Carcone gets 1st NHL hat trick, Coyotes ease past Blackhawks

TEMPE, Ariz. -- Michael Carcone scored his first NHL hat trick and had an assist, and the Arizona Coyotes defeated the Chicago Blackhawks 8-1 at Mullett Arena on Monday.

Jack McBain had two goals and two assists, Sean Durzi and Liam O'Brien each had a goal and an assist, and Alex Kerfoot had three assists for the Coyotes (4-4-0), who bounced back after blowing a 4-1 lead in a 5-4 loss to the Los Angeles Kings on Friday. Connor Ingram made 29 saves.

“You could see that game against L.A. left a few scars in the sense of the way we started," Arizona coach Andre Tourigny said. "We weren’t as confident as we’ve been, but from there we got our game back and had the pace we’re used to having."

Connor Bedard scored for the Blackhawks (3-6-0), who were coming off a 4-3 overtime win against the Vegas Golden Knights on Friday. Arvid Soderblom allowed seven goals on 22 shots before being replaced in the second period by Petr Mrazek, who made 10 saves.

“We got off our game plan,” Chicago coach Luke Richardson said. “But credit to them, I’m sure they were upset about their last game. We’re still maturing as a team, and maybe we were on our back foot from patting ourselves on the back for coming back in the last game.”

Bedard gave the Blackhawks a 1-0 lead with is fourth goal of the season just 28 seconds into the first period.

“We started off unbelievable and then it's like, 'Well, it’s going to come easy to us,' and as soon as one thing happens bad, it's compounded with another thing and another thing and another thing,” Blackhawks forward Nick Foligno said. “There’s a right and wrong way to play, and tonight everything that could go wrong did.”

Carcone tied it 1-1 at 2:23 with a shot from a sharp angle along the goal line.

Josh Brown put the Coyotes ahead 2-1 at 13:53 before Carcone scored a power-play goal to extend the lead to 3-1 at 15:55.

“We got off to a little bit of a slow start to be honest, but then kind of just settled into the game nicely,” McBain said. “There was no panic. We were kind of able to take it over.”

Carcone completed his hat trick at 5:00 of the second period to make it 4-1. The puck deflected off Carcone’s stick, rolled across the top of the net and deflected down off Soderblom’s back into the net.

Carcone had seven goals in 37 NHL games prior to Monday.

“The NHL is a hard league," Carcone said. "It's not going to happen every night, obviously, and I’m just going to enjoy it, then move on from there because there's a lot of games left."

Carcone, who has alternated between the NHL and American Hockey League the past two seasons, has always had the talent to be an NHL regular, Tourigny said.

“You have to be able to do it every day,” he said. “It means being on your details, playing in the structure … and that’s been the knock on 'Carcs’ in the past. But he’s much better now.”

McBain scored from the slot to push the lead to 5-1 at 6:38 of the second.

Durzi scored his fourth of the season to make it 6-1 at 11:18, and O’Brien's first of the season made it 7-1 at 15:26.

McBain scored his second of the game at 10:37 of the third period made for the 8-1 final.

NOTES: Chicago forward Alex Vlasic (concussion protocol) did not play. … McBain has four goals in his past three games. ... Durzi is tied him with Jakob Chychrun of the Ottawa Senators and Drew Doughty of the Los Angeles Kings for the most goals among NHL defensemen.