Tonight at 9:30 p.m. ET, the Chicago Blackhawks and Minnesota Wild take the ice at the Xcel Energy Center in Minnesota for Game 4 of their Western Conference Round 2 best-of-seven series as part of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Chicago hopes to clinch a series sweep on the road while Minnesota looks to stave off elimination on home ice.
The Blackhawks took Games 1 and 2 in Chicago with 4-3 and 4-1 victories and then won Game 3 with a 1-0 triumph when the series shifted to St. Paul.
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Patrick Kane scored the lone goal of the contest to extend his playoff point streak to six games in Game 3 as he led Chicago to victory. It marked the third straight game in this series that Kane has found the back of the net and it was also his second straight game-winning tally.
The Blackhawks look to oust the Wild for the third straight postseason and to reach the Western Conference semifinals for the third consecutive campaign. The 2010 and 2013 Stanley Cup champions are 13-4 in clinching situations since 2009, but know it's tough to close teams out.
"You're always playing that next game like it's a game you have to win. That's your focus," Chicago coach Joel Quenneville said per NHL.com. "You don't think of the three games after. Right off the bat, we want to make sure we're playing the right way and not waiting for them to come at us."
While the Wild will ultimately need to win four straight games to become the fifth team in NHL history to win a series after falling behind 3-0, the focus is on the first one and that's it.
"We can't be looking at bigger-picture stuff," Minnesota coach Mike Yeo told NHL.com. "It's going to be how we start the game, the mindset that we have and the way that we approach it."
Zach Parise has paced the Wild this postseason with nine points off of four goals and five assists while Mikael Granlund has two tallies and four helpers for six points and Jason Pominville has lit the lamp twice and added three assists for five points.
Kane leads Chicago with 11 points in these playoffs off of six goals and five assists while Duncan Keith has two markers and eight helpers for 10 points and Patrick Sharp and Jonathan Toews each has found the twine four times and added five assists for nine points.
In the blue paint, Chicago turns to Corey Crawford, who made 30 saves for the shutout in Game 3 and is 4-1 this postseason with a 2.52 goals-against average and a .916 save percentage.
Minnesota counters with Vezina finalist Devan Dubnyk in between the pipes and he is 4-5 in the playoffs with a 2.46 GAA and a .911 save percentage.
The Blackhawks look to close the series out with a sweep while the Wild hopes to stay alive when the lights come up on Game 4 live from the Xcel Energy Center tonight in Minnesota as part of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
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