After falling to the Senators on Friday, the Sharks move back to the United States to take on Chicago at the United Center. San Jose has been okay through the first three games of the road trip, but now face (one of) its toughest opponents on what’s a brutal road swing. The Blackhawks might not be what they were a year ago, but even a slightly muted version of Chicago is one to worry about.

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Tale Of The Tape

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16-15-1	Record	19-11-4
2nd in Pacific	Rank	5th in Central
51.7%	Score-Adj. Fenwick	50.7%
99.2	PDO	100.8
19.4	PP%	22.2
83.0	PK%	82.8

4PM PDT | United Center | Chicago, Ill.
TV: CSN-CA | Radio: SJSharks.com, 98.5 KFOX
Know Your Enemy: Second City Hockey

Projected Sharks Lineup

Dainius Zubrus – Joe Thornton – Joe Pavelski

Matt Nieto – Patrick Marleau – Joel Ward

Melker Karlsson – Chris Tierney – Joonas Donskoi

Tommy Wingels – Tomas Hertl – Mike Brown

Marc-Edouard Vlasic – Justin Braun

Paul Martin – Brent Burns

Dylan DeMelo – Brenden Dillon

Martin Jones

Alex Stalock

Projected Blackhawks Lines

Teuvo Teravainen – Jonathan Toews – Marian Hossa

Artemi Panarin – Artem Anisimov – Patrick Kane

Bryan Bickell – Dennis Rasmussen – Andrew Shaw

Andrew Desjardins – Phillip Danault – Ryan Garbutt

Duncan Keith – Trevor van Riemsdyk

Niklas Hjalmarsson – Brent Seabrook

Rob Scuderi – Michal Rozsival

Corey Crawford

Scott Darling

Last Meeting

The Blackhawks scored five times to upend the Sharks.

Storylines

• The Blackhawks are coming off a back-to-back in which they played at Buffalo yesterday afternoon.
• Barclay Goodrow is back down to the Barracuda.
• First-liner Dainius Zubrus lives on.