Blackhawks’ team effort nets big win

ST. LOUIS — The Blackhawks weren’t a one-line team Monday.

While the first line of Jonathan Toews, Patrick Sharp and Patrick Kane have been doing most of the heavy lifting lately, the Hawks got much-needed goals from Dave Bolland and Marian Hossa on the second line and fourth-liner Viktor Stalberg in their 5-3 victory over the Blues.

The first line was solid as usual with Toews and Kane each chipping in their 20th goals of the season.

“You’re not going to win with one line in this league at all,” said acting head coach Mike Haviland. “It shows the depth we have here and that guys can bring it every night.

“That’s what we need to do down the stretch here. It just jump-starts you when other lines start to score and guys get excited on the bench. You could see the whole attitude change when (Stalberg) got that (first) goal. We have to continue to keep pushing each other and challenging each other.”

Toews and Kane have scored at least 20 goals in each of their first four seasons with the Hawks.

Ten different Hawks had points in a 4-goal second period.

“Every single guy has to feel like they can go out there and contribute offensively,” Toews said. “Whether they’re scoring or not they have to bring energy; they have to bring something to the team game.

“We can be a very tough team to beat once we get all four lines rolling. If you only have one or two lines going it makes it tough to go out there and get 2 points every night.”

Logjam at 68:

The win over the Blues was big in a lot of ways. Not only did it put the Hawks among the group of five teams with 68 points in the Western Conference standings, it bumped them 4 points ahead of Columbus and 5 in front of St. Louis.

“That’s a big swing today,” Mike Haviland said.

The Hawks finally were able to follow up a win with a second win for the first time since the middle of January.

“Maybe we’ve let ourselves get too high after a win and all of a sudden realize, similar to today, we’re down 2-0 in a game and try to battle back and we’ve come up short a lot,” Haviland said.

“This could be a big thing to jump-start us here. You feel like it’s coming, but again now we have two and we can’t rest on that. We have to keep pushing ourselves and pushing each other.”

Quenneville watch:

The Hawks played their fourth game without head coach Joel Quenneville, who could make his return to the bench Thursday at Nashville.

Jonathan Toews said the team hasn’t let Quenneville’s illness at such a critical time of the season become a distraction.

“It’s the way a hockey season goes. There’s always going to be things going on outside our locker room that people want to talk about,” Toews said. “Q knows we’re in here sticking to our guns and worrying about our business and that we’re putting our energy and focus on the right things, and that’s going out and winning hockey games.”

Little things:

Right before Marian Hossa’s empty-net goal sealed Monday’s win, Jake Dowell made a key play to save an icing call by beating a Blues defender to the puck.

“My shift before, I didn’t get the puck out when I should have and when (Mike Haviland) put me back out there it was my opportunity to do something good,” Dowell said. “I just tried to get down there and waste some time.”