Frank Nazar BRIGHT SPOT in Chicago Blackhawks Loss to Panthers | CHGO Blackhawks POSTGAME Podcast

Frank Nazar BRIGHT SPOT in Chicago Blackhawks Loss to Panthers | CHGO Blackhawks POSTGAME Podcast

The Blackhawks lose 32 in the season opener. They get goals from Frank Nazar and Tavo Terrain. We’ll break down the loss next on CHDL Blackhawks. Yeah. Heat. Welcome into the CHGO Blackhawks postgame show presented by Bet 365. Download the bet365 app and use the code cho365 when you sign up. Whatever the moment, it’s never ordinary at bet 365. Thanks for being with us. I’m Jay Zawaski. That’s Mario Tbasi. Sarah Victor’s running the show for us tonight as the Hawks lose 3-2 to the Florida Panthers in the uh first game of the NHL season. The Hawks get goals from Nazar and Terrain, but come up a little short. But you know what, Mario? After 60 minutes, I walk away from this game feeling satisfied and somewhat encouraged, especially based on the way the first 20 went. This game could have been 8 to1. Yeah, easily. But in the second intermission, they get it together and for the next 40 play pretty even with the Florida Panthers and it came down to a weird bounce, a deflection out of midair. Jer Boquist gets the game winner and the Hawks were right there at the end. Had a bunch of chances to score, hit some posts. They were right there with the defending champs. You remember a game last season when they played the Panthers and they scored seven seconds into the game on the landed sler goal? Remember remember how the rest of that game went? Bad. They lost seven to one. Yes. And that’s how this game started to feel in that second period or that first period where Frank Nazar gets the the opening goal. We’re all jacked up over it and I think the Hawks were pretty hyped over it too and kind of got away from them in that moment. that that second half of the first period, the Panthers just poured it on. 17-3 shots on goal in the first period for the Panthers. 35-10 in shot attempts. Yeah, I don’t I haven’t looked at it. That’s accurate. Yeah, I haven’t looked at it yet. I don’t know if the Blackhawks ended with 35 shot attempts uh in the game. Yeah, they they did, but I mean it was just 42 for the record. Yeah, I have uh 52 here from for uh all strengths, but Oh, all right. I was on but I mean the way that the second period I think everyone started to settle into the game. They get they they win the second period. They tie the game. They they uh out chance them in that second period and you feel pretty good about where they’re going into the third and and then yeah I mean they they were out outplayed for the to for the total of the 60 minutes. uh Frank Nazar, Tav Terravine, and Tyler Batuzi. They were working really well all night. Connor Bdard was just inches away from a from a few Yeah. impactful plays. Uh hit the crossbar on first period goal uh or first period goal post. Um almost connected with Colton Doc in the second period. Uh and and Doc the puck just went right off the the blade. Seth Jones had a chance had a chance to embarrass Seth Jones. Um, so he was right there all night. And then Spencer Knight, man, like the the biggest reason this game wasn’t a replica of that seven to one Dring last season was because Spencer Knight played the way that he did. Yeah, he is uh was not one of the stars of the game somehow. Uh the three stars were AJ Greer, uh Mackie Samuskevich, and Jper Bokeis. By the way, as we were getting ready for the show, they were interviewing uh AJ Greer on ESPN, and he was talking about how fast and good the Hawks are in transition. and he’s like, “You have to watch your back. They’re on top of you right away.” Um, that’s a guy who is playing angrily at the Blackhawks all night. But hey, like, you know, that’s that’s showing the Hawks some respect and that’s the sort of team they want to be. Look, they’re not going to win a lot of games. They’re still projected to be most people have picked them to finish dead last in the league. I don’t think they’re going to be quite that bad, but they’re going to be bottom five probably for sure. Um, but they’re competing and that’s what you want to see. You want to see them compete. You don’t want to see him fold the tents. I I do think you’re right and I had the same sort of feeling after the Nazar goal where they almost got like, “Oh my god, we’re winning.” And they got really excited and they were they were overkating the puck and you could see the adrenaline flowing through those young players and it just had to get like the intermission came too late really, but like they needed the intermission when it happened to just like, “Okay, everyone sit down. Everybody take a deep breath and let’s get back to what got us the one- nothing lead because up to that moment it was a pretty even game back and forth. I know both teams were feeling each other out but it’s crazy the Panthers didn’t really take over that period until Nazar until Yeah. until that one minute goes by and then they they tie the game and that’s really when it kind of like you know they they put their foot down uh on the gas. on the broadcast they talk about they talked about after the first period which is when Nick Felino dropped the gloves with with with Greer uh won the fight on my card. Um agree. They said on the broadcast that Felino uh kind of had that kind that that same kind of messaging during the intermission to the team of just like we know we’re young but we we just need to kind of settle down. Like it’s it’s the game is is there’s a lot of emotion in it. There’s a lot of anticipation getting to this this night and you’re starting the season in a juiced up building in in Florida. It’s the banner night. Uh it’s the def, you know, defending cup champs. Like there’s a lot of energy. It’s a contender. Um I’m going to send uh a strongly worded letter to Gary Bman uh petitioning that the Blackhawks get to start the season next year uh at home and they get to play the Seattle Kraken. I want a nice calm opening game for this Blackhawks group cuz it’s been it’s been uh cup cup winning night or banner night for the Avalanche. It’s been, you know, Bard’s uh debut in the NHL was on the road against Cindy Crosby. Then they go on the road to open it against Utah in a playoff in a playoff atmosphere. And now this year they’re starting the season another banner. Like, can we just get a very nonchalant? Yes. I don’t want to be on the ESPN triple heading open. I just put me on ESPN Plus tomorrow night. Yeah, put me on the O playing the Blues or something. Like, I want something just real simple for this Hawks group next season on opening night. I don’t want I don’t want a pomp and circumstance opening night. Um, but that’s besides the point. I mean, hey, maybe next season’s team, they get the pomp and circumstance opening night because by the time we get to game 82, which it should be hopefully, it’s a completely different, more mature team by the end of the season than we saw tonight. And and I think tonight’s game, even with the loss, even with getting