Antti Niemi made 28 saves against the NHL’s hottest team to get his sixth shutout and the Blackhawks ended Phoenix’s nine-game winning streak Tuesday night, beating the Coyotes 2-0.The win allowed the Blackhawks to take over the points lead in the Western Conference, where they have 99. San Jose has 98 and Coyotes 97.Patrick Kane and Marian Hossa scored second-period goals for the Hawks, who beat the Coyotes for the first time in four meetings this season. Phoenix’s nine-game winning streak that tied a franchise record had included a shootout win over the Blackhawks on Saturday night when the Hawks twice squandered two-goal leads.Kane fired a high shot from the middle of the left circle that eluded Ilya Bryzgalov on the glove side, 1:45 into the second. It was Kane’s team-high 28th goal of the season and gave him 20 points in his past 15 games.Patrick Sharp’s pass between two Coyotes was deflected but recovered by Hossa, who also scored from the left circle for a 2-0 lead at 7:16.Niemi then stopped a point-blank rebound shot by Petteri Nokelainen to preserve the two-goal cushion and later reached around behind his back to thwart a tuck attempt by Taylor Pyatt.Lee Stempniak, who’d scored nine goals in nine games since being traded to the Coyotes, said the end of the winning streak means the Coyotes must start another.Shane Doan skated behind the net and scored an apparent goal to give Phoenix a first-period lead. But the score was disallowed because the Coyotes’ Matthew Lombardi was in the crease.

NOTES—Brent Seabrook returned to the lineup after missing two games with a concussion. He was leveled last Wednesday by Anaheim’s James Wisniewski, who drew an eight-game suspension for the hit against his former teammate. Seabrook got a big cheer in the second when he drove Vernon Fiddler into the boards. He said there were no lingering effects from his injury….The Winnipeg Jets, who moved to Phoenix in 1996, also won nine in a row from March 8-27, 1985….The Blackhawks are 5-4-2 since the Olympic break. They have 10 shutouts this season total…..Brian Campbell, who will miss the rest of the regular season with a broken collarbone and broken rib after a hit from Washington’s Alex Ovechkin on March 14, said he has no target date for a return. There is a slim possibility he could be back, if the Blackhawks go deep into the playoffs.