"By all accounts, it was a quiet game for Patrick Sharp.

He won 4 of 7 faceoffs and had a plus-1 rating, but the Blackhawks alternate captain didn't have a shot on goal and sent four shots wide of the net.

But perhaps the most notable stat from a largely less than noteworthy performance was the 20 minutes, 20 seconds he played in the Hawks' 5-2 victory Saturday over the Columbus Blue Jackets. It was the most minutes Sharp has played in nine games since playing 20:54 in the season opener.

"It's not easy to jump right into it," Toews said of Sharp, who has had his own preseason after missing the Hawks' training camp while recovering from an appendectomy. "Even the first couple games of the regular season there's an adjustment that's already different from the preseason.""