Tonight at 9:00 p.m. ET, the Chicago Blackhawks (35-10-14, 84 points) and Phoenix Coyotes (26-20-10, 62 points) go head-to-head live from the Jobing.com Arena for the third and final meeting against each other this season. The game can be live streamed here. Chicago fans can hear all of the hard-hitting action on 720 WGN while Phoenix fans can do the same on KGME 910.
Chicago has won two games in a row and three out of its last four while Phoenix has alternated wins and losses in its last six games. The Blackhawks go for the season sweep after beating the Coyotes 5-4 in a shootout in Phoenix on Nov. 14 and 5-2 in Phoenix on Nov. 30.
The Blackhawks are sending an NHL-high 10 players to the Winter Olympics in Sochi, and have been playing well the last month though they still feel they could be better.
"I feel like the last month or so there was a lot of games that maybe we didn't play so well, but we were close and we just didn't find a way to get an extra point," captain Jonathan Toews said per NHL.com. "These last handful of games on this road trip, we're back to playing that smart team-style game that we want."
Toews is third on the team 55 points off of 19 goals and 36 assists while Patrick Sharp ranks second with 28 markers and 30 helpers for 58 points. Leading scorer Patrick Kane (27-36-63) will miss the game to attend his grandfather's funeral.
The Coyotes are coming off of a 3-1 loss to the Dallas Stars on Tuesday and are searching for some consistency.
"We gotta keep working on it," Lauri Korpikoski told the Arizona Republic. "We got two more games here, and hopefully we can get some points here and feel good about ourselves going into the Olympic break."
The Coyotes have been paced by Mike Ribeiro, who has 39 points off of 14 goals and 25 assists while Mikkel Boedker (15 tallies, 22 helpers) and Radim Vrbata (13 goals, 24 assists) each have 37 points.
Mike Smith will likely play between the pipes for Phoenix and is 19-16-9 with a 2.85 goals-against average and a .910 save percentage while Corey Crawford is likely to start for Chicago and is 22-8-10 with a 2.36 GAA and a .916 save percentage.
The Blackhawks look for their third straight win and to win the season series while the Coyotes will search for some consistency when these teams faceoff tonight live from Jobing.com Arena in Phoenix.
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