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(SportsNetwork.com) - The Chicago Blackhawks will try to get another winning streak started on Tuesday night as they take on the rival Minnesota Wild for the first time this season. The Blackhawks had a season-high eight-game winning streak snapped with a road loss to the New York Islanders on Saturday, but bounced right back the following day with a 2-1 win over the visiting Calgary Flames. Chicago took advantage of a Calgary miscue to score the winning goal with 7:03 to play in the third period. The Flames Johnny Gaudreau fell down and lost control of the puck just inside the Chicago zone, triggering a counter rush for the Blackhawks. Jonathan Toews then dished to Brandon Saad, who scored glove side on the breakaway. It was perfect, Saad said of Toews pass. It was a great play. Toews also assisted on Patrick Sharps goal, while Antti Raanta made 23 saves. Raanta played for the first time since Dec. 5 as rookie Scott Darling had started each of Chicagos previous four games. The two have been manning the crease with No. 1 goaltender Corey Crawford out with a lower-body injury. Raanta lost the only time he faced the Wild, giving up two goals on 19 shots, while the rookie Darling has never faced them. Minnesota looks to finish off a three-game road trip with another win, having bested the Arizona Coyotes in a shootout on Saturday after losing the opener of the swing in San Jose last Thursday. Zach Parise scored a game-tying goal on the power play with 5:53 left in regulation on Saturday, then scored in the shootout along with Mikko Koivu for a 4-3 win. I thought that our guys, not only the urgency, the way that we executed and I thought it was a good job, Wild coach Mike Yeo said. Nino Niederreiter and Jason Zucker also scored and Niklas Backstrom made 26 saves for the Wild, who are looking to win consecutive games for the first time since a four-game run from Nov 13-20. They have split their past 11 games. Minnesota was without defenseman Jared Spurgeon on Saturday due to illness. He did not practice on Monday nor did he travel with the team to Chicago, while fellow blueliner Keith Ballard remains out with a concussion and facial fractures suffered last Tuesday. Defenseman Marco Scandella, though, is eligible to return from a two-game suspension handed down following an illegal hit versus the New York Islanders a week ago. Minnesota returns home to face Boston on Wednesday, so Backstrom and Darcy Kuemper could both see action over the next two nights. Kuemper is 1-0-0 with a 1.22 goals against average and .959 save percentage in two games (1 start) versus the Blackhawks, while Backstrom is 6-9-1 with a 2.82 GAA and .913 save percentage against them. This is the first of five meetings between the Wild and Blackhawks this season. Minnesota went 3-1-1 versus Chicago in 2013-14. Walter Payton Jersey . The announcement was made by the hall on Friday, March 14. 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The game is also avialable on TSN Radio 1290 in Winnipeg at 7pm ct.Got a question on rule clarification, comments on rule enforcements or some memorable NHL stories? Kerry wants to answer your emails at cmonref@tsn.ca. Hi Kerry, So Shawn Thornton gets a slap on the wrist for the water squirting incident - a childish, unsportsmanlike and potentially dangerous act, but players can get two minutes for spraying the goalie with snow when sometimes inadvertently just trying to stop quickly? In your opinion, should the NHL ever consider taking a more serious look at such actions and add them as an infraction in the rule book? Mike Cimba Mike: The Player Safety Committee should be commended for their swift action to impose the maximum permitted fine under the CBA ($2,820.52) against Shawn Thornton for his childish, television viewer unsightly, unsportsmanlike and potentially dangerous act of water bottle squirting at PK Subban. I am quite sure an incident of this nature will never happen again given the maximum allowable supplementary discipline and public humiliation that has been imposed against Thornton (sic sarcasm intended). Now that this bug on the visor of Subban has been wiped clean and severely dealt with, perhaps the PSC, Hockey Operations and the Officiating Department can focus their attention on more important issues that have been continually exposed to this point in the playoffs? For starters Mike, additional rules dont need to written until the ones that already exist are more consistently enforced; or even just applied. If the referee determined that Subban had been legitimately interfered with by a spray from a water bottle in Thorntons hands (Heaven forbid) the ref could have applied a broad interpretation to rule 56.2: a minor penalty shall be imposed on any identifiable player on the players bench or penalty bench who, by means of his stick or his body, interferes with the movements of the puck or any opponent on the ice during the progress of the play (Thorntons hands are attached to his body). Likewise, the same rule 75 - unsportsmanlike conduct, that is applied (sometimes) against a player deemed guilty of deliberately snow-showering a goalie could also be imposed in the case of a player deliberately squirting water in the face of his opponent. With the multitude of infractions that are being let go throughout extended portions of these games I cant imagine any referee imposing a penalty for this squirt of liquid. With regard to player safety however, it appears to be a serious and unwanted element of the game. So too was diving/embellishment once upon a time. Embellishment was deemed a plague within the game and language was added to rule 64.3 that provided authority for Hockey Operations to review game videos and assess fines to players who dive or embellish a fall or a reaction, or who feign injury regardless if a penalty was called on the ice. The punishment for the first such offence during the season wiill result in a warning letter being sent to the player.dddddddddddd The second such incident will result in a $1,000 fine. For the third such incident in the season, the player shall be suspended for one game, pending a telephone conversation with the Director of Hockey Operations. For subsequent violations in the same season, the players suspension shall double (i.e. first suspension - one game, second suspension - two games, third suspension - four games, etc.) When was the last time you read that a player had been fined for diving/embellishment let alone suspended? I have seen some known offenders embellish as many as three times in one game during these playoffs. Im not suggesting for a second that players should be suspended for the letter of the law that this rule empowers Hockey Operations. What I am suggesting is to focus on the real important issues beyond a squirt from a water bottle. Lets start with an acceptable and expected standard of enforcement from the referees throughout a playoff game that is more consistent with those employed during the regular season. The rulebook has not changed from the regular season but the application and standard of enforcement by most of the referees clearly has. Powerful stick slashes that broke a players stick was almost always called; as the playoffs progress they are seldom called and have even resulted in goals being scored. Obvious infractions have been let go; major infractions have been let go or deemed to be a minor penalty. The latest such example was the major boarding infraction by Brandon Bollig on Keith Ballard that was deemed to be a minor penalty by the referee on the ice. Bollig was subsequently and correctly suspended for two games by the Player Safety Committee for this dangerous hit that injured Ballard. As far as I am concerned they got in wrong by not responding in kind to the chicken-wing elbow delivered by Jared Spurgeon of the Wild to the head of Marcus Kruger. Kruger was pulling his upper body back and up after shooting the puck on goal. Spurgeon was going to miss his intended check and responded by leaving his skates and extending his elbow to initiate contact with the head of Kruger. Kruger staggered of the ice and went directly to be evaluated in the quiet of the Hawks dressing room. Spearing incidents and howdy-dos between the legs have on occasion resulted in the assessment of penalties. Sidney Crosby provided a pretty good howdy to Dominic Moore that went un-penalized and resulted in a scrum at the end of the second period in yesterdays Rangers 3-1 win over the Penguins. In an attempt to keep all things in perspective, it would appear that a squirt off the bench with a water bottle will result in the maximum allowable fine being levied by the Player Safety Committee. Perhaps just a letter to Thornton would have sufficed; all things being equal? ' ' '