Connor Bedard, Chicago Blackhawks DROP first Preseason Game to Red Wings | CHGO Blackhawks POSTGAME

Connor Bedard, Chicago Blackhawks DROP first Preseason Game to Red Wings | CHGO Blackhawks POSTGAME

The Hawks lose the preseason opener 3-2 in Detroit. Cancel the season. Hawks suck. Season over. We’re not doing this. We’ll wrap it up next on the CHGO Blackhawks postgame show. We’re done. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] One down, five to go in the Blackhawks preseason as they lose 3-2 in Detroit to the Red Wings B team. Welcome in to the CHGO Blackhawks podcast postgame show. I’m Jay Zawaski. That’s Mario Turbosi with his RC Cola. I’m drinking my sorrows with RC Cola. Well, I’m being discriminated against. A soft drink. Just me and my RC. Yeah. No. Uh, no. Zero sugar. So, I guess I’ll just die. I mean, you could drink the regular. No, I can’t. I will die. You could just eat bread. I mean, what would you what would you rather do? Watch this Hawks team again or drink regular RC cola? That’s There’s no doubt about that one. Well, thanks for being with us everybody. We appreciate it. Do us a favor. Hit that like button for us. Make sure you are subscribed to our YouTube page as well. If you’re listening on the podcast, we love you. We thank you. Thanks for doing that. Leave us a fivestar review on your favorite uh podcast app and all that good stuff. Um, all right. Well, it’s preseason. It was a 3-2 loss. It felt like a preseason game, but boy, when I was looking at this uh the rosters for the Hawks and the Red Wings said, “Wow, the Red Wings really are not doing much for their fans with this one.” And this is really the B squad. And that B squad took it to the Blackhawks for the better part of 60 minutes. For yeah, 40 of the 60 minutes was dominated uh by this Red Wings team. And I would say like going into this game, I looked at the rosters and thought pretty comparable like as far as what to expect. Blackhawks are playing a lot of the young guys. A lot of them are in NHL roster battles. Um, but the Red Wings, I mean, they, you know, they had a lot of their their young players in there, too. Um, Shai Buham was in there. Uh, Michael Bransic Nygard, uh, was all over this game. Axel Sandy Pelica, like they had a lot of their their young guys in there playing and and they played pretty well. Um, but yeah, I mean, I I expected this game to feel disjointed, sloppy. Yeah. like you you look at the you know you look at the scrimmage game uh looked a lot like that and it and it felt like wow these guys probably have not played a lot together in a five on five full speed setting and it it looked evident tonight the first period I will say it gave you a lot to get excited about because that was the first period where the guys were fresh they were they were humming they controlled a lot of the play so it gave you a glimpse of like when those players feel like they’re at the top of their game, they’re going to create chances. And I I think if in in a in a setting like this where you can’t take a lot of the big picture away from this game, you want to take away little things. And at least for me, a good little thing to take away is that when the team is clicking, they’re going to be fast. Yeah. And they’re going to be exciting to play against. at least this collective of players, which they should be cuz these were basically all of Kyle Davidson’s picks who he’s tried to create a team that is fast, exciting, and hard to play. Yeah, the speed is evident. And I mean, look, Conor Bard had a really solid game, scored a goal for the Hawks, also finished uh 17 and lost three faceoffs. Not bad. So 70% for Nad. And you know, if it’s preseason, we’re going to freak out about the bad stuff. It’s preseason, we got to point out the good stuff. I mean, Conor Bard had a good game, looked fast, had a couple really solid back checks. I saw one, I go, “Was that Bard backing uh towards the end of the game, Arvid Solder Bloom was great, but look, there are some things that need our attention here.” And we have been waiting all summer for a preseason game to analyze, and we’re not going to overanalyze it, but there’s some things that need to be discussed. I think that yes, well, I don’t think yesterday I said very definitively that I thought Ethan Delastro had a significant lead in the uh battle for the last defenseman on his team spot. And I think he may have lost that today because he had two bad turnovers in the first period alone, several more as the game went on. Some passes that were just to no one or three or four feet off the stick. And look, everybody’s rusty. Everyone’s probably a little bit jittery first game, new coach trying to make an impression. All those excuses are there, but the Red Wings were in the same boat, right? They’re trying to earn spots, these young players. They’re trying to make first impression. They’ve got the pressure of playing at home and they want to put on a show for the fans. So, I don’t want to just excuse everything as to, oh, it’s just Rusty. It’s just Rusty. You want to see these high drafted guys perform and play well. And look, I think Ardm Lev settled down as the game went on. third period, I thought he was moving the puck very well, but a horrible read in the second period gives the Red Wings a breakaway. Um, there were just lots of just everything was off. Everything was off from the entire team. Uh, this is why you play the preseason. It’s the first game these guys have played since April, so some rust is to be expected. But just something to keep an eye on as this goes forward because look, we know these young guys are going to play and there’s going to be nights that look like this during the NHL season. So, I don’t know. I just I was a little I was disappointed especially in in Delmas tonight because I I feel like he had done a really good job throughout camp of like really solidifying a spot that I don’t think that he was in the lead to take. I’m I’m not open. Yeah, I’m not going to say any roster battles are um over tonight because collectively as a group the defenseman were underwhelming. I know Wyatt Kaiser scored. I know there were some some decent moments from guys like Renzel and and and yeah, Levchinov’s play got a little bit better as the game went on, but I’m Ethan Delro didn’t win an NHL job tonight. Kevin Kchinsky didn’t win an NHL job tonight. Um, I I I think you look at how the defenseman played and there was one thing that I’m going to attribute a lot of this game to is these guys are getting used to Blash system and you saw it specifically on the power play or on the penalty kill penalty kill rather because I I I think what we saw tonight was a lot of young players who were trying to play past trying to make an