Florida @ Chicago preview

Last Meeting ( Nov 24, 2018 ) Chicago 5, Florida 4

The Chicago Blackhawks carry a season-best three-game winning streak into their matchup against the road-weary Florida Panthers on Sunday, loaded with confidence after their rookie goaltender helped shut down the league's top line. Collin Delia stopped 35 shots in his first game of the season and third of his career, and Chicago kept the Avalanche's Mikko Rantanen, Nathan MacKinnon and Gabriel Landeskog off the scoresheet in a 2-1 victory at Colorado on Friday.

"We didn't seem to have as much juice in the legs," Blackhawks coach Jeremy Colliton, whose club won at Dallas 5-2 on Thursday, told reporters. "It was a battle all night, it felt like we were playing uphill but credit to our guys they found a way to survive and we got some timely saves. ..." Florida won at Detroit 2-1 on Saturday to reach .500 by NHL standards with its third victory in the last four games. "I thought we got back to our identity today," Panthers coach Bob Boughner told reporters. "We were fast in the neutral zone instead of going side to side." Chicago prevailed 5-4 on Nov. 24 in Florida behind defenseman Erik Gustafsson's overtime goal in the first of two meetings this season for its third straight victory in the series while the Panthers ride a seven-game losing streak in the Windy City.

TV: 7 p.m. ET, FS Florida, WGN (Chicago)

ABOUT THE PANTHERS (14-14-6): Jonathan Huberdeau (team-high 42 points) had two assists Saturday to record his 12th multi-point game in his last 16, registering five goals and 22 assists during that span. Captain Aleksander Barkov (35 points), who also had two assists versus Detroit, saw his streak of 63 games without a penalty end when he was called for holding. Right wing Evgenii Dadonov (club-most 17 goals, 34 points) scored for the fourth time in the last six games Saturday and has three goals and two assists in his last four contests.

ABOUT THE BLACKHAWKS (13-19-6): Patrick Kane leads the club with 17 goals and 43 points, collecting two tallies and four assists during a four-game point streak. Jonathan Toews (31 points) and Alex DeBrincat (30) have 16 goals apiece with DeBrincat scoring in each of the last two games while recording two assists. Artem Anisimov (seven goals, 17 points) scored Friday for the third time in eight games this month.

OVERTIME

1. Chicago owned the second-worst power play in the league at 12.5 percent entering Saturday but has scored with the man advantage in two of its last three games while Florida boasted the No. 3 unit at 28.1 after going 5-for-12 in its last four contests.

2. The Panthers' penalty-killing unit extinguished all 19 penalties over a seven-game stretch before yielding three in a 6-1 loss to Toronto on Thursday but rebounded with a 4-for-4 effort Saturday while the Blackhawks are 8-for-8 during their winning streak.

3. Florida G James Reimer (5-7-3, 3.48 goals-against average, .888 save percentage) will likely get the start after Roberto Luongo stopped 33 shots Saturday.

PREDICTION: Blackhawks 3, Panthers 2