getting, you know, kind of worked over uh at times, there’s a lot of encouraging play and and and if this is a baseline for this team to start with, I feel I feel optimistic. Well, it’s one hell of a way to start, too. It’s like, okay, vibes are high. Everyone’s feeling good. I saw Mark I think Mark Lazarus wrote about the vibes before the game today. We’ve been talking about how it just feels different in the room. Practices have a different level of energy and jump and just it just feels better and you are thrown to the Wolves. You are thrown to the best team in hockey. Yeah, they’re down their two best players. That’s fine. But all the things you mentioned, right, banner night, all the everything going on. And I think after a rough 10 minutes, a really rough 10 minutes of the first period, they were able to find it, settle it down, and regroup. And I really want to give I think Spencer Knight deserves a lot of credit for holding down the fort while things were going insane, keeping them in the game. And I do think too that he himself has a bit of a calming presence on his own. He’s very kind of uh soft-spoken, very thoughtful. Um when you he is asked a question, he thinks about it. He is a leader on this team and he’s one of the oldest guys on the team, which is crazy. Um and just I think just having him back there. How many times have we heard players say either to us or elsewhere like when we have a goalie back there that we know we can trust, it helps us play loose, it helps us play more free, having him back there for the better part of 82 games is going to make this team play better. Yeah. I don’t think you can take much of what you saw in this one and make any grand conclusions about any player. I see a whole bunch of comments in the chat like this guy sucks, that guy sucks, this team sucks, everyone sucks. It’s like let’s let’s pump the grape breaks. It’s one of it’s one of 82 against one of the best teams in hockey. Mhm. A lot of these guys playing together or on the line for the first time together. The line that played together last year looked pretty damn good. Yeah. Yeah. That that second line was was was clicking really well. Um, I I think everyone is is everyone if they weren’t already uh if they didn’t already have Frank Naser on their radar around the hockey world, not just Blackhawks fans, because if you’re a Blackhawks fan, you don’t know about Frank Nazar. Come on, where you been? I don’t think you’re a Blackhawks fan. But, uh, the the the hockey world, if the first time they really paid attention to Frank Nazar was when he got his contract and they were like, “Oo, I don’t know about that contract.” Reminds me of Rick Dietro. Um, tonight’s a night where a lot of those minds probably got turned a little bit of, oh, this kid’s probably going to be worth it. Like, he had he had a solid effort tonight. Um, and I think playing playing him stylistically with Bertusi and Terravan like really works and I I wouldn’t be shocked if that trio doesn’t really get shifted around much this season. Yeah. Um, we are going to get into some of the individual performances. A lot of people want to talk about Ardum Levchenov. His first period was awful. There’s there is no denying it. Uh, turnovers, uh, mishandles, two penalties, could have had three. That one in the second period where he kind of got the stick in the nuts of uh, who that was Greer, too, wasn’t it? Uh, I think so. I think it was Greer. Yeah, there he it was incidental, but it was there. But I think that Levinov like the rest of the team really settled down and figure things out as the game went on. And when when you saw late when they were put trying to put the pressure on the Panthers and get that tying goal, a lot of that went through Levino. And anyone reaching a conclusion on Ardum Levino today is setting themselves up to look like an idiot in short order. I hope so. This is the number two overall pick a year ago. He is 19 years old. He barely knows English. He’s in his 700th league in four years, right? Like there is a lot on his plate right now, let alone ma, you know, managing top four minutes on one of the youngest teams in hockey against the defending Stanley Cup champions. Let’s pump the brakes before making any major declarations on Ardum Levchenov. There was a lot of bad in that first period. the second 40 as he and the rest of the team calm down. He looked a lot better, looked a lot calmer, he’s going to have to manage the puck better. Absolutely. But two of the dumbest plays I saw all day happened from two of the oldest Blackhawks. I saw a bad pinch from Matt Grizzlick. I saw a bad pinch from Nick Felino. Yeah. So, like as Blashel said, it’s going to take all of these guys, let alone the young and experienced guys, time to get used to the system and especially the special teams. It’s going to take time to get used to those. So, let’s not let let’s not there’s no reason to declare anything besides how did they look tonight. It was a bad night for Lefchov over overall, but you still got the glimpses of what he can do. And let’s not forget he played 18 games last year. Yeah. and looked pretty damn good for the better part of those 18. So, I think it’s it’s a little nuts to say he’s bad or he’s a bust or anything like that. Yeah. Him and Renzel tonight both had moments where you were like, “Oo, okay. Can’t be in the conversation for rookie of the year without looking like a rookie sometimes.” And and I I think there’s as we’ve said from the start of of the off season all the way till now like growing pains are going to be a part of this team’s uh it’s just going to be regular part of this team because of the guys that they’re playing. Um Ethan Delmro, you know, he’s been around for for a little bit now. He’s still going through it. Um Renzel and Levinov, they’re still going through it. But I I I think to come away from this first game of the year against the Panthers with do with Lechnov and Renzel and say, you know what, there were still moments of good. There’s still a lot to work on. Um that’s again I I feel like that’s kind of like best case scenario for those two to not just to not come away from this looking like, oh my god, you need to go to Rockford tomorrow. Well, I mean, look, we we all wanted this team to go young. Mhm. We were all wanting Oliver Moore and Lucas Reichel and Ryan Green in this lineup instead of, you know, Felino and uh Laferdy and whatever. If you want that, you’re going to have to you’re going to have games like this and moments like that. It’s something we’re going to have live through all season. The reason you put them in these situations is you hope that the exposure to it at the highest level gets them out of it sooner than have then maybe you play Leov half the year in Rockford then he comes up and then has to learn 40 games into the season. Just get it out of the way and trust that he can handle it cuz 18 games last year he look pretty solid. So all right we got to hit the break zone. Before we do we have two nominees for our game pucks today. We’ll