(MCT) — CHICAGO — The only points awarded to the Blackhawks’ third line in a shootout loss Tuesday would have come via the amateur rink-side judges during Bryan Bickell’s brief second-period fracas, with everyone checking on the proper scoring for delivering a spinebuster takedown to the ice.

Otherwise production has been far less theoretical and subjective in the first 13 games. That so-called checking line has offered two-way production and conjured thoughts of the same line, with different personnel, doing the same things en route to a Stanley Cup title three years ago.