impression and thinking a lot. That’s a that’s too much. That’s too many things happening in young hockey players minds at the same time. Yeah. And I think you you threw the guys into the setting and you know, you’re juiced up. It’s it’s the first preseason game. A lot of these some some of these guys it might be the only preseason game they play. Um, and I I I think you you just kind of get a it’s it’s a lot for those young guys to try and like handle all at the same time. Some of them can do it. Like Bard, I feel like had a really solid game, but that’s a guy who’s who should not be rattled by a moment like this. Frank Nazar had a a lot of good moments in in a game like this as well. He’s not a guy that should be rattled by any anything like that. But I think you look at like Riel and and Doc and Moore and you know all the pretty much all the defenseman. None of them have a locked up spot. The the defenseman that played tonight that had the most like locked up spot that I would say is Lu Krevier because he’s going to be like the seventh defenseman. You know, Renzel and Lev have to like earn earn those NHL spots. You want them to earn it. But yeah, I I I think there was just like a lot of that going on tonight. And I hope as the preseason goes on and more of the NHL veterans start to get thrown into the lineup, a little bit of that aspect of all like the young guys, all of them trying to do a little bit too much. All of them doing a little bit too much thinking that starts to kind of subside. The veterans go in there, they can be a little bit more of a calming presence in those settings. And then things start to kind of gel and you might you start to see a more cohesive unit playing as we get to preseason’s games three, four, five, six. You also I mean you had a team first preseason game take five penalties and I think probably three of them were like okay come on like what what are we calling here? But they called them and that puts you on your heels. It takes Bernard off the ice. It takes your more offensive minded players. It taxes your samaranzels and your lefto on the penalty kills. So when they do get the even strength, they’re not quite as ready to engage. Like when the penalties started piling up is when the game started getting away from the Hawks. I mean you could look 1247 of the first, 1840 of the first, 1509 of the second, 1920. Like it would they they just spent so much time short-handed that it was tough to get back into the thing and find their and find their their legs. Look, um there’s there’s nothing to really freak out about today. There’s not. And I can’t tell if like the chat’s being serious or sarcastic. I think we probably have a little bit of both about what? Just the game in general. My favorite part about the chat is most people are telling everyone to calm down. Yeah. So, I haven’t actually seen too many freakouts that seem serious and it’s mostly just people telling other people to calm down, even though I don’t even think anyone’s being that overreaction. I Well, I do enjoy our chat does a good job of pleasing itself. Oh, yeah. When things get when trolls come in, they usually get shot down pretty quickly. Um, but yeah, so I for the large part, it’s first preseason game. This is what you expected. A lot of people like Bard’s play. A lot of people were impressed with obviously Soder Bloom just getting pelted with Yeah. I think like Renzel had a fine game. He had moments of good and bad. I would say Lefchov had a bad game. Del Master had a bad game, but Nazar looked good. Betard looked good. I thought Oliver Moore looked good, was making things happen. So, I think it’s just time to, you know, once these like Vanackers and those kind of guys head back to junior and they you can get more of a focused NHL roster and you’ll have a little bit better impression of what’s the actual team’s going to look like. And someone in the chat said the biggest winner of this game is Matt Grizzlick. Um, and that really could be true because if if none of these left side defenseman win a spot and I don’t think Kchinsky or Del Master did anything to help their cause today, M. Grizzl is right there. Yeah. And there’s no long-term commitment to him. You sign him to a one-year veteran minimum and then as soon as you feel like they’ve had enough time in the minors, you call somebody up and you move on from Macros. Like that’s easy to do. So, we’ll see. Look, it’s one game. Let’s give it some time here. But, uh, I I think for a lot of us, and I’ll point to thumb myself, too, like we’ve all been anticipating this game for a long time. We all made plans to sit down and watch it, and we were all excited about the game coming, and then they they lay an egg. They get outshot 43 to 17. And that’s if you told me that before the game, I that’s not what I would have predicted. Maybe I wouldn’t have predicted a win, but this game should have been close in terms of the numbers and the chances and those sort of things. And you know, you could take away the all strength thing because Detroit had so many power plays, but at five on five, you know, it’s shot attempts are 3718 for Detroit. Like that’s you got to have more than 18 shot attempts in 60 minutes. That’s just not that’s not going to do it. Yeah. So yeah, I mean I the the the first period if you’re talking about five on five numbers that first period the Blackhawks had five high danger chances to the Red Wings one. They had two high danger chances in the two periods after that and not only at five on five but all situations. Um that that first period they had uh seven scoring chances to Detroit’s two at five on five. The next period, Detroit had 12 five on-5 scoring chances to the Hawks one. In that second period, the Red Wings had more five-on-5 scoring chances than the Blackhawks finished with 11. So, it’s you go into the the the more, you know, analytics of the game, it it widens your eyes to just how much the Blackhawks were chasing this game. Um the penalties don’t help them. Uh there was a a point in the game where uh like Nazar and Levinov and Kaiser like they were out there for like two minutes and just getting worked in in their own zone. Um if if Arvid Solderbloom did not show up tonight uh in the fashion that he did, this game would have been way worse than 3 to2. Which is funny because if you were to if you at 6:00 were to come back from the future and say and all you all you said was Hadard scored, Kaiser scores, they lose three to two. I’d be like, “All right, like I’ll okay, that’s fine. I’ll take that.” Yeah. But it’s the way it looked was like that was the rough part of it. But I think I hope it’s only up from here as far as the preseason goes. And like we said, like this group is not going to be the NHL group. Parts of it will be. Yeah. Um, but I think as preseason goes on, as the roster wittleles down, as you get more time to work with system and kind of you still get to learn now, you get some actual video session of the system in practice in the game. um rather than watching, you know, last year’s Tampa Bay Lightning or watching the old Detroit Red Wings when Blash was the head coach, like you get to actually see your team in practice and you can see like, okay, you can go through video sessions and have tangible things to point out as good and bad and learn from it. Well, we’re going to hit the break zone. Let’s get into those systems a little bit when we come back. I do want to talk about the penalty kill. I know we got into it quickly, but uh a little bit in in more detail. 