Recapping the Chicago Blackhawks’ OT win: Goalie Jaxson Stauber makes history, and the Jones brothers join an exclusive club

Friday night’s Battle of the Bottom Feeders Part 2 had a sense of déjà vu, but this time the Chicago Blackhawks were celebrating in overtime after a 4-3 win against the Arizona Coyotes.

That wasn’t the case Tuesday with a letdown in overtime in a 3-2 loss to the Anaheim Ducks. The Hawks arguably outplayed the visitors in both games.

Against the Coyotes, however, the Hawks had an X-factor, an undeniable good luck charm: Jaxson Stauber.

The rookie just can’t seem to lose.

In fact, he became the first goalie in Hawks history to win his first three starts, according to NHL Stats, making 23 saves.

“It feels great,” said Stauber, who made his first start at the United Center. “Obviously it’s a good start. Got to keep it going, though.”

Said coach Luke Richardson: “I know he’s only played three games, but he’s looked really good in the three games. For him, it’s a great start, but it’s just a start just like any young player. I’m sure he wants to continue it. He seems to be very focused.”

There were plenty of gold stars to go around.

The brothers Jones — Seth and Caleb — bookended this win, with Seth putting the Hawks on the board in the first period and Caleb scoring in overtime, sealing the Hawks’ sixth winning rally from a multigoal deficit to tie the New Jersey Devils for most in the league.

Meanwhile, Andreas Athanasiou played like a man possessed, rattling off eight shots and recording a goal and two assists, including on Caleb’s clincher. Athanasiou credited his line with Sam Lafferty, who assisted on his goal, and Colin Blackwell, who had a third-period goal set up by Athanasiou.

“Sometimes the pucks just bounce your way in certain situations and a couple shifts there where, as a line, we were in on the forecheck and were working really hard and skating, and when you do that, you create your own bounces,” Athanasiou said. ”So as a line and as a team, we did that.”

Clayton Keller opened the scoring 1 minute, 28 seconds into the game to give the Coyotes a 1-0 lead. With 7:26 left in the first, Nick Schmaltz made it 2-0 on a cross-crease feed from Keller.

On the Hawks’ first power play, Seth Jones pulled the Hawks within 2-1 with his sixth goal of the season, topping the five he had in 2021-22 in his first season as a Hawk. Boris Katchouk had the primary assist for his first point since notching a goal and assist Jan. 26 against the Calgary Flames.

In the second period, Athanasiou roofed a backhand shot to tie it 2-2.

The Hawks had a series of breakouts that looked promising but couldn’t convert.

With 10 minutes left in the period, Jake McCabe nabbed the puck in the defensive zone and was off to the races, but Coyotes goalie Connor Ingram thwarted the breakaway attempt.

Minutes later, Reese Johnson won a puck battle and led an odd-man rush but the Hawks couldn’t finish, and another loose puck sprung Athanasiou, but he couldn’t stick the wrister.

He made up for it with 5½ minutes left in the game, weaving through defenders to make an attempt that Barrett Hayton blocked, but the carom teed up Blackwell to give the Hawks their first lead.

Nick Bjugstad answered three minutes later to send the game to overtime, but Caleb Jones secured the Hawks win with 1:23 left.

• Call it a ministreak with Seth Jones scoring in consecutive games, but his power-play goal was one of the prettiest he has had as a Hawk. Jones dangled around the outstretched stick of Liam O’Brien and threaded the puck just past Troy Stecher’s skate and under Ingram’s wing.

“I’ve been on him this year to shoot it a little bit more, and he’s been hot lately,” Caleb Jones said. “He’s been telling me the same thing, so hopefully we both keep getting it going here.”

• Maybe the brothers can argue which goal was prettier. In overtime, Caleb Jones collected Athanasiou’s rebound and deposited it in the net with a far-side shot against Ingram.

“That was a nice one he had,” Caleb Jones said. “I’d give it to him tonight.”

• A couple of goals this season have shown that Athanasiou doesn’t need to turn on the jets to be a scoring threat. Against the Colorado Avalanche on Jan. 12, he angled the puck past Pavel Francouz.

On Friday, he dangled in front of Ingram before backhanding a top-shelf shot for his 11th goal of the season. Then in the third, he did more fancy stickhandling to get through traffic to the net and to get of a shot that was blocked, but it allowed Blackwell to clean up the loose puck and give the Hawks their first lead.

• Stauber made his third career start, and you had to figure the odds were against it going as swimmingly as the first two: three and one goal allowed, respectively. Sure enough, he coughed up Keller’s goal 1:28 into the game and two for the period with Schmaltz’s wrister 11 minutes later.

“I wasn’t rattled,” Stauber said of the first goal. “Obviously it’s not an ideal start. But it happens, right?”

