Chicago Blackhawks Going for Back-to-Back Wins vs St. Louis Blues? | CHGO Blackhawks PREGAME

Chicago Blackhawks Going for Back-to-Back Wins vs St. Louis Blues? | CHGO Blackhawks PREGAME

Can the Blackhawks make it two in a row tonight in St. Louis? We’ll preview the game next on CHGO Blackhawks. Hello. Welcome in to the CHCO Blackhawks pregame show presented by Bet 365. We’re so proud of you. Partner with our friends at Bet 365. And you know what to do. You download the app. You use our 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 Turbosi. Hello. That’s Sarah Victor over there. Hi. Producing the show. She’s been here since 5:00 p.m. doing socks, getting ready for pregame, watching horror movies. We are ready to go. And uh let’s start the show. Mario, you’ve got your Nick Felino uh hat on. If you’ve been kind of out and about today and you missed the news, uh Nick Felino will be on a leave of absence here with the Blackhawks for a little while uh as his daughter, 12-year-old, uh is dealing with the heart issue she was born with and having a procedure done. So, uh, our thoughts, uh, are with the Felino family. Always scary when there’s something medical with your kid. Um, but they’re in the right place. They’re in the right city. They’re with the right doctors. And, uh, I feel good that we’ll have a a really nice outcome with this whole thing, and we’re hoping so. All our best at the Fleos. Yeah. Uh, I mean the something that you know you always got to put your your family first in in those situations and um, yeah, hopefully it’s uh, is a routine thing, something that they um, were was kind of expected to to to happen and not a surprise, but again um, all the best to Nick and his daughter and the family and everything. Um, yeah, hopefully it’s it’s it’s all good and he rejoins the team. uh when the time is right. Yeah. If you want to get information, by the way, on Nick’s charity that he started um with his daughter in mind, go to hartsplaybook.com. You can get all the info there. Feel free to send a little donation. How about uh we put a couple uh $17 donations in the name of CHGO Sports from our audience. Sure. Let’s try to do that. If you feel like donating something, 17 bucks for Nick Fino’s jersey number. If uh half the people watching us do that, it’s a nice donation to heartsplaybook.com. Uh so do that if you are so inclined. I’m going to throw one in later today. I’m sure Mario’s going to throw one in, too. So uh let’s do it. Let’s uh get some money towards the Fenos and let them know we are uh supporting them. All right. Uh that aside and again, all the best to the Fenos. We are Hawks in St. Louis. 852 puck drop in St. Louis because they are the second game. 852 St. Louis time. Also Chicago time. Yes, that was the joke you said yesterday. That’s what he said. I thought that was clever. I am clever sometimes. Sometimes. Yeah, sometimes. Um, so that’s why we have the late pregame. Um, but look, this is an opportunity for two in a row. Uh, Arvid Slaughter Bloom is going to get the start and goal, which, you know, I feel five games in, there’s no such thing as a must-win, but you really want to ride these vibes that you have. Things feel pretty good. you’ve gotten off to a decent start getting a win against Utah in a game you probably didn’t deserve to win. It’d be nice to get one here in St. Louis, but the way Solder Bloom has played in the preseason and in his one start this year, I have I don’t think there’s a huge drop off at this point. Hopefully, I’m not afraid of Arvid Solderoom started a game uh so far this season. Um I don’t think there’s any reason to to worry about it. I think he’s proved last season uh that he can be a guy that you could put out and and be a be put into a starting position and actually give your team a chance to win. Um he did the same thing in his in his first start this season. He did not it wasn’t like a two years ago Harvard Sloom start where you were like pencil in four goals. This team has no chance. Um I think he’s he’s last season turned it around from there. Hopefully that continues as the season goes on, but so far I’ I’m not worried about it. And you know, we’ve we’ve talked about, you know, Spencer Knight wanting to be the starter, wanting to be a 60game starter in the NHL. Like that’s all well and good. Doesn’t mean he’s going to do that this season. could as the season goes on could play his way into that, but I don’t think you need to be pounding the table to say Spencer Knight needs to start seven games in a row and you know, anything like that. Like, ease into it. It’s a it’s a long season. You don’t want to throw a guy uh into that situation, especially this being his first year being the quote unquote starter. Um you don’t need to throw him into that if you if if you don’t feel like he needs to right now. and and I think this team trusts Arvid to give them a good a good start. All right. Well, here’s the lineup today. Again, they’re doing the 11 forwards and seven defenseman thing. Baddard with Doc and Burkovski. Nazar with Terrain and Natusi. Dickinson with Donado and McKv. Your two extra forwards are Reichel and Green. And your D pairs are Vicronel, Grizzlick, Murphy, Kaiser, and Levchov and Louis Creier. If you want to call him the seventh or Lev the seventh or whoever