reveal the winner at the end of the show. my nominee, Frank Nazar, kicking off the NHL season with the first goal of the year, but just looked very Frank Nazari, right? Going to the middle of the ice, making things happen with the speed, playing a solid two-way game. Uh, so yeah, Frank Nazar is my nominee for game pucks. He had 2014 of ice time, a goal and assist plus one. He had one shot on goal uh and two more shot attempts uh in this one. So that’s my nominee. Mario, my nominee is uh the man that they cheered for during the national anthem. Uh Spencer Knight, 34 saves on 35 shots faced. Uh like we’ve said, this guy, without him, it would have been 7 to1, 8 to one. Like it would have been real bad uh without the performance that he had. Um, you heard on the broadcast, uh, Kevin Weekes was was, uh, praising, you know, his positioning, having his hands out front. There were a number of times where, you know, breakaway chances or two-on-one chances came in tight on Spencer Knight and just having his blocker and his glove out in front in the position that they were, rather than kind of like keeping him back and trying to react to the shot, he just kind of met it and made the made made the save or, you know, caught the puck. His positioning was sound. Um, I think if you can get performances like this, hopefully not on a nightly basis, but be able to rely on him and he can make some saves that you don’t expect from time to time, that’s going to keep the Hawks in a lot of games. All right, get your votes in. We’ll reveal the winner at the end of the show. Just vote on YouTube there. By the way, over 500 people watching. Thank you very much. If you’re new here, welcome. We do five shows a week, post games, studio shows. Tomorrow we’ll be in here at 2:30 doing a studio show. 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Heading into Thursday’s game against Boston. Mhm. Alex Vassac will very likely be back. Yeah. And that’s going to make a big difference. Ethan Delmro sits. I would think Del Mastro or Grizzlike, but probably Del Mastro. Yeah, I think they’ll probably keep in the veteran at least for right now. Uh but um not have him play top pair with Renzel. If Vlic’s if Vlassic’s healthy and good to go, I’d like to see him paired with with Renzel and getting the majority of the minutes and just go back into that top top defenseman role uh that he should have. But yeah, that I I I think even just making that switch uh in the lineup should make a difference defensively. Um there were a number of times tonight where Delmastro specifically uh was caught up ice on a uh giving up a couple of those oddman rushes for the Panthers. So yeah, I mean I I it seems evident that Jeff Blashel really likes Ethan Delmro as like he said in a pregame he’s a good player like just definitively. Yeah, I think he likes his play style, his his the He said he he said moxy. He said uh swag. He said he’s a foxhole guy. Like I it’s it’s definitely uh clear that he really likes Ethan Delmro. It’s just the play on the ice has got to follow the praise. Yeah. To get up to get the the opportunities. One of the things I’ve noticed tonight from all the Hawks young defenseman, this includes Sam Renzel, is a little bit of indecisiveness. They’ll sort of be standing there with the puck like, um, where do I over here, like there’s that little bit of, we talk about this all the time. You can see the players thinking and that is death on the ice. Now, again, that’s adrenaline. That is the moment. That is and I again I wrote about this for all cho.com today. It’s really easy for Sam Renzel and Artem Lechinov and Oliver Moore and Ryan Green to join the Blackhawks on the back end of a season where there’s no hopes for playoffs. There’s no hopes for success. There’s really no expectations on them at all. So they can just sort of ease in and play kind of fearlessly. Mhm. Game one of 82 in a hostile environment like that, that’s different, right? So this is the first time they’re really playing in games that theoretically matter, right? So that’s going to be an adjustment for them. It’s going to be a different speed, a different processing level. And again, with more time and more development, it’s it’s going to look better and better game by game. It’s not going to be linear where every game is better than the last, but it’ll be up and down, but you hope at the end of the year that that number is way up. You know, that arrow is way up. Um, but I you can I think it was very clear tonight. And you could see and even on that goal, was it the first goal where Renzel was kind of net front and didn’t really know cuz Kaiser went to play the man behind the net and Renzel was right there netfront and didn’t really do anything. He was kind of just stuck in between and you saw him like head on a swivel not sure where to go. Um those sort of things with coaching and with time and experience uh will will solve themselves. That was the that was the second goal. That was a Verhagy goal. Yeah. Yeah, I mean I I I think a I think a lot of it is is um just getting more comfortable with because because as we heard throughout the preseason and training camp, it’s learning this it’s learning the system. Um and and just getting comfortable with it and the repetitions are just going to be better as time goes on. You get more comfortable in it from day one of training camp to the final day of training camp. Yes, the messaging from Jeff Blashel was it’s starting to feel more natural for them to play this way, but it’s still going to take some time. He he talked about with the penalty kill setup how last season it took some time for the Lightning to settle into their penalty kill system. He said it took him a month. Took them till November 1st to to get it down. And then from November 1st to the end of the season, they had the best penalty kill number in the NHL. Now, different personnel obviously with the Lightning compared to this Blackhawks team, but it’s still it it still factors in that it takes some time for these things to settle in, especially when you got young guys coming in from, you know, college or or junior or everything like they’re they’re getting into it or, you know, you’re it’s a change up from last year to this year like Richardson and Sorenson weren’t running this system. It’s it’s it’s a different system. So getting used to that hopefully cuts down on that time where you’re thinking. And then also too, someone said in the in the chat like and and you alluded to it as well, it’s the Panthers. That’s a team that’s going to force you to make decisions faster than pretty much any other team in the NHL. So I think this was a toss you into the deep end type of game. And I even though you lose um you come away feeling like you know what there’s still teachable moments and and I think as these young defenseman and and as this team gels a little bit more the thinking becomes less the natural flow of things more instinctual play within the system starts to grow and then things will feel a little bit more seamless. Yeah, I