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CHICAGO (AP) — Brendan Perlini’s first career hat trick arrived at an opportune time for the desperate Chicago Blackhawks — and the 22-year-old forward.Perlini scored three goals against his former team Philipp Grubauer Jersey Womens , and Chicago ripped the Arizona Coyotes 7-1 on Monday night for its third straight win.“I just wanted to get the win in general, but to do that was awesome,” Perlini said. “I’ll never forget that one. So move on here and carry the momentum.”Patrick Kane fired in his 41st goal as Chicago moved within five points of the second wild card in the Western Conference. Jonathan Toews, Brandon Saad and Chris Kunitz also scored, and Corey Crawford made 24 saves.Perlini has six goals in his last five games and 11 for the season. He has clicked on a line with Dylan Strome, who joined him in a trade from Arizona on Nov. 25, 2018, for center Nick Schmaltz.Perlini missed on a couple more prime chances before barely tapping in a sliding puck for his third goal with 3.6 seconds left.“I had enough breakaways. God!” he said. “And then I wait ’til the last second there. Just keeping the fans on the edge of their seats.”Arizona had won eight of nine to surge back into the playoff picture. Richard Panik scored against his former team early in the first period, but the Blackhawks took charge midway through the opening frame.“You can’t help but like it http://www.officialoilers.com/authentic-adidas-connor-mcdavid-jersey ,” Chicago coach Jeremy Colliton said. “The last couple (games) have been a big test and we’ve needed the points. Guys have come through with some pretty good efforts. Nice to see them get rewarded for it.”Toews converted a penalty shot in the second period to reach 30 goals for the first time since the 2010-11 season and third time overall.Arizona’s Darcy Kuemper made his 10th straight start, but was replaced by Calvin Pickard after giving up four goals on 16 shots. Pickard blocked 15 of 18 shots.“We just had too many guys have terrible nights,” coach Rick Tocchet said. “It’s beyond me. I didn’t get these guys prepared.”Panik backhanded in a rebound of his own shot from the slot to open the scoring at 4:27. He was set up by Christian Dvorak from behind the net after Carl Dahlstrom couldn’t handle the puck in the Chicago zone.Perlini and Saad then scored 91 seconds apart to put the Blackhawks ahead to stay.After taking a pass from Seabrook, Perlini sprinted past Arizona defensemen Alex Goligoski and Jordan Oesterle and broke in alone. He beat Kuemper on the glove side at 6:38.Saad, parked at the edge of the crease, tipped in Toews’ pinpoint feed from the right corner at 8:09.The Blackhawks pounced on a couple Coyotes mistakes to pull away in the second.Perlini connected again at 3:16 off Strome’s quick pass across the slot after Kane stole the puck from Christian Fischer. Kunitz made it 4-1 from the slot 3 minutes later, converting David Kampf’s feed from a goalmouth scramble after Dahlstrom held in a soft clearing pass in at the Arizona blue line.The goal prompted Tocchet replace Kuemper with Pickard, but it didn’t slow Chicago’s momentum.“They were flying out there,” Tocchet said.“We’ve got to make a stand. We left Pick and Kuemps out to dry.”After Oliver Ekman-Larsson lost the puck Milan Lucic Jersey Kids , Kane fired in Artem Anisimov’s feed across the crease at 8:50 for a 5-1 Chicago lead.Toews was awarded the fourth penalty shot of his career with 5:52 left in the second after being hooked from behind by Jakob Chychrun on a breakaway. He converted the chance with a wrist shot under Pickard’s right pad.NOTES: Toews is 3 for 4 on penalty shots in his career. … Kuemper entered having allowed just 16 goals in his previous 10 starts, a span than included two shutouts. … Colliton said he pulled Anisimov midway through the third period to rest the center.. Chicago F Drake Caggiula (concussion) missed his fifth game. … Chicago traded Panik with F Laurent Dauphin to Arizona in January 2018 for F Anthony Duclair and D Adam Clendening. … Schmaltz is out for the season with a knee injury.UP NEXTCoyotes: At St. Louis on Tuesday night.Blackhawks At Toronto on Wednesday night. TAMPA, Fla. (AP) The Tampa Bay Lightning are on the brink of a return trip to the