Morning Box Score: Hawks Beat Phoenix

By Chuck Sudo in News on Mar 21, 2011 2:30PM

Blackhawks playoff tickets go on sale at 11 a.m., but the team needs to take care of business in their final 10 games to make sure they won't be refunding the ticket money. Last night's 2-1 win over the Phoenix Coyotes was a good start. The Hawks got power play goals from Duncan Keith and Chris Campoli, who scored the game winner off a sweet cross-crease pass from Jonathan Toews. Corey Crawford, meanwhile, rebounded from some recent bad play in goal to notch 22 saves, including a strong stop of a near-breakaway by Phoenix's Adrian Aucoin.

Patrick Sharp left the game in the first period after a knee-on-knee collision with Coyotes defenseman Rostislav Klesla. If Sharp, the Hawks second-leading scorer, misses any ice time the next two weeks, it could be critical to their playoff chances. The Hawks currently sit in sixth place in the jam-packed Western Conference.