think so too. Yeah, I know. It’s I hope at least the first the first game of any season is it feels better or worse with the result, right? Yeah. I I always think of an opening day win or loss in baseball. Just feels like so good to win that first one and the first if it’s the first loss, you like I’ve waited six months for this day or whatever it is and now it’s here and they freaking lost. Yeah. And it my day is ruined and it sucks. Uh I’m feeling a little bit of that from our chat today. a lot of disappointment to not win this one. But, uh, look, if if they play I don’t know. I did not hate the third. I know Blash said he didn’t love the third. I want to I want to get into this. I’m going do some math here. This is at all strengths for the second and third periods. Uh, shot attempts for the Blackhawks, 42. Shot attempts for the Panthers, 34. Uh, actual shots on goal for the Blackhawks 20. or I’m sorry, 17 shots on goal for the Panthers, 20 scoring chances for the Blackhawks, 16. Scoring chances for the Blackhawks or for the Panthers, 18. So, as far as metrics go, as far as possession goes, as far as generating some offense, very even. Yeah. In the second and in the second and third periods, the the first period again, shot attempts were 3510 for the Panthers. Shots on goal were 173 for the Panthers. Scoring chances were 20 to4 for the Panthers. And you and you come away scoring chances and you come away with just one just a onegoal loss in in which you’re you know you you’re you’re pulling the goalie, you’re fighting for it and you know that that that effort at the end at six on five I didn’t hate. Um they had a few chances. Would have been nice to get into the offensive zone a little bit sooner than with a minute left. You could see Spencer Knight was like, “Oh, he was getting frustrated. Let’s go get Well, they were they were like east westing it. And then anytime that they try and cross their own blue line, the Panthers were were right there ready for it.” Again, it comes down to you’re playing the defending cup champion, one of the cup favorites, even without Matthew Kachchuck and Alexander Barov. like it’s still a team that this season without those two guys for a big chunk of the year or at all for for Barkoff’s sake is still a team that’s like, “Yeah, they’re going to be in the playoffs. Yeah, they’re probably going to contend for a three.” Like, it wasn’t playing the Predators or something like that and you get walked in the first period. Yeah, that was the case, I’d be way more concerned. Yeah, definitely. Uh, speaking of Spencer Knight, did anyone see the face he gave Andre Burkovski on that twoon-one? I don’t know what he was mad about cuz Burkovsky had to go cover defensively unless Burikovski screened him. Well, or maybe he just wants him to eliminate the shooter completely. Yeah, I he kind of got caught in the middle. when you’re when you’re playing defense as a as an offensive player, I know like trying to turn and face the puck and try and square up is not as natural uh for you as it is for a defenseman, but skating in the same direction with no resistance to the guy coming in with the puck, um that’s not really helping out your goalie all that much. I I think Knight is probably saying like, “Hey man, uh try and attack the puck carrier and oh, and at least make the shot attempt the the impending shot attempt more difficult on them than giving them basically a free lane to see. My instinct would be if I’m in Burkovsky’s spot, I am taking away the pass option. I’m going to the nonpuck carrier. Sure. And just letting Spencer Knight know, take him. I will handle this guy over here. Yeah. I mean, in that in that moment, of course, easy for me to say from the couch eating nachos and not playing a game of 35 mph. I think in that moment though, Burkovski is so much one-on-one with the puck carrier. Yeah. You might as well just try and try and eliminate the shot attempt than than to just be like, “Oh, let me try and reposition myself.” I I think you’re better off just trying to take away the the the shooting lane um and go from there cuz if you’re cuz if you’re going to screen the goalie, you got to stop the puck. 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We are still hoping to get uh some video from Jeff Blashel postgame. Uh if not, we’ll fill you in on what’s being said. But before the break, we were talking about Andre Burikovski and uh not a phenomenal debut by any means for him. Uh no points, finished even on the night, 1540 of ice time, had one shot attempt and one hit. Was also credited with a takeaway. Um I have some decent hopes for him this year. He’s a guy that when healthy and went on a top in a top six role has produced at this league before. Um I was hoping to see a little bit more from him in this one. The only times I noticed him were really when I was looking for him and that play we were just talking about with uh Spencer Knight kind of giving him the stink eye. Yeah. Um on that defensive play. Other than that, he was not really a factor at all. And I again, we’re not declaring anything after one game, but as a guy who’s a veteran who has won two Stanley Cups and has been a big part of those cup teams, I was hoping to see a little bit more from him here. Jeff Blashel has talked about wanting to not change things up too fast, not change things up react being reactionary. Um, yeah, he waited 40 minutes. Third period’s the lines ch changed up. Um Ryan Donado was moved down to the third line. I m up to the first line. So things things got changed up. Burkovsky had even strength uh tonight. 21 shot attempts against uh to 94. So that’s a 30% uh Corsy4 percentage. Not good. Nope. uh actual shots on goal at five on five with him on the ice. Uh 13 against one four. Now it’s not much better for Connor Bernard 15 against and two four and not much better for Ryan Donado 10 against 34. Yeah. Uh so that first line um as good as the second line was that’s how as bad the first line was. Um you know Bard was was creating a lot of a lot of chances. Um but I think it was a lot of more individual things happening. Barovski and Donado weren’t weren’t doing him much uh much they they weren’t doing him much help. I think I’m not saying that completely change everything, but I think for a first go of it, not not great. And I think out of Donado and Burkovski, like you want those guys to be able to be they’re veterans. They’ve been around the block. They’ve they’ve been around uh enough to be ready to go for for a game one, be ready to go for a team like the Panthers. Bakovski is a two-time Cup champion. Like he’s he’s been in those battles. Um, so you want to you want to see them be a little bit better. Um, you want to see the execution be better. I know Jeff Blashel uh Ben Pope had a tweet had a tweet about um what Blashel kind of said postgame. Hopefully we get the video before the end of the show, but he said like it’s more it’s more about the execution from tonight than it is necessarily systems or you know guys being completely like confused