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Yeah, everyone’s got a lot of room and I think there was some confusion out there. You saw some guys kind of looking around about where to be. Um, the first goal, Renzel is at the net. He’s got his guy defended. And then there’s another Redwing just right there alone. And the closest guy is Ethan Delmro who’s on Renzel’s side. And look, I don’t know if it was his blown to Simon or not. I’m not blaming him, but I’m just saying he’s the closest guy. He tried to close that gap and was still three, four steps away once that puck went in. They just got to solidify things. And Jeff Flashel said yesterday uh at practice basically, hey, it took, you know, the Tampa Bay Lightning a month to get used to my power play, right? Penalty kill. Penalty kill, I’m sorry. And it started off rough and then once they got used to it, it was one of the best in the league. It was the best. There is going to be a learning curve here for the Blackhawks and Jeff Blill. Um, so that’s why I really want to kind of see with a new coach and you pretty much know your roster for the most part. It’s a six game preseason. Whatever they want to do Saturday, fine. But I think Sunday and beyond, the last four, it’s got to be the guys either on the team or vying for a spot because look, you’re trying to not finish last year. You’re not trying to make the playoffs. trying to try and win the cup. But I think getting this season off to a good start, at least a start that makes you feel like, okay, you know, we’re 500 after 10 or hey, we won a couple games unexpectedly or oh man, we just came up short and battled hard. You want good vibes. You don’t want to immediately feel crushed to start the season. And I feel like that’s what happened last year was the preseason sucked. They were awful in the preseason, but we said, “Ah, you know, they’re veterans. They’re only going at 60%. Once the once the, you know, puck drops in the regular season, they’ll find that extra gear and the vibes were off from the first week of the season and they never really bounced back until after the trade deadline when all these young guys came up. I think with the implementation of a whole new system, a whole basically a whole new coaching staff, you’ve got to let your you’ve got to get your veterans, you got to get your NHL team out there a little more often. Yeah. And I think maybe what they could benefit from, they had one scrimmage yesterday, right? What they could benefit from is maybe more of those situations, being able to play more of five on five uh scenarios where you’re implementing that system at what would be basically full game pace with the guys that you’re expecting to play with. Like I I I think that can that could potentially be something that they could do. And look, I’m not I’m not Jeff Blashel. I’m not Mike Pekka. I’m not Mike Valuchcci. Like I I that’s this is just me spinning my wheels. But I think if we’re looking to try and avoid how the season started last year coming out of the preseason like you were talking about and what it could benefit from I think is more of that like okay this group playing together playing this system in game scenarios. I I I I I know that there is a lot of like drilling that can be done for what Blash’s trying to do, implementing, you know, the systems individually and and they’re going to do that. But I think they I think what this first game could maybe show is let’s do a little bit more of simulated game scenario implementation rather than just drill uh drilling it and then saying okay now go out and do it in a game. It’s really easy to skate past Chris Kunit who’s got a stick out just trying to create something for you to skate through. Right. Right. Those drills are easy and you can look sharp, you can look ready to go. Even in a scrimmage, you can look a little bit better. They didn’t, but you can. You cannot simulate game situations. You can’t. You simply cannot, right? You can’t do it in like a threeon two setting or a small ice setting. Like, those are all valuable. I’m not I’m not discrediting I’m not discrediting how they practice, but what I’m saying is like I feel like now that you’ve kind of gone through a week and now a game under the system, now let’s start drilling a little bit more of that in the system. And this isn’t this isn’t, you know, a a junior high team where you’re implementing a system and they’ve never played a system before. You know, I’m only used to just going out there and just freelancing and running around and what like these are professionals, a lot of them. Um, or these are guys that have played highlevel college and junior like a lot of the tactics and a lot of the the the X’s and O’s, they can understand pretty you’d be able to understand it pretty quickly. So, it’s not like you’re you’re reinventing the wheel. So, I would think being able to do that a little bit more in five on five scenarios would be would be beneficial. We’ll see if they end up doing it. Who knows? Um, but I mean, far be it from a guy like Nick Felino to speak up and say like, “Hey, we think we’d benefit from a practice like this or maybe we need to do that.” Like, he’s a guy that I think can be a resource to Blash and the staff. Yeah. For connecting and and knowing what might work for this group because he’s been a guy that’s been around for a few years. Well, this by the way is taking the temp presented by your trusted local experts at Four Seasons Heating, Air Conditioning, Plumbing, and Electric. Visit Four Seasons Heatingcooling.com for all their special offers and money-saving coupons. That’s four seasonasons heating cooling.com. I I don’t think that we are anywhere near a point where Nick Fino needs to intervene with Jeff Lel. Like, it’s one preseason game and a roster full of kids and a brand new system. And I think your point, Mario, is correct about yes, the X’s and O’s are not foreign to these guys. is they’ve probably