Stanley Cup Final.Coach Jon Cooper and his players say it won’t be easy to close the deal against the Washington Capitals.”We haven’t won anything yet,” Cooper said Saturday night after Cedric Paquette scored in the opening minute and Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 28 shots to help the Lightning hold off the Caps 3-2 in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference final.Ondrej Palat and Ryan Callahan also scored as the home team won for the first time in the best-of-seven matchup, with Tampa Bay taking a 3-2 series lead and moving within one victory of advancing to the Stanley Cup Final for the second time in four seasons.”Let’s be honest,” Cooper added. ”You’ve got to get four, not three.”The Capitals, in the conference final for the first time in the Alex Ovechkin era, have lost three straight after winning twice on the road to begin the series.Ovechkin scored with 1:36 remaining Oscar Klefbom Jersey , trimming what once was a three-goal lead to one, however Vasilevskiy made three more saves to finish the victory.Game 6 is Monday night in Washington, where Tampa Bay has already won to improve to 5-1 on the road this postseason.”We have a lot of unfinished business. This isn’t even close to being over,” Callahan said. ”This last game’s definitely the hardest against a very, very good Washington team. ”To go in their building and try to close it out is going to be tough.”The Capitals were encouraged by the way they finished the game and are confident they can force the series back to Tampa for Game 7.”This group has got its backs against the wall, and this group has responded all year,” coach Barry Trotz said. ”I don’t expect anything different.”The Capitals won the first two games on the road, scoring 10 goals on Vezina Trophy finalist Vasilevskiy and sending the Lightning – won had the best record in the East during the regular season – into desperation mode.Tampa Bay responded by winning Game 3 in Washington, evening the series despite being outshot and outplayed for sizeable stretches of a 4-2 victory in Game 4 and returning home http://www.officialoilers.com/authentic-adidas-ryan-nugent-hopkins-jersey , where Cooper was confident the Lightning would be better than they were in the first two games.Turns out Cooper was right.Washington’s Dmitry Orlov turned the puck over in the neutral zone on the opening shift of the night and Callahan made the Caps pay for the mistake, feeding Paquette for a 1-0 lead just 19 seconds into the game.Palat’s second goal of the series made it 2-0. Tampa Bay extended the advantage to three goals when Callahan scored 33 seconds into the second period.Outshot 13-4 and limited to one scoring opportunity in the opening period, the Caps began to put some pressure on Vasilevskiy in the second.Evgeny Kuznetsov scored a goal in his fourth straight game, giving him a franchise single-year, playoff-best 22 points (11 goals, 11 assists) and trimming Washington’s deficit to 3-1 at 4:21 of the period.The Capitals kept pressing in the third period, but didn’t breakthrough against until Ovechkin scored his 11th goal this postseason.”It’s not frustrating,” Ovechkin said. ”Of course, when you lose a game you feel bad. We just had a bad start. We didn’t handle the puck in the neutral zone. They got a lucky bounce and put in the first goal. That gave them momentum.””It’s disappointing Ryan Strome Jersey , but I thought our second two periods were great,” Capitals winger T.J. Oshie said. ”We showed a lot of character. Character doesn’t always win you games, but I think it’s going to be important to have that feeling going into Game 6 at home.”Notes: The road team won each of the first four games of a series for the sixth time in the last 10 years and 26th time in Stanley Cup playoffs history. Under that scenario, the road team has won Game 5 only three times. … Paquette’s goal was his first in the playoffs since Game 3 of the 2015 Stanley Cup Final, ending a 34-game drought for the 24-year-old center. … At 19 seconds of the opening period, Palat’s goal was not the fastest to start a game in Lightning history. Adam Hall scored for Tampa Bay 13 seconds into Game 2 of the Eastern Conference final against Boston in 2011. … Capitals winger Andre Burakovsky was a game-time scratch.—