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CHICAGO (AP) -- Jocelyn Thibault got all the help he needed.
Thibault made 27 saves for his third shutout of the season and second in four starts as the Chicago Blackhawks beat Toronto 4-0 on Thursday night to end a three-game winless streak.
|  | | Chicago's Jocelyn Thibault was at his best with 27 saves to nail down his third shutout of the season. |
"You can't do it all by yourself," Thibault said. "The guys have to play well in front of you. That's what happened tonight."
Alex Zhamnov and Michael Nylander each had a goal and assist for Chicago, which ended Toronto's two-game winning streak. Anders Eriksson and Bob Probert also scored.
"Our defensive zone coverage and team defense was outstanding," Blackhawks associate coach Lorne Molleken said. "We shut Toronto down and later Thibault was great."
The Maple Leafs are 3-5-0 since March 15, with four of the five losses to teams out of playoff contention.
"It wasn't very good," Toronto coach Pat Quinn said. "They weren't great, but we happened to be worse. We never went to loose pucks and people went right around us."
Eriksson opened the scoring with 1:24 left in the first period, beating screened goalie Glenn Healy with a 50-foot shot.
After Zhamnov was high-sticked by Dmitri Yushkevich, the Chicago forward scored during the ensuing power play to make it 2-0 lead at 5:51 of the second period.
One of Thibault's best stops came with 2:50 left in the second, when he made a point-blank pad save on Mats Sundin.
Nylander made it 3-0 at 1:36 of the third period on a 25-foot wrist shot that went under Healy's blocker. Probert scored at 5:53, deflecting in Steve Sullivan's shot from a sharp angle.
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