all played this system at some point in their hockey careers. But the other part of it is you’ve got to learn to communicate with each other. You’ve got to start to learn the tendencies of your teammates. Sam Renzo and Ethan Delastro have been playing together for three days, a week at, right? Like they have not been on the ice a lot together. They’re thrown out there for a game and they’ve got to start to learn the tendencies of each other. And look, like Renzelda had no time in Rockford, so he had no time to play with with Ethan Delastro. So if Lashel sees those guys as the opening night tandem, then they should play together. If those if if Renzel’s in a preseason game, Del Mastro should be too. Those two together, playing together, because if that’s the plan, the only way to truly learn your teammates and their tendencies is in-game situations. you just can’t simulate game speed, game intensity in practice because the stakes are lower, right? Like even if you’re even if you’re scrimmaging as hard as you can, even if you’re doing your absolute best and and and communicating with your teammates and everything, even if that’s the case, there’s no stakes in if your team gives up a goal because you could always just sort of like chalk it up like I took a risk there. I wouldn’t take in a game, right? You’ve got to let these guys play together, learn their learn chemistry, learn their tendencies because look, it is there’s a lot of turnover on this roster from last year with all these new players coming up. So, I think you really got to get a consistent NHL ready lineup. Give the kids another look Saturday and then, you know, let’s let’s start to strap it in and get ready for the regular season here. Yeah. I I I I think and we were talking about it um in in the break just kind of looking at um some other rosters from around the league from from games tonight. Montreal’s I think tonight was their third preseason game and they had basically 70% of their NHL roster and and if it wasn’t NHL guys, it was guys that are probably on the cusp of NHL AHL. So, as we get to that point with the Blackhawks, game three, game four, and as the roster wittleles down, you’re going to finally get to those spots where it’s just like, okay, these 30 guys are are fighting for the NHL spots. And that’s when that’s when you want the team to feel like they’re getting it and they’re starting to like not hit the ground running, but they’re starting to get it. and the pace is starting to pick up because you want to be able to feel like you’re already like ready to go over ripened basically in the preseason by the time you hit the ice on October 7th cuz it’s the Panthers. Like you can’t like you like you can’t have a team that’s just like ah we’re still trying to get there cuz then you’re going to get waxed seven to one right on that game. So, I I I would hope that and yeah, as people are saying like a lot of this roster, they’re either going to go back to juniors, maybe as soon as tonight or tomorrow morning, we’ll get that announcement. Um or these are these are guys that are maybe a little bit further down the pecking order of the NHL roster battles. So, it’ll be like they’ll go to they’ll go to Rockford, like Amiziac, like um Aiden Thompson like might be going to Rockford like I don’t I don’t We know Dominic Tanonado is probably going to be in Rockford. Joey Anderson probably going to be in Rockford. So it’s So there is I think what we’re what we’re talking about is more of the whole of the preseason and this is the first taste of six games of it. Sure. Yeah. I didn’t want I did not want the full NHL squad out there tonight. But I but I I think what we’re trying to get ahead of is like let’s not let this game look like carry over to game five when you’re playing 80% of an NHL roster because if you do get to that point then you then you really start to worry about where things are going and what the regular season might look like. Uh we got a super chat from Labowski we want to make sure we get to. Thank you for that my friend 10 bucks says for the young defenseman this year we have to realize that the Hawks will play five that are 23 and younger. Imagine if Keith and Sebrook only played with all 22-year-old kids instead of Alone and Space check. Yeah, I mean that’s that’s true. Like and I I think we’re saying that like I the rust the stuff we saw from young defenseman. This is stuff as we’ve talked all summer looking ahead to this to the season. We said look we’re all excited for these kids to play but there’s going to be massive lows. There’s going to be massive highs but you got to kind of ride that roller coaster and not be emotional after every single loss or every single bad Lev read. Leaves is going to be that kind of a player. He is a risk taker. He plays with uh with his pants on fire a little bit. Sometimes acts before he thinks. The job here of Jeff Blashel and his staff is to minimize those. You don’t want to coach the aggression out of him, but you got to teach him the context of when it’s the right time to do it and which is the correct way to turn, which we did not see today. But that again, that’s part of this process. Part of this process is going to be learning from mistakes. So, I’m with you, Mario. Like, I don’t I think they have a pretty good idea already of the NHL roster. Yeah, like we talked about, there’s only like a collective five spots that you really say are up for grabs. Um, so yeah, I think most of the roster is is pretty much you have a good idea of it. And pushing a vet out of a out of a spot that they feel like pretty secure to start the preseason and to start training camp would require a young player to be shot out of a cannon and just dominate and haven’t seen that in camp. Yeah, you can see it tonight. You haven’t seen a guy do that yet. I would say the only guy close to that is Oliver Moore yet, who might actually be part of the part of the plans. Anyway, I mean, speaking of shot out of a cannon. Yeah, more. Yeah. All right, we’re going to hit the break zone one more time. Hit that like button. A lot of people watching. We really appreciate you being with us here uh for our first po postgame show of the preseason. We’re going to be for every game all year. The plan is during the regular season, we’ll have pregames for road games, full postgames for all 82. So, we’re here for you. So, thanks for being here with us. The first show. Hit that like button. Back in 2 minutes on CHDO Blackbox. We got to be real for a second here. The world’s gone soft. Soft drinks have recently over the last 15 years or so earned the name soft drinks. Yes. with your sparkling waters and your kombuchas and your spritzers and your No, I miss old school cola. But not anymore because RC is still here. RC’s been here since 1905. 