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CHICAGO (AP) -- Sitting two games as a healthy scratch last week
might have lit a fire under Chicago Blackhawks winger Eric Daze.
|  | | Tony Amonte is denied here, but later scored his team-high eighth goal of the season in the Hawks' win over Anaheim. |
Daze, who didn't play at Minnesota last Sunday and in Boston
Thursday, scored the game-winning goal early in the third period as
the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Anaheim Mighty Ducks 4-2 Sunday
night.
After intercepting a weak clearing attempt by Anaheim's German
Titov, Daze scored from the left circle at 5:43 of the third and
snapped a 2-2 tie.
"That's the best I've seen him play this year," said Chicago
coach Alpo Suhonen, whose team posted consecutive victories for the
first time this season.
"I've been skating and I've been put on right wing where I feel
more natural," Daze said. "I think in Detroit (a 6-1 Chicago win
Friday), I was coming pretty well."
Daze's goal was only his second this season. It also was his
second point. A week ago, he announced he wanted the Blackhawks to
trade him.
Steve Sullivan, who had two assists, added an empty-net goal
with 36 seconds left and had two assists. Michael Nylander and Tony
Amonte also scored for Chicago, which has won three of its last
four games.
"This is some of the best hockey I've seen us play in a long
time," Amonte said. "It's nice to see us going."
Teemu Selanne and Marty McInnis scored for Anaheim, which is
winless in its last four games (0-2-2).
"Those guys were one step ahead of us," Selanne said. "We
played a hard game last night and took too many penalties. That
killed our energy."
Guy Hebert started in goal for Anaheim, but was replaced after
just 15 seconds by Dominic Roussel, who faced all 37 Chicago shots.
Anaheim coach Craig Hartsburg had intended to start Roussel, but
accidentally circled Hebert's name on the lineup card.
Blackhawks starter Jocelyn Thibault finished with 15 saves.
Nylander opened the scoring 1:51 in when he skated, unchecked,
from the right wing boards and across the slot.
Selanne tied it at 1 with 4:11 left in the first. After circling
the Chicago net, he lofted a backhander over Thibault's shoulder.
McInnis gave Anaheim a 2-1 lead at 4:40 of the second, sliding
in a backhander from the goal line during a pile up in the crease.
Amonte tied it just over two minutes later when he one-timed a
power-play goal from 10 feet.
Daze's scored the game-winner from the left circle at 5:43 of
the third after picking off Titov's clearing attempt.
"It's not what he should've done," Hartsburg said of Titov's
turnover. "He's a veteran player and knows what to do with the
puck in that situation."
Game notes
Selanne has six goals and six assists in his last 12 games.
...Chicago's line of Nylander, Sullivan and Dean McAmmond has been
hot. Sullivan, has four goals and three assists in his last four
games. Nylander has three goals and two assists over the same span.
...Sunday night's crowd was announced as 13,360, but the
20,500-seat United Center was barely half full.
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