about what’s going on out there. So, I think it’s the execution with Burkovski, like you you want him to be able to be a little bit more effective, be a little bit more assertive. Um, and and especially like when you’re playing with a guy who last year scored 30 goals and your center is Conor Bard, like you need to be able to find your role and and be reliable in it. Otherwise, like I’m I’m I’m not opposed to Ilia McKay of getting some run uh with with Conor Bard. He He was a guy. Yeah. He was a guy that like I feel like night in and night out McKay’s going to give you you know what you’re going to get out of him. Yeah. And you know I I’m not saying I’m not changing up that second line. So I’m I’m open to some suggestions if I’m Jeff Blashel about what do we do to make maximize Connor Bard and and through training camp through the preseason Burkovski and Donado made sense. their play styles can can work playing off of a number two. Burkovski missed some time in camp too with a little Yeah, a little bit of time. Um but if if Thursday’s game from from Burkovski and Donado look like tonight, I’m considering some some changes. Someone in the chat, Sarah, I think it was Conor Del Rio said uh something about Baddard need There it is. He said he says, “We keep saying Baddard needs better linemates, needs better lineates.” And while that still holds true, but Arch should be driving his line at this point being his third year, and he doesn’t. I I’ll I’ll disagree with that because a lot of the best scoring chances the Blackhawks had tonight were created uh either by Bard or were Bard on his own. Uh he was credited with uh two shots on goal. The one that hit the post does not count as a shot on goal. He also had four shot attempts. Set up uh Colton Dock for a really nice scoring chance. uh w we mentioned earlier walked Seth Jones kind of like dipsy doodled through his legs and and turned him around and just couldn’t convert on Babrosski. He was creating a lot of offense on his own. Yes, you want some help from his teammates. And here’s the question. Are you changing I know you said you’re keeping a second line together. Are you changing to look at that first line Thursday in Boston? Are you going to make are you going to give some other linemates to Bard? I don’t know if you can just completely bail on Donado and Burkovski because it’s one game against the Panthers as we’ve been saying all day. We shouldn’t make any grand conclusions based on this. But is this the opportunity Lucas Reichel needs to get back in the lineup? Maybe not with Bedard, but back in the lineup somewhere. I don’t know. I I does Colton Doc deserve some time up there. But then you’ve got Doc McKay and Baddard. I don’t know. That’s much more help than Donado and Burkov. I think if I I think if I’m making a change, I think I I probably go with what Blashel did is move McKay up and Donado down to the third, flip them first and third lines. I think I would do that and then see what that goes with. But again, do you need to completely change everything after one game? Probably not. I think you you give it another go in Boston and then make a little bit of an assessment before the home opener against uh against Montreal. Individually tonight, uh this is from Natural Stat Trick. Uh Connor Bdard, two shots on goal uh in a 1, two, three, four, five, six way tie uh for most on the team. Individual chances created uh three players had six individual chances created. That was Sanzel, Ryan Donado, and Connor Baddard. Individual scoring chances created, three for both Donado and Baddard. Individual high danger chances, one, two, three, four, five created. Conor Bard one of them. Five guys each created a chance and Bard was one of them. So individually, he was part of a group that had the most scoring chances, the most high danger chances, and the most just attempts to try and make something happen. So, he’s a guy that individually can can create, and we’ve seen that the first two seasons. this season. You know, you heard Kevin Weekes say on on the broadcast like in person at ice level, it’s evident that Conor Bernard is a faster player than he was before. It was evident in this game, too. Yeah. And I saw him back check several times. Yeah, it’s good. Hey, good job. Can’t can’t win the Sulki without without playing some defense. That’s what he’s going to start going for now. He heard everyone uh talking about Mlin Celibbrini being a two-way player. He said, “Ah, personally, Conor Bernard can become a two-way player.” All right, a couple super chats we want to get to. Nathan 10 bucks says, “The two most noticeable things to me tonight were team speed and skating. The amount of times the Panthers recovered on the back check, closed out, and blew by was very apparent in the skill gap.” Uh, I think he’s referring to the speed and skating of the Panthers. Um, yeah, it’s also just a very it’s a team full of allstars that all know how to play the game. And the one thing that everyone has said about the Florida Panthers that has made them special, I’ve heard Bill Zitto say it. I’ve heard um Jesus, why am I Paul Maurice say it, I’ve heard analysts say it is like when those guys go to that team, everyone buys into their role. There’s no like, hey, I’m a I’m a topline guy. Hey, come on. You know, I’m like I’m Brad Marshian. I got to be a topline guy. Like, no, he’s perfectly happy in a third line role on that team. Everyone is just committed to the system. And look, they a lot of them have been playing together for a long time, right? Paul Maurice has been there for a long time. So, the system is ingrained in these guys. So, Z that sort of thing I wouldn’t read into. I don’t know if Nathan, you missed it earlier in the show. I mean, it’s But AJ Greer was saying how fast the Hawks were and how they were causing them fists with their speed. Yeah. I mean, to It’s it’s it’s easy to buy in to a system like that when all you got to do is look at look at the backs of the guys’ hands and look up to the rafters. Oh yeah, if I buy into this, I can be a Stanley Cup champion. Like that’s what happens when when you get talented teams put together and they start playing a team system. And that was the conversation around, you know, when when there was the potential for Sam Bennett to hit free agency. And a lot of the conversation was like, yeah, like Sam Bennett like got put into the spotlight being with the Panthers and playing the role he did, but could he have come to Chicago and been the same Sam Bennett he was in Florida? Probably not, because it’s not the same it’s not the same team around him that allows him to play that style. So you have that group together and and if I mean look at the difference between Seth Jones and Florida and here. Yeah. Well, you know, narrative plays a that does play a big part, but he’s just free to play the role that he’s more fit to play at this point in his career. Yeah. I So I I I think the the team style that what the Panthers do is what the Blackhawks want to work towards, right? where it’s that