CHICAGO (AP) — Dominik Kahun has turned into a dangerous scoring option for the Chicago Blackhawks.Playing with Dylan Strome and Alex DeBrincat sure helps.Kahun had two goals and an assist http://www.kansascitychiefsteamonline.com/patrick-mahomes-ii-jersey , Cam Ward made 43 saves and the Blackhawks beat the Detroit Red Wings 5-2 on Sunday for their seventh straight win.Chicago’s second line of Kahun, Strome and DeBrincat delivered once again as the Blackhawks continued their surprising push after a lackluster first half of the season. Strome had a goal and two assists, and DeBrincat extended his career-best point streak to eight games with three assists.“It’s working good for us and we just hope that we can keep going,” said Kahun, who has three goals and four assists in his last four games.Strome, who came over in a Nov. 25 trade with Arizona, also put up big numbers while playing alongside DeBrincat with the Erie Otters in junior hockey. Kahun has shown the ability to produce while playing on a couple different lines during his first NHL season.“They made a lot of plays for us,” coach Jeremy Colliton said. “At key times, too.”After Detroit pulled within one in the third period, Patrick Kane responded with his 33rd goal for Chicago. Kane made it 4-2 when he beat Jonathan Bernier low on the stick side with 3:33 left, extending the NHL’s longest active point streak to 14 games.Kane tacked on an assist when Jonathan Toews added an empty-netter with 2:01 remaining. It was Toews’ 25th of the season.Gustav Nyquist and Christoffer Ehn scored for Detroit (21-28-7), which dropped its third consecutive game. Bernier made 31 stops.“Standing at the blue line as a D man and watching guys go by is not good enough,” coach Jeff Blashill said. “Coming back and picking up the wrong guy’s not good enough. I didn’t think there were particularly hard reads. We just had a bunch of guys in my opinion whose brains weren’t going at a high enough level.”The Red Wings were coming off a 3-1 loss at Buffalo at Saturday. Nyquist’s 14th goal got them within one with 4:30 remaining Authentic Derwin James Jersey , but they were unable to run down the surging Blackhawks.It’s the longest winning streak for Chicago (23-24-9) since it won seven in a row from Feb. 19 to March 4, 2017. The crowd of 21,941 — a season high for the Blackhawks at the United Center — roared as the final seconds ticked off.“We’re a tough team to contend with when we’re playing the right way,” Strome said. “We’ve got four good lines, and everyone brings something different to the table.”Chicago got off to a fast start behind Kahun, Strome and DeBrincat, who each had two points in the first period.Kahun scored his 10th goal of the season when he lifted a loose puck over Bernier’s glove at 11:04. Kahun tried to pass to DeBrincat, but it went off Detroit defenseman Danny DeKeyser and right back to him.Kahun then set up Strome’s 14th goal of the season. He skated down the right side and played it into the middle, where his pass went off Strome’s right skate for a 2-0 lead with 1:57 left in the first.“It’s really frustrating and disappointing that we gave away the first period really,” Ehn said.Detroit played much better in the second and broke through after Kane turned it over near the blue line. Ehn skated in and drove a wrist shot from the left point over Ward’s left shoulder 15 minutes into the period.It was the second career goal for the rookie forward. He also scored Dec. 23 at Toronto.The Red Wings put more pressure on Ward toward the end of the period, but the goaltender gloved a loose puck in front to help hold them off.NOTES: Colliton had no update on G Corey Crawford, who joined practice on Saturday for the first time since he suffered a concussion on Dec. 16. “Hopefully he can string a few more good ones together,” Colliton said. … Blackhawks D Carl Dahlstrom was active http://www.sandiegochargersteamonline.com/derwin-james-jersey , and Gustav Forsling was a healthy scratch. Dahlstrom, Forsling and D Slater Koekkoek have been rotating in and out of Chicago’s lineup. … The Blackhawks and Red Wings play again on Feb. 20 in Detroit.UP NEXTRed Wings: Visit the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night.Blackhawks: Visit the Boston Bruins on Tuesday night. TORONTO (AP) — Connor McDavid or Auston Matthews? Auston Matthews or Connor McDavid?With debate ramping up about which player sits atop hockey’s throne — after some remarkable early performances — Maple Leafs coach Mike Babcock’s goes in a different direction — Sidney Crosby.“This is what I think,” Babcock began as he made his case for the Penguins captain before Pittsburgh’s 3-0 victory over Toronto on Thursday. “I think one guy’s got two Olympic gold medals and three Stanley Cups.”And the other guys?“They don’t.”McDavid, the Edmonton Oilers captain with blazing speed, has won back-to-back NHL scoring titles and the Hart Trophy as the league’s most valuable player. Matthews, the Maple Leafs’ deadly sniper, has the most points in the league, 16 in just eight games.McDavid set an NHL record this week by becoming the only player to either score or assist on the first nine goals of his team’s season.Matthews has a lethal shot that often leaves a goalie looking up at the replay for a glimpse at a puck that just whizzed by him. He is just the fifth player to have seven straight multipoint games to start a season.Babcock is quick to acknowledge what these 21-year-old phenoms have done. But he says personal accolades matter only so much.Crosby is 31 and has been on top of the hockey world for the better part of the last decade. He won the Cup in 2009, 2016 and 2017 to go along with gold medals for Canada at the 2010 and 2014 Olympics.Had it not been for the concussions that limited him to 63 of his team’s 164 games between 2010 and 2012, the two-time Hart and Conn Smythe Trophy winner might own even more hardware.Babcock coached Crosby at the Vancouver and Sochi Games, and again at the World Cup of Hockey in 2016, which Canada also won.“Team success in the end, that’s how you’re measured Authentic Aaron Donald Jersey ,” he said. “When you’ve been the best player on the best team, to me that’s totally different than being the best player on a team that’s not as good. As you’ve got people around you to raise your game and set a standard … to me, it’s not even close.”Mike Sullivan became Pittsburgh’s coach during the 2015-16 season and immediately grew to appreciate Crosby’s gifts.“Sid’s the most driven athlete I’ve ever been around,” he said. “Not only is he an elite player, but he’s willing to put the work in to continue to try to be the best player he can be. … I have the privilege of watching him on a daily basis put the work in to be the player that he is.”Toronto center Nazem Kadri says it’s tough to pick among Crosby, McDavid and Matthews.“I still think Sid’s an incredible player and McDavid’s definitely up there,” he said. “(Matthews) is creeping up there. … To me, McDavid’s speed is just incredible and so hard to stop. You can’t necessarily make a mistake when he’s on the ice because when you’re beside him you’re going to be behind him.”Maple Leafs center John Tavares went head-to-head with Crosby for nine seasons while with the New York Islanders.“He doesn’t take anything for granted and his work ethic’s tremendous,” Tavares said. “He puts a lot of commitment into being the player that he is.”Crosby has five assists in six games this season playing on a line with Jake Guentzel and Bryan Rust — the first time he’s gone without a goal this long. But Sullivan’s admiration is undiminished.“He leaves no stone unturned,” Sullivan said. “He takes care of himself physically. He trains so hard, both off the ice and on the ice. We learn as much from Sid as I think he does from our coaching staff with just the way he thinks the game.”