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But what I want to see from from Colton Doc is balls to the wall, physical, crashing the net, like bowling ball on ice. I think that’s how he’s going to be the most effective. I don’t need to see him enter the zone with the puck, look around, dump it calmly into the corner. Like, no, man. Dish the puck, go to the net, get in somebody’s way, bump them off the puck. Like, those are the sort of things you want to see from Colton Doc. And I didn’t see enough of it. He was he was in front of the net a bit. Uh but I want to see a lot more of that from him. In fairness, they did not have the puck a lot. So the opportunities were not totally there. Yeah. I that I think is one of the things when we’re trying to evaluate the forwards of this game is that beyond the first period, which was which looked good. That was a good first period. um they did not have the puck nearly enough to get a good good sense of where a lot of the guys offensively were. Um now you could you could also say like well that’s also part of the problem on you want your forwards to also help out defensively and retrieve pucks. Um shouldn’t all be on the defenseman. But yeah, I mean I I I think from what we saw offensively from Doc’s game um there were there were flashes. Jeff Blashel said today before the game um about Colton Doc and said that you really get a sense of where he’s at as a player more in games than you really can from him in practice. I think for the first game, I’m not going to say he went out there and and and ran away with the opportunity, but I I don’t think it was a bad game from him. No, I wouldn’t say bad. And I I think kind of I mean kind of a little bit similar to Tyler Bertusi, Colton Doc I feel like can be more effective when you have a team that can possess the puck a little bit more because then he gets a little bit more freedom to play off of it and offensively be around the net, cause a little bit more of of of havoc and and and still be effect like this is a this is a guy that was a high a high scorer and junior. So he’s got that ability. He’s had pretty good point paces when he’s been in Rockford. Like he’s a guy that can produce points. Um it’s not going to be his bread and butter in the NHL, but it’s something he can do as a secondary skill. But there were a few times where he was getting into uh scrums and there was a moment in the game where he was on top of Sebastian Kosa, which was good to see. That’s what that’s what you want Colton Doc to do. You want to be in you want him to be in there in the high danger area in and around the net and getting under the skin of opponents and and that’s going to be kind of that edge that puts him over the top. So I think it’s something they they need. Yeah. In small bursts he was noticeable but again like outside of like Bard as far as the forwards group goes there really wasn’t a lot of sustained consistent like oh yeah that guy had a good game, that guy had a good game. It was a lot of like bursts of what you could see and then a lot of like well they’re just hemmed in their own zone. Well that leads us to another guy who I think deserves some attention. It’s Lucas Reichel and um a guy who was in a prove it year. I mean Kyle Davidson flat out said it um he needs to show something this year and I think he had a pretty decent first period saw him crash the net. Bard set him up for a really nice scoring chance and close that he wasn’t able to convert. Uh, another time Bard was behind the net and found uh, Riel kind of like just inside the right point and it it just hopped over his stick. Um, but at least you have those moments in the game where you’re like, okay, Riel just had an opportunity to score. He didn’t score. Last year, Lucas Reichel would play 12, 13, 14 minutes and you’d forget he was on the ice. Getting to play in the top six today had a couple scoring chances and I think more good than bad from Riel. Again, as the game went on, it was harder to find these offensive moments from the guys cuz they just never had the dang puck. I know you want to make a point about the defense. So, let’s do that and then we’re going to hear from Jeff Flash here. So, going back to Labowski’s super chat where he was talking about the the ages of the defenseman. Um, Alex Vlic is 24. He’s the second oldest defenseman that’s going to be in the NHL this year unless they sign Matt Chris. Um, Conor Murphy uh is 32. He’s the old He’s the elder statesman. He’s the longest tenured Blackhawk. And I think is he now the longest tenured Chicago athlete currently playing in Chicago? I think he is because yeah, I think that’s true. Someone someone either retired or was traded that was like ahead of him. I don’t know. But Conor Murphy’s been in Chicago for a long time. Um this will be his ninth year. His ninth season. Yeah. Um, so he’s, you know, NHL veteran established. He has the most games played of any active Blackhawks defenseman, uh, at 745. Matt Grizzlick is not technically on the team under contract, so I’m not going to count him, but he has over 500 games played. The next most experienced Blackhawk is Alex Velic with his whopping 179 NHL games. Ian Hap is the longest tenur Chicago athlete I believe he yeah he started in 2017 so technically before Murphy same year spring of 17 spring of 17 compared to fall of 17 for Murphy Conor Murphy yeah um so yeah Alex Vic is the second most experienced defenseman that’s going to play regular NHL time at 179 games uh Nolan Allen Lou Krevier Ethan Delmastro Wyatt Kaiser Kevin Kchinsky Ardum Levinov of Sam Renzel make up the rest of your defensive group. None of them have touched 100 games yet played. No. And I I I go back to Chris Pronger’s point that he made that like you really can’t make a judgment call on a defenseman until about 300 games. Only one guy has 300 games or more on this on this defensive group. So, there’s going to be a lot of growing necessary and a lot of lesson learning to be necessary. So, you know, tonight is a night where you say, hopefully this is the low bar of the preseason and you build off of it and you take steps as you get through games 2, three, four, five, six. Um, and we start to see a little bit more consistency and a little bit, you know, less thinking, a little bit more instinctual, and a little bit more um I’m going to use this term early, but I’m I want to set a tone. The defenseman, I think, had a low GAF meter tonight because there were passes that did not have the zip that you wanted to see. And there were a lot of times where, and it could be overthinking the system, overthinking positioning. There were a lot of times where it was like just the communication was