that team sense of buyin, the pace of play, the relentlessness. Like look at how many times the Panthers just were on top of the Hawks time after time in the in their offensive zone to keep possession alive and and to keep the pressure on the Hawks to where they couldn’t get the puck out of the zone. That’s what you know guys that have the speed of Frank Nazar and Oliver Moore and Landon Slagger and all these guy that’s what that speed and relentlessness that you see Kyle Davidson building through the draft those those profiles of players when they mature in their game and they’re playing together as a unit. It’s that’s what they want it to look like. So, you know, I I I think we’re getting some glimpses of that now and hopefully by the end of the year, the system is a little bit more natural as we were kind of saying before. And then just the confidence to play in those roles and to play in that system gives them the ability to play with more speed that you can match something like the Panthers. Now, skill for skill, yeah, Panthers are more talented, right? But, you know, if you can if you can match a pace and not every not every game is against the Panthers. If you can if you can play at a pace that the Panthers do, but then do it against the Predators or do it against the the Kraken or do it against the Sharks, you can probably outpace, outspeed, outwork your way to a win in those games. Yeah, 100%. Uh, we are queuing up Jeff Blash and Spencer Knight. You’re going to hear from them in a moment. I do want to get to Labowski super chat real quick Sarah if we can. Uh he says for $5 I was skeptical skeptical about Nazar. I thought he was ultimately a third line score on a contender. I think he could be a core fourth best forward on a champion. I mean, this is big news that Labowski 5 is come around on Frank Nazar because this is one of the the the regulars in the chat that was just like fighting upstream with with Frank Nazar. So, shout out Labowski 5. I just I just I mean seeing the light. I I still am I am a little unclear on what Frank Nazar ultimately is superstar, but he’s got I don’t I think like the reason a lot of people don’t say superstar for Frank Nazar is because there was a lot of hype on him coming out of the draft. He didn’t absolutely light things up at Michigan. He was a really good player on a really good team, but it wasn’t like the stats were jumping off the page like to a bard level or oh my god, these are comical statistics we’re seeing here like Dave Bowling with the London Knights with his 120 something points. Maybe ultimately when the Hawks are Stanley Cup contenders again, Nazar is a third line guy, but that means a lot of other stuff has gone really really well, right? I He’s got speed. He’s got the willingness to defend. He looks like he’s added the ability to put the puck in the back of the net. He converted on his first breakaway chance this year. There’s nothing in his game that is a red flag to me. It’s just a matter of what is the ultimate endgame for him statistically. But right now, there’s nothing he can’t do. Yeah, he is Frankie Franchise. He is Frankie Franchise. Yeah, I I I think I think the the way he played in the back half of last season, what he carried through the World Championships, being invited to the USA Olympic orientation camp, the way he played through the preseason, like things are just rolling. Got the extension, things are snowballing so positively for him. And this is a guy that has a ton of self-confidence. Um, and he he backs it up on the ice. Like I I’ I’ve said it for a while since Jeff Bl’s come in that Frank Nazar is going to be a guy that I think can quickly maybe not better maybe not more than Ethan Delro, but I think Frank Nazar could become Jeff Blashel’s favorite player because of the way that he plays, the skill, the speed, the it just feels like a systematic fit for what he wants this team to be. And I I think Kyle Davidson probably looks to Frank Nazar and say that’s exactly that that speed, that mentality. Um that’s what you want to build with. And I I think he’s it’s infectious. You see Connor Bernard I feel like finally has his best friend and his running mate with, you know, in the locker room with him and and have it be Frank Nazar. And it’s a guy that like I don’t know. I just I I’m I’m as excited as we were on draft night when it was like, “Oh my god, they didn’t take Frank Nazar.” No, now they did take Frank Nazar. Um as excited as we were for him at that point to become a Blackhawk and see his his progress now that he’s squarely in the NHL, I’m even more excited to see what what he can become because all this talk about like Bedar’s got to get someone to help him. It could be him. I think Nazar’s Nazar is an in-house guy that is the first one that you point to and be like that’s that’s a guy that helps him. It takes pre takes pressure off of Baddard, takes eyes off of Bard. It gives another uh weapon that the Blackhawks have that opposition has to care about. You put them on different lines. You split up you split up the talent. It’s two guys that can drive their own line. And and yeah, I’m just I’m I’m very excited to see what Frank Nazar in a few years tops out at. Like I I I I I still don’t believe fully in this statement, but I there’s a better than 0% chance that Frank Nazar could lead this team in scoring this year. I I don’t think it’s impossible. That’s for sure. All right. Uh let’s hear from Jeff Flashel. He met the media a few minutes ago. Here’s what he had to say about the Blackhawks 3-2 loss to the Florida Panthers. What did you take away from that tonight? Um, well, you know, I think obviously Spencer was really good. Um, so that was a real positive. Um, I think uh I’m glad we’re in the in the situation uh 22, you know, in the third period. I’d like to be in that situation lots, but now we got to find a way to win those games. Um, you know, there’s certainly a lot of growth that we have to have. Um, you know, I I think coming into this, I I recognize, and I think I’ve talked about it with you guys, we’re going to have peaks and valleys, and we got to do a way better job of those valleys not being so low in terms of uh the types of mistakes that we make where, you know, to me, you’re kind of giving away chances. And so, we just got to continue to grow and work on finding ways to make sure we’re not uh giving away easy chances. They’re going to create enough on their own. Um, we got to make sure we do a better job of that. How would you rate the execution on the new systems in game one? I didn’t think it was a whole lot of system. Like I don’t think we’re going to walk out of the game and have like a big system meeting tomorrow. I think the game will be more on like pure execution probably more on um careless plays certainly with the puck being harder on the puck. I’ll give them tons of credit. You know, uh it’s a you know, they’re missing two great players. It’s a banner raising night. Sometimes you can kind of sleepwalk through those games and I thought they came out