NEW YORK — Only the Chicago Blackhawks can lose the league's leading scorer and potential Hart Trophy winner and turn it into a positive.
Since Patrick Kane was sidelined for the remainder of the regular season with a broken collarbone on Feb. 22, the Blackhawks are 7-1-1, which includes a workmanlike, suffocating 1-0 win against the Rangers at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night.
If the Blackhawks are going to survive long enough to get Kane back in the lineup, that's likely how they're going to have play most nights between now and mid-May.
Kane, who may not be back until the conference finals, had 64 points in 61 games when he went down a month ago. Even with that missed time, Kane is tied for 10th in league scoring and still leads the Blackhawks in points. The Blackhawks were 11-10-3 in 2015 with Kane and sleepwalking most nights.
That's changed without Kane. What the Blackhawks lost in talent they gained in focus and dedication to the details, and it's translated into success, even if it's not overwhelming, dominant success.
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