bad. Yeah. The communication was off. Like guys were trying to, you know, do a little dump pass behind the net off the boards and a defenseman was like, “Wait, why’d you pass it to me?” Like, so I I feel like just getting time together and getting more comfortable with the system, getting more time to just kind of think less, instinct more. It’ll it’ll it’ll happen for these guys. I hope so. I don’t know if I want to say it was it was a GAF matter. Um, as much as I think what you said is lack of communication, uh, lack of predictability from your teammates. I just want to I just want to see more urgency in those situations. Yeah, I everything was kind of like I think just as a whole the game felt tentative. The whole approach from the Hawks felt tentative like don’t make a mistake and whenever you play that way you are going to make mistakes. It it it is inevitable cuz you’re you’re going to get tripled up in shots. Yeah. And you’re just looking around for what am I supposed to do? Trust your damn instincts. You’re in the NHL for a reason. Sure. You might make a bad decision here and there, right? Oh, that was costly. I shouldn’t have, you know, I should have just dumped that one in instead of carried or whatever it might be. Fine. But just like thinking and thinking, we This is what we saw from Kirby Doc his entire time in Chicago. You could see him thinking on the ice and by the time he made the decision, the defender was already on him taking the puck the other way. Like that just you can’t survive that way. Crisp move the puck quick up the ice. If in doubt, dump it in, live to fight another day. But this like skating and then slowing down and like looking around. No, everything’s got to be. And this is what we said about Blash’s practices from day one is how quick and urgent and fast-paced everything was and it was not there in the first preseason game. So again, it’s the first preseason game. Speaking of Jeff Blas, why don’t we hear from uh the Blackhawks new head coach? He uh talked to the media after the game. This courtesy of the Chicago Blackhawks. Overall thoughts on the game? Um you know, obviously they played better than us. I just thought uh you know a lot of stuff we’ve threw a lot of stuff at our guys here this week. Um combination of a lot of hard work so I didn’t think we quite had our legs but also just you know everything’s kind of new systems are new. Um, and we we played like we were thinking and when you think a lot, you kind of play slow and so they beat us to, you know, pretty pretty much every loose puck, every uh out chance to outnumber us, they they kind of won that. And again, for me, and then when you do that, you just end up defending, defending, defending, and then you change. And so, I just thought in the end, uh, you know, it it didn’t surprise me. Um I I I knew our I knew we were going to be uh our legs were going to be tired and uh um you know that we you know certainly our systems aren’t natural yet but um I’m okay with that. That’s that’s why we’re putting the work in. Arvid made 40 saves tonight. Thoughts on uh you know his first action under you? Not just 40 saves but but some really really good saves. I thought he played excellent you know and certainly the game could have got definitely one-sided if it wasn’t for that. So um great job for him. Uh you know he’s looked solid in camp. All our goalies have looked really good in camp, so that’s a real positive. You know, Connor got the power play goal. Maybe just your thoughts on the power play tonight. Um, well, you know, obviously it was it was a good play get it over to him and and you know, he can shoot it for sure. But I thought I thought Connor played well. I thought Connor deserved uh you in the first period and then and then on that power play and then we just didn’t have the puck enough for him to showcase his stuff, but he looks uh he looks like he’s in a good spot. I thought he did have legs early, so uh you know, credit to him and the work that he put in this summer. And then thoughts on Wyatt’s goal jumping up in the rush and Aiden finding him uh coming in as the trailer. Yeah, no, it was good. Uh, you know, I think that was probably one of the few times in the game where we won a battle and then I thought Arty did a good job skating the puck up the ice. We had Mandit. Uh, great talk by Wyatt. He’s one of the guys that talks a lot out there. So, and then we then we had a screen. So, all that that’ll be a clip we’ll show is a is a real positive. Nothing delights me more than the coach saying what I just said before we went to the video of the coach. Essentially everything we said. I mean, I think Jeff was was listening to the show. He’s a big fan of of our of our breakdown game. Yeah. But Sean can attest to that. We had we did not preview Jeff Flashole before we played the audio. No. And Jay screamed like a giddy little girl. And I mean truly I think it’s in the first 5 seconds. We just play it again. Well, you know what though? And he’s Oh, yeah. you know, obviously they played better than us. I just thought, uh, you know, a lot of stuff. We’ve threw a lot of stuff at our guys here this week. Um, combination of a lot of hard work, so I didn’t think we quite had our legs, but also just, you know, everything’s kind of new. Systems are new. Um, and we we played like we were thinking, and when you think a lot, you kind of play slow. And so, there you have it. Played like they were thinking. There you have it. Yeah. Uh, nice little dig there, though. When asked about the Kaiser goal, he goes, “That’s one of the few battles he won tonight.” Yeah. Well, I mean, when you get outshot 43 to7 and you get hemmed in your zone for a minute and a half at a time, you’re losing battles. So, it’s I mean, it’s it’s one thing. And and I go back again to that first period. There were at least three chances created um offensively and in in transition from just the Blackhawks being faster. they were just faster than than the Red Wings. It was just getting to the puck first, but then they just lost it. And and as Blashel said, and uh in in his post game, like he knew that they were going to be tired. He knew that they were going to be slow and and sure that’s that’s one thing that you can chalk it up to and and how they’ve practiced intensely. They’ve gotten a lot of conditioning work done. They did a scrimmage yesterday. They skated this morning in Chicago, then took the 45minute flight to Detroit and then play the game. Like, it’s not a normal schedule, right? I don’t But I don’t love that either. Well, they’re not going to go to Detroit this morning and then skate and then play at six. Like, I don’t think that that would have been the way to whatever. It’s your legs like a flight. Yeah. Even