The Latest Breaking News from Seth Jones

Jones scored both the game-tying and game-winning goals, doubling his season goal total in a four-minute span, as the Hawks rallied for a 4-3 victory.

Cech joined Hawks practice on the ice Tuesday after some soccer antics with Mrazek and teammates Monday. The 40-year-old former Chelsea and Arsenal star now plays third-division professional hockey in England.

But the Horned Frogs are 12½-point underdogs, the largest spread for the season finale in nine years of the College Football Playoff.

McCabe played one of his best games Friday and has been arguably the Hawks’ best defenseman all season. But he has become the right player at the wrong time.

Someone from the last-place Hawks had to be chosen, and Jones was the lucky — or unlucky — man. He’s now headed to Florida on Feb. 3-4, but he remains dissatisfied with his actual performance this season.

CHICAGO — Opening their three-game road trip Tuesday night against the league’s worst team, the Lightning had plenty of opportunities to pull away from the Blackhawks at the United Center, but found themselves going into the final period of regulation still deadlocked at 1.

It has been 122 games since a Blackhawks defenseman scored a power-play goal. A particularly dismal power-play performance Saturday — 0-for-5 with two short-handed goals allowed — guaranteed the streak will extends into its third calendar year.

The Hawks were generally clean and efficient in all three zones Thursday. But an inexplicable error by Boris Katchouk and a continued lack of goal-scoring doomed them to a 3-1 loss.

The zone-based “box-plus-one” defensive system that coach Luke Richardson has installed still seems like the best option. The Hawks are just making too many mistakes while trying to follow that structure.

The brothers produced two of their better games of the season Thursday and Friday, albeit in Hawks losses. With Richardson asking them to be more careful when they jump up offensively, they’ve made fewer costly errors lately.

The Hawks’ 3-1 loss Friday represented their 17th in their last 20 games overall and their 14th in their last 17 meetings against Winnipeg.