Blackhawks-Sharks remaining rating: Hawks’ offensive futility

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The Blackhawks have spent a lot of autumn maligning their incapacity to create second probabilities on offensive possessions. For a lot of Tuesday’s 4-2 loss to the Sharks, they appeared unable to create offensive possessions in any respect, a lot much less translate them into scoring probabilities. Despite an admirable late push, slicing the deficit briefly to 1 purpose, the general effort was once more removed from enough. The Hawks suffered via a stretch of 27 minutes, 42 seconds — lasting from early within the first interval to halfway via the second — with only one shot on purpose. Through two durations, that they had been out-attempted 44-17, although they did eat