if it is only 45 minutes, right? Um but I yeah I think like the the the the battling that they were doing in the first period again it’s that is what I think you can look to and say like that is the hope that that first period can be more of the norm than the final 40 minutes. Yeah. Sean. Well I just wanted to add as experienced flyers you’d hope they’d know the trick of taking your shoes off and making knuckles with your feet. We’ll have to ask them. That’s the thing from Die Hard. Yeah, we’ll ask him. You guys were alive for that movie and I’m getting you guys with references. I know. I know what the reference is. I’m just saying we got to ask Mario seated in full one time. Boo. Sorry. Uh Labowski 5 also noticed that Blashel said Wyatt’s one of the few guys that talks out there. That’s that’s going to be another thing especially with Lefchov with the language barrier. That is a real thing and he’s a quiet guy. These guys have to talk to each other. They have to they’ve got to be vocal on the ice. They’ve got to be I mean just think I hate to keep going back to the dynasty but it’s what we all reference. You could hear that high pitch Brent Cbrook the whole game. The whole game you could hear him. You could hear him coaching on the ice the entire time. Communication has to be there now just from being in practice. Blastic is vocal. Murphy is vocal. Kaiser is vocal. So now we got to find out what the others are going to be and see how they are. But that that’s a huge part of it is is telling a guy, ring it around the boards, ring it hard, on your left, on your right, high, low, like all the things you have to communicate because they can only see what’s right in front of them. They don’t know what’s behind them. They there’s got to be communication. So these are all coachable things. These are all things that uh you know that you that you’ll learn that these young players will have to develop over their careers and it’s going to be part of the growing pains of of this season. There’s going to be games like this even with the full NHL roster simply because the defense is so inexperienced. And it’s a it’s a comfortability thing too with the being vocal because I think there is a lot of when you’re a younger player, when you’re a less NHL experienced player, you want to feel like you’re not overstepping your bounds. dude want to feel like you’re not um you know, you’re not telling a guy who’s played 700 games like Conor Murphy, hey idiot, I’m over here. Like you don’t want it to come off that way when you’re when you’re a young guy. But I think it’s going to be more beneficial to these guys to kind of get over that because as we just went through the games played thing, the there’s one veteran on this team, right? Even though Alex Vic seems like he’s been here for five years, um he’s still not a quote unquote veteran. He’s also not a very loud, he’s just kind of a soft spoken guy, too, just generally. I mean, if Alex Vic is yelling on the ice, he has he has that he has that deep voice. So, like when he can That was my Alex Vas, by the way. Yeah, I think that was spot on. Um I thought he was actually in here for a second. Just I was taller. Um, but I mean if he’s boisterous and like that would be a voice that you wouldn’t you wouldn’t uh miss on the ice. But yeah, I think it’s just come comes down to being comfortable and and the other thing too with defenseman being vocal, you want to if you’re going to be vocal, you want to be right in what you’re saying. So, I think a lot of like getting like the the system and getting down the positioning and getting down like what is expected in different scenarios when it comes to being vocal and talking about like, hey, I’m going here, you’re going there kind of thing, you want to be right in that because if you’re super vocal and you’re wrong, Yeah. you’re going to put yourself in some bad position. Yeah. Or you’re going to cause confusion. Yeah. Right. All right. We’re going to do a new segment this year. We’re going to give out game pucks and we’re each going to choose one every game and then you’re going to vote on who actually gets awarded the CHGO Blackhawks game puck every game. So, the poll is now live on our YouTube page. We’ll uh reveal the winner at the end of the show. Mario, who gets your game puck tonight? My game puck is going to the guy that kept this game way closer than it should have been. Arvid Solder Bloom. 40 saves on 43 shots faced in the first preseason game. He’s clenching his toes in a plane. He sure was. Uh when Jeff Blashel today uh at the morning skate said that the expect that they were like, “No, we’re going to go with with with Sod for the full game.” I kind of I quickly before he looked at me raised my eyebrows. I was like, “Oh, that’s interesting.” cuz I fully expected it to be like no you know maybe two periods for Solder Bloom third period will be Kameza but he gave him the full game and okay cool and he got a full game’s worth of of work and then some. So yeah I’m going with Arvid Solder Bloom if he didn’t play the way he did tonight this game would have been six to2. I’m giving mine to Connor Badard. Yes, the goal was glorious. He did have a turnover late in the game that led to a goal, but he won 70% of his faceoffs. And it’s one game and you don’t want to pull too much away from one game, but he looked faster and he was winning faceoffs. Did two things that everyone agreed Connor Badard had to get better at this summer. Yeah, he put in the work. So, he gets my game puck for preseason game one with the goal, with the improvement of the faceoff dot and overall just being more engaged in the defensive end. Back checking on a few things. Uh again, had a turnover that led to a goal, but uh way more positive from negative from uh from than negative from Conor Bard tonight. So, get your vote in and we’ll reveal the winner. It’s not something we’re going to score whatever during the year, but uh maybe once the season gets rolling, we’ll have a postgame graphic, put it out. winner of the puck, those sort of things. We’ve seen our sales staff to sell it. It’s open for your sponsorship. That’s right. Putting the pressure on the sales staff, potential sponsors right now. Could be you. Exactly. Um, who are you looking forward to uh seeing that didn’t play tonight? Uh, looking at the non-game group roster. Yeah. Uh, next game’s not until uh Saturday, so we got some time to figure that out. Oh, chat’s also just been wondering who’s going to be the goalie. You guys brought up Kamezo. We don’t know yet. Is Kamezo going to be the goalie? We don’t know yet. Knight to make his debut. Were the were the goalies tonight dressed? Maybe they give Kzo the actual start next game. We’ll see. Um but yeah, Barnoi