the seventh, those are your seven. Um, so it’ll be interesting to see last game a nice even distribution of minutes from all the defenseman. You didn’t see anyone super super taxed. Uh, and maybe that’ll be the case tonight if if it’s not a uh big journey to the pen box like it was against Montreal. Yeah, hopefully not. Um yeah, I mean with with Felino out, Riel uh gets back into the lineup which is good good for him. Um his one game that he played was the game against Montreal, 10 penalty kills. He wasn’t able to uh get a ton of ice time uh out there. So um good to get him back in there. Hopefully, it’s a normal game so he can get uh enough looks that Jeff Blashel can give him a fair assessment. As he said after that game, not enough time to get really a fair assessment of it. So, good for Riel. Um I’m going to be interested to see how that plays out with the 11 forwards because as Jeff Blash has explained, he talked about it yesterday, you know, trying to play some matchup games and get Connor Bernard out there with different line combinations and and maybe get him away from St. Lewis’s um shut down uh matchups and you know with the seven defenseman it evens things out on the right side with those guys with Creier who’s stepped in and played pretty well in his uh three games so far this year. He’s made an impression on Jeff Blashel. You trust Conor Murphy uh as the veteran guy. And then Renzel and Levinov, you’re still trying to figure out what they can give you night in and night out at the NHL level. They’re your power play guys. You don’t want to overt tax them. uh at least early on. So you kind of evenly dist trying to at least evenly distribute that right side of the defense. And then the left side talked about Wyatt Kaiser. He’s had off to a great start this uh this season defensively. Matt Grizzlick as a veteran, I think you you try not you probably don’t worry about him all that much. And Alex Vassic, I think you you trust what what you’re going to get out of him as well. So I think defensively we’ll see that Krevier Levchenov rotation with Kaiser uh at five on five and then yeah special teams it balances out. Why don’t we hear from the Blackhawks head coach Jeff Washel right now. We spoke after the morning skate today. A uh riveting 14minute morning skate ahead of Hawks and Blues. Here’s what uh here’s what a very exhausted Jeff Lashall had to say out of breath after that warm-up. random theory I had is that with your defensive system being a little bit more aggressive and getting guys out and killing plays, that puts more pressure on the goalies to kind of read and react to rebounds because there’s not a ton of guys around them to clear it. Do you feel like that’s the case? Um, I I would just say it’s a different than Yeah. If you if you constantly have 2D at home, you know, you’re you might be in better position. I think when you get good at the system that we’re playing, you you beat your guys back to the net. But yeah, I think you know probably you might have bigger uh breakdowns, you know, like so you might end up with like a an opportunity for the goalie where he needs to make a huge save whether it’s on a rebound or kind of a breakdown, you know. So, um I think theoretically you want to spend as little time in your end as possible and that’s the reason for the pressure. Um but with pressure sometimes you’re going to break down and and the goalie’s gonna have to make a big save. Spencer in particular seems very good at that um at reacting to rebounds and everything. Is it almost, you know, taking advantage of that being a skill of his? Uh, with who? Spencer. Oh, Spencer. Yeah. Yeah. You know, Spencer’s got great athleticism and and I think uh he definitely has the ability to make those big saves on on those kind of rebound situation slash breakdowns, you know, and so I think it I think, you know, a pressure type system does fit him well. And and um you know, the because the reverse is kind of you’re in you’re in and there’s a lot of traffic type situations and stuff like that. and every goalie probably struggles with traffic, especially really small ones like Panger. Um, so you know, like that’s that’s why, you know, ultimately we do think we’re, you know, kind of taking advantage of their strengths. And then on a different note, how do you feel like the communication especially between the players and the bench has been this year? Uh, good. actually uh you know it’s something that um uh you know I guess from my own kind of approach is is you know I think I coach the team and and and the players are are there to to to lift each other up and and kind of you know help each other as much as they can and talk through situations and I think our bench has been really good so far and you know I think we fought through frustration when we’ve needed to. Uh certainly the Montreal night although it was self-inflicted we we fought through that frustration pretty well. I think I thought our bench stayed pretty steady and and um you know a good uh I think good for our guys for that. With Felino being missing, how will you miss his presence? Uh well, first he’s a good player, you know, and so it’s a good player and that’s not in in the lineup. Um uh so that’s one he he can win faceoffs. He’s he’s accountable, but he’s also, