As strongly as the Blackhawks have been playing entering Tuesday nights game it was expected that they might see some sort of set back in the near future and it just so happened that the set back would be against the Hurricanes. During the first two periods of the game the Blackhawks looked to have slipped back into old habits with a stagnate offense, poor defensive zone coverage and being dominated in the shot column.
The first period would unfold pretty unspectacularly until the Hurricanes would force Erik Gustafsson to make a turn over at the blue line and would give the Canes a 2-0 chance that they made no mistake with giving them the 1-0.