and played really hard. So, it’s a great lesson for us how hard you have to compete on pucks what type of stick battles you got to have. I think it’s going to be more that than than actual execution and systems. You talked about prior to the game uh and the guys talked about it after the game playing a complete 60 minutes that seems that was the big takeaway for you guys. Yeah, I thought at times we played good. You know, at times we’re in their zone and you know, second period was good. Um so, yes, you know, there’s going to be push back. there’s going to be es and flows to a hockey game. I I for me it’s it’s more of just the you know the individual mistakes can’t be so big. Um um you know you when you when you turn pucks over you’re going to have you know it’s going to look chaotic. So that can hurt your system play but everybody’s just in scramble mode at that point. I just think finding ways to minimize uh and not give up nearly as many chances in and throughout a course of a game and um you know we got to we got to step by step get better at that. You had a lot of guys who played NHL, young guys who played NHL games but maybe not season openers. Do you think I mean when you look at Renzel and Lechnoff in that first period that maybe some of that was jitters? Yeah, I think so. You know, and you know, we’ve got guys that you come up at the end of the year, you’re playing the last nine 10 games, uh this is a different animal and it’s only going to continue to ramp up, you know, and and so I think understanding uh what the level’s like, how how good you got to be every night. I mean, it is such an every night league. It is such an unforgiving league that you have to be on top of your game every night. You’re not going to be perfect. I get that. But you can’t let the low be so low, you know. And I think certainly uh there’s some guys that need to take that lesson and uh you know, kind of that’s their takeaway. Moving Mave up with Bedard in the third period. What was the thought process there? Uh we did a little bit late in the second. Um you know, I thought I thought I was uh was skating. Uh you know, the the thing that he can do is kind of go win pucks and I think that’s an important piece of that line. Um you know, I think Donald can score on his own. Um, uh, you know, he’s kind of a guy who I think can selfgenerate a little bit. So, we just thought maybe it would give us just a little more, you know, kind of, I guess, I don’t know if spark’s the right word, but like finding ways to win pucks and have the puck a little bit more in that line. What’ you make of how your team responded to after the first period? Yeah, you know, I thought we did a good job. I really did. I mean, you know, I thought obviously that was nowhere near our best. Um, and I thought we did a good job of of kind of individually responding and and and playing better and collectively doing that. And I thought the second was certainly our best period. You know, third was you kind of you kind of start, you know, once that goal, you know, the goal is a little bit of an unlucky break. Um um and then and then from there, we gave up chances the last 10 that we don’t need to give up. You can’t, you know, you can’t win the game or tie the game by giving up another goal necessarily. I know you got to press to score, but you can’t give up easy chances. So again, just lessons for us. Do you put a lot of stock in faceoff numbers or is that I mean how much influence do you think that is on the game or Yeah, I mean I think it’s a huge thing to be honest with you. Like I wouldn’t say it’s everything but it’s hard to chase it you know all night and and um you know so we we uh I think I just think it’s something that that is going to be continually important and when you win them and and you know winning them on special teams all those things are really important. What are the key positives to take away from this game going toe-to-toe with the Stanley Cup champs? Well, I think, you know, I think first off, I would say Spencer Knight was positive for sure. Um, I would say the fact that, you know, we responded in the second and played, uh, the type of hockey I think you have to play to be successful. Uh, you know, and and we had chances to tie it late. So, um, we don’t want to be a team that’s close, you know, we want to find a way to win that game. Um, that’s part of the growth process. All right, that’s Jeff Flashel courtesy of the Chicago Blackhawks. Uh, we saw a comment roll in on your comment about Nazar helping Bedard and uh, they said Nazar can’t help Baddard if they’re not playing together. Do you want to explain again why Yes. Repeat it again for those that were not listening why Nazar helps OD Paris? Nazar can’t help a dart if he’s not playing on his line. you have someone to Yes, I understand linemates makes a difference with who you’re playing with, but the idea that only linemates impact how guys can be uh helpful to an individual player is is not the end all beall. Look at I’ll I’ll say Seth Jones. Seth Jones with the Blackhawks, right? He’s a number one defenseman. did everything he could. Bad metrics, looked like a bad, you know, everyone talked about how bad he was. He goes to Florida, completely different group of teammates. His forwards are better. His goalender is better. And oh my gosh, look at that. He’s a much better defenseman all of a sudden. Like with with Bard, yes, linemates make an impact, but also the improved quality of teammate. You have a guy like Spencer Knight helps make a team better. Frank Nazar being a guy that can help Conor Bernard is in the line of it’s another option offensively that a team has to play against and with Baddard over the last year two years it was stop Baddard stop the Hawks and I think with a guy like Frank Nazar you don’t have that option anymore you have to worry about I mean look at look at tonight you kept Conor Bard off the score sheet but that second line with Nazar, Terravine, and Bertusi scored both goals and it was a one it was a one-goal game. Even if it looked maybe comfortable for the Panthers in a one-goal game statistically, um it’s you still had a a different option other than Conor Bard. And it’s not a one-off thing. Frank Nazar having a good game is not going to be a one-off thing over 82 games this year. He’s going to be a factor. So, you want to put him on the same line. Sure, you could do that if you’re Jeff Blas. But then again, you get down if you stop Nazar Ambidard on one line, you stop the Hawks. Yes. All right, it’s time to introduce your new segment. Yes, it is. You want to give the concept to the people at home before we uh unwrap this box? You all remember Conor’s Corner, right? We do fondly. when it was when Connor was the only thing that that we had to be excited about with the Blackhawks. He had his room, his race car bed, he had his uh parental controlled iPad with screen time. He had his nuggies. He had his, you know, his Jack in the Box and all that stuff. Well, now there’s more friends to hang out with Connor. And