3:39 of PK time, went 4-for-9 on the draw, had two hits and one blocked shot.
"He was solid," Colliton said. "It's going to take him a little bit to get his skating legs and his game legs, but I thought that line was good. They were solid. We're looking for (that line to be) professional, hard to play against, make good decisions, move the puck forward, force the other team to defend, wear them down -- I thought they did a good job there."