CHICAGO — The Winnipeg Jets weren’t just caught in a trap game in Chicago, they were toyed with, chewed up and spit out by the Blackhawks.
Chicago blasted a rather listless, sloppy Winnipeg squad 6-2 at the United Center Thursday, the first of a four-game road swing for the Jets.
The hosts, eliminated from the post-season, had earned just two victories in their previous 10 games and were missing their captain, Winnipegger Jonathan Toews, to an upper-body injury.
They played a kid in goal making his NHL debut and then had to use a beer-leaguer named Scott Foster — a 36-year-old accountant who was kicking pucks out at Johnny's Icehouse iceplex earlier this week — to tend the crease for the final 14 minutes of an NHL regular-season game.