they’ve gotten older, much like in Toy Story 3 when Andy got older and went to college. Conor Bard and Frank Nazar and and all these guys, they’ve moved into the frat house on Madison. Yeah. Dirty laundry, red cups. Don’t touch those socks. Uh uh books. I think I see notebooks. Snap that sock in half. and uh the the the portion of the uh animal house poster that we can show without show legally without having uh our YouTube account get shut down. Uh the Fred House on Madison will highlight uh some of the best performances from the young players uh in each Hawks game postseason uh postgame shows because it’s not only about Connor now there’s other guys here. So, tonight uh fittingly it is Frank Nazar who is our highlighted uh frat house on Madison fraternity brother uh with his two-point night over 20 minutes of ice time and again just having a really big impact on the game. Um so yeah, I’m I’m hoping we can have some fun with this and and again like fitting with the theme that it’s it’s not just Connor now. There’s other there’s other guys. This season is that first actual wave of the rebuild being realized. Yes. All right. We are uh going to go to overtime on this show. If you’re watching us on Samsung or you’re watching us on Roku or any of the fast channels like that, you’re going to want to switch over to allo.com. If you’re on YouTube, we’re still here for you. So, stick around. Uh we want to hear from Spencer Knight who spoke after the game just for a minute and then we’re going to reveal the winner of our first game puck of the season. Here is Spencer Knight uh following tonight’s 3-2 loss against the Florida Panthers. It’s cool. Um well, you know, it’s interesting playing on the other side being here, but it was fun. What was your nerves like or how’d you feel during the day leading up to it? It was good. It’s just you just play your game, be yourself, and that’s all you you can do. You got lots of shots early. It’s all good. Yeah, just I try to be able to play in any situation. Video tribute looked like you either didn’t hear it or were conspicuously avoiding it. I wasn’t avoiding anything. I was just I was playing a game and I I made sure I slew the crowd, but I’m there to play hockey. And know you worked in your your glove and your stance this summer. It seemed like you were challenging and pretty successful with that tonight. How do you feel like it? It’s not really anything I’m really thinking about anymore. or just play hockey and try to be a good teammate and you know try to help when I can. Is it a little bit of a sort of posit not the result you guys wanted but going toe-to-toe with the chances a little bit of a comp coming like that at all? I wouldn’t say it’s we got to play every game. It doesn’t matter who we playing. I think that’s we we got to focus on us. We can’t focus on who we’re playing and just show up when you know we’re playing a cup champs like we got to play. Every team’s good in this league. So I love that dude. Short, sweet and to the point. I love Spencer Knight man. He is not here for your feel-good stories. He is not. I mean, he’s coming from those same Panthers uh down the hall. Uh, and you know, being in a in a room where, you know, you’re you’re competing for Stanley Cups and and being in that environment, you want to stay in that environment and and Spencer is going to be a guy that’s going to be around hopefully um should be at least for when the Blackhawks are getting back to that point um and getting up to that level of, you know, being in the conversation for contending and and all that. So, if he plays like like he did tonight, he’s going to help fasttrack that team uh to getting to that point. All right, Sarah, the time has come. Let’s reveal the winner of our first game puck. It is Spencer Knight. What was our final percentage for uh good old number 30? Let’s see here. We still have people voting, but we have a 75% Spencer Knight and a Frank Nazar has 25% and we have about 430 votes. Dang, that’s pretty good. Yeah, that’s great. Yeah, I just ended the poll. Yeah, it’s deserved. I mean, that’s Yeah, that is the uh that’s the proper vote. Spencer Knight kept them in this game and hung in there when he was the only one hanging in there. So, shout out Spencer Knight. Great game. All right, we’re going to wrap things up. We got everything right. Yes. Yeah. All right. Good job. Good first show. We did it, everybody. High fives all around. Um All right. We’re back tomorrow at 2:30. We’ll have uh plenty to discuss, I’m sure. And then we’ll have another postgame Thursday after the Hawks and Bruins. Like we said, if you’re new to the show, welcome. We’re glad you’re here. We are here 5 days a week. Non-game days at 2:30, game days, pregame for road games, home games, Greg and I are here. Greg Boyce and I, Mario stays at the United Center and and reports postgame um 82 times a year. We got your postgame show, even when the local channels don’t. Since we’re in overtime, I’m going to take advantage of the 502 eyes we have right now. Yeah. Thank you. The Cubs are in postseason and we have our last watch along tomorrow and we are It’s not the last watch along, Sarah. We might have our last watch along tomorrow. Uh Cubs are down two in the series. We are playing game three. Um if everybody can head over there, uh the game is at I believe the game’s at 4:08 tomorrow. Yeah. And so head over to CHO either sports channel, CHO Cubs channel. We will be doing a watch along and a postgame. Uh, so sickos come in and after us CHDO Bulls postgame. Yeah, first first for the Bullies. How’s it going for the Bulls? Are the Bulls silence? The The Bulls don’t know. Tight game late. Tight game late. There you go. All right. Tight game late. That’s what we want, baby. It’s a nailbiter. Tight games late. That is That That should be the slogan of the Bulls and Hawks this year. Tight game late, baby. Let’s go. All right, Bulls next. We’re back tomorrow at 2:30. Thanks for being here. We love you guys. Hit that like button on the way out. 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The Chicago Blackhawks fell to the Florida Panthers in a hard-fought Opening Night matchup, but Frank Nazar was the bright spot in a tough loss. On this CHGO Blackhawks POSTGAME Podcast, hosts Jay Zawaski and Mario Tirabassi break down Nazar’s standout performance, Spencer Knight’s great day in net, and what it means for the Blackhawks moving forward. We also discuss Connor Bedard’s third NHL season, plus key contributions from veterans Nick Foligno and Ryan Donato, and how Chicago can bounce back. Don’t miss this full breakdown of the Blackhawks’ Opening Night vs the Panthers!

00:00 START
01:30 First reactions
08:47 Spencer Knight
12:30 Artyom Levshunov & growing pains
20:30 Alex Vlasic
27:00 André Burakovsky & Spencer Knight
33:30 More André Burakovsky
38:00 Connor Bedard
45:45 Frank Nazar
49:45 Jeff Blashill postgame interview
58:30 Frathouse on Madison
59:30 Spencer Knight postgame interview
1:01:45 Game Puck

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