and uh Knight were in the non-game group today, so maybe they’re set up to play the next game. I don’t I mean, you could give it to Spencer Knight. Sure. Gave it a Solder Bloom the first start. Might as well give it to Spencer Knight. give you give you yourself the best let him feel some pucks best chance to win. Yeah. Um non-game group today was uh Murphy, Donado, Dickinson, Felino, Burkovski, uh Knight and Branoi, uh Allen, Harding, Grizzlick, Holmes, Mast, Bertusi, Kates, Bame, Mizak, Vassic, Lardis, Weekes, Pat, Lewinsky, Hayes, Kuzman, Mavev. Uh Lardis is who I’m most excited to see. Um, 71 goals is nothing to sneeze at. And, uh, we talked about the other show where I feel like I feel like he should start in Rockford. I feel like he will start in Rockford, but I feel like he is farther along than I expected him to be at this point in camp. I thought he was going to kind of look like Reus Lucas Reichel 2.0. Um, and I think that he has kind of quickly figured out, at least based on practice and scrimmage, the things he can get away with and the things he can’t. He’s gonna figure out more of it. I think for sure. I He’s a guy that likes to have a little bit of that flash in his game. I think, you know, some of the drop passes and stuff like that. when we when we talk about like get the junior out of a player, it’s it’s stuff like that. Like and and stuff we saw tonight too from a lot of guys like you’re not going to s passes through four defenders from one boards side of the boards to the other. Like it’s someone tried that. I think it might have been more Yeah, it’s it’s stuff like that. Like because people have said like, “What do you mean by get the G?” It’s it’s things like that. things that you can get away with when it’s a bunch of 17-year-olds playing on the ice and some of them are vastly superior in talent than the others. But when you get to the NHL, it’s all of those guys who were vastly superior at 17 years old that are now playing as full grown men. So the game and and what you can get away with uh changes. Uh super chat here from I hope I say this right. Ka hockey training $2 says, “Great pod. Keep up the great work. Miss Greg. Well, Greg will be here for every home game postgame show. And you know, he’s always in here filling in and stuff like that. We’re We miss Greg, too. We are working our hardest to get Greg on here as often as we can. But if you’d like to support Greg, you can read his stuff at Blackhawk Up. Yeah. Yeah. It’s been fun having uh it’s been it’s been so much fun just being back into now practices and games and just getting back into what this job really can be. And it’s it’s great to see everybody at the rink. Um to be able to hang out with Greg as much as possible. Like yeah, love that. The White Socks play actual games and we usually get about like 17 live viewers. You guys have 365 for a preseason game. That’s great. Boy, am I jealous. That’s great. Yeah. Well, get get Conor Bard. That’s all you got to do. People Montgomery. It’s the same thing. He hit a moonshot today. I saw that. He did. And still, uh, the White Sox postgame show is getting cancelled for preseason hockey, but that’s not a negative. It’s just kind of talking more about how many great people are in here. Hey, play the hits. Come on. Come on. Play the Montgomery went deep. That’s the Universal Mitch Rosen voice. Come on. Get just as everyone who works at SNL has a uh Lauren Michaels impression. Drawn out Lauren. Everyone who works at the score has a Mitch impression. It’s all the same one. Come on. Overcommunicate. Let’s go. It’s just yours or T. Who started doing that? The high pitch one. I think we all just started doing it. I think it just kind of like became its own thing and we we just do it now. So yes, everyone who ever worked at the score has a Mitch Rosen. I’m sure it fascinates everyone in the audience. That’s why we that’s why we have these big audiences, Sean, for the Mitch Rosen uh for the Mitch Rosen impression. I only had one phone call with him and he didn’t sound like that. So was I’m glad I’m glad I brought that conversation to a screeching halt. What’d you interview for? Uh probably your job. Nice. a few few years ago. Didn’t get it. Um but uh yeah. Anyways, yeah. All right. I gotta say, can I just say I’m excited to watch Nolan Allen? Yeah. Uh when he gets into preseason action based off of the fact that like we said earlier, I don’t think any of the defenseman really looked great tonight. So, he’s he’s probably looking at it like, “Oo, I might be able to have a good game and a maybe leaprog somebody.” Yeah. Chomping at the bit to get in there, man. This is his chance. I I saw a lot of people in the chat like, “Why didn’t so and so play?” Well, there’s 52 guys on the roster right now and there’s six play everyone. It’s okay. Six games is way too many. We’ll get in there. Well, it’ll be four next year. But 84 regular season games. Hey, that’s great. We should get a two We should get a two game raise. We should. We’ll put in our next contracts. Yeah, if you sponsor all our segments. Hey, that’s a great way to get Greg back. Yeah, sponsor. If you really miss Greg, let’s let’s Yeah. Put your money where your mouth is, jerks. Come on. Looking at you, hockey barn. There, I said it out loud. Out loud. It’s out there in the open. And they’re in the chat. Yes, they are. That’s why I said it. Um, all right, Sean. Do we have a winner in the game puck uh sweep stakes? No, that’s not Oh, I thought that was going to be a round of applause. Uh, that was a round of applause. That’s a round of applause. Yeah, but I thought it was going to be more of like uh I don’t know. Anyway, it’s a live studio audience is only so big. Sean, this is what I need on here. Harvit Soder Bloom 79% on 84 votes. That makes sense. I’m not going to do that math, but it’s a majority. Large majority. That’s a definitive win by Arvid Soder Bloom. And he deserves it. Truthfully, he earned it. Uh, congrats for getting the first game puck. Now, what we need to do is order your puck 82 CHGO pucks and deliver them to the players every practice. Yeah. And they’ll just look at us like, “What is this?” They’ll throw it back on the ice up. Exactly. Fire it at a reporter at some point. Yeah. All right. Tomorrow we are off. No show Wednesday. We’re back Thursday. Also off. Hawks also off tomorrow. So you won’t be missing anything. Thursday show after practice. Friday is another off day so we can work Saturday and Sunday postgame shows. So we’ll talk to you Thursday at 2. Hit that like button on your way out. Tell a friend. We’ll see you then. Thursday 2 o’clock right here on the CHGO Blackhawks podcast. [Music] [Applause] We all like Yeah.

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