Stauber held steady through a scoreless second period and most of the third, but Bjugstad beat him from the slot with 2:27 left in regulation.

Stauber made two big stops in overtime to help seal the win.

He said of one of those saves, against Hayton: “I was actually a little late coming across, so I have to extend. Just got a piece of it.”

• According to naturalstattrick.com, Athanasiou had six individual scoring chances, the most in the game. Richardson called him a “difference-maker.”

“He got a couple of breaks and people made some good plays to him,” he said. “But once he started to feel it, I guess, in the third period, he tore up the middle. I heard him from the bench yelling for the puck, he got the puck and made a play. …

“That’s what we want from our forwards: to skate and demand the puck from the D, not wait and get it from them and then they’re standing still. That’s perfect for his game with his speed.”

• On the first goal allowed, Keller made a cross-ice pass to Jakob Chychrun, and as Schmaltz drifted into the slot, Tyler Johnson and Jason Dickinson moved into position and cut off any centering pass. But that freed up Keller to wheel around to the top of the left circle and fire on Stauber uncontested.

“We want to try and build that wall, cut that pass off,” Richardson said. “Both of them were a little bit low. I’d like to see one of them have their body up a little more so it’s hard to get pucks through.

“As soon as the puck went through I saw Tyler’s head go back, like he knew we were in trouble. I think Tyler slid over in his position and instead of holding the middle, we opened up the ocean there in the middle and they came right down the middle and had a nice shot.”

• Max Domi crashed the net and made a sweet drop pass to Taylor Raddysh for what appeared to be an open-net goal, but it was waved off after Domi clipped Ingram.

“I looked at it a couple of times,” Richardson said. “Max is trying to avoid it, but he’s making the play, so his momentum is just carrying him forward and his leg I think hits his (Ingram’s) pad and lower body even more than any of his upper body was hit.

“But (Ingram) sold it well and it was the right call. … It was just too bad because it was a nice goal.”

• It’s not really a low for the Hawks, but it had to perturb Patrick Kane just a little that Vladimir Tarasenko scored his first goal as a New York Ranger 2:49 into their home game Friday against the Seattle Kraken — and the man who set him up was Kane’s old buddy and former Hawks linemate Artemi Panarin. Kane admitted Friday that he wasn’t “the happiest” when he learned the Rangers acquired Tarasenko instead of him, ruining a potential Kane-Panarin reunion.

Like Seth and Caleb Jones on Friday, brothers have scored goals in the same game plenty of times — 786 instances, according to NHL Stats. But since 2000, only four other games have featured brothers scoring in the same game for the same team with one of the goals taking place in overtime.

• March 21, 2017, Vancouver Canucks at Blackhawks: Vancouver’s Henrik Sedin opened the scoring in the first period with an assist from brother Daniel. Daniel clinched the 5-4 win in overtime with Henrik providing the secondary assist.
• May 13, 2007, Anaheim Ducks at Detroit Red Wings: During Game 2 of the Western Conference finals, Rob Niedermayer opened the scoring with a first-period goal and had the primary assist on brother Scott’s 4-3 OT clincher.
• April 11, 2007, Canucks vs. Dallas Stars: In Game 1 of the Western Conference quarterfinals, Daniel Sedin scored in the first period and Henrik Sedin had the primary assist. It was reversed in overtime, a 5-4 Canucks win.
• March 15, 2007, Canucks vs. St. Louis Blues: Henrik Sedin led off the scoring with a second-period goal, and Daniel had the primary assist. Daniel’s power-play goal, set up by Henrik, capped a 3-2 win.

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“Day 1 of the interview, Day 2 of the interview and Day 3 of the interview. So it was making sure that I understood what I was coming into. Was I ready for all that? I’m like, ‘Yeah, I understand.’ I’ve worked in the American (Hockey) League on developing and young players coming. ... You always have to be ready to change on the fly.”

— Richardson on when general manager Kyle Davidson first warned him that players such as Kane, Jonathan Toews and Domi might be on the trading block

• Toews(illness) is still pegged to return sometime next week, so he won’t join the Hawks for Saturday’s road game against the Winnipeg Jets.

“He’s just going to work out here today and get on the ice by himself,” Richardson said. “If he feels good, he’ll maybe join us (later) on the trip (to Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa). We’re just letting him get his feet wet and get his strength back.”

— Jarred Tinordi(facial fracture) was held out of Friday’s game but looks like a go against the Jets.

“Get fresh legs in tomorrow, against a bigger team too,” Richardson said. “I thought the D’s been playing really well, so I just told him today just to be a little patient. The guys have played well. I know he’s chomping at the bit to get in there — no pun intended for him.”

The Hawks improved to 16-29-5.

The Hawks start a four-game trip Saturday against the Jets in Winnipeg, Manitoba (9 p.m., NBCSCH+).