They played relatively well, as captain Andrew Ladd said, but the Winnipeg Jets couldn't match the power of the defending Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks, losing 5-1. The Hawks scored three goals in the first six minutes of the second period that effectively ended the game.
Chicago's captain and native Winnipegger Jonathon Toews was held pointless in his first game in Winnipeg since the Jets transferred from Atlanta in 2011. He scored a natural hat trick last Tuesday in a 6-5 come-from-behind win versus Ottawa.
Winnipeg fans also gave former Jet netminder Nikolai Khabibulin, now a Chicago back-up to Corey Crawford, a standing ovation and chanted "Habby, Habby" for his past service to the original Winnipeg Jets when his face flashed on the scoreboard in the last moments of the first period when it looked like Crawford may have been injured after Jets winger Blake Wheeler crashed into Crawford when he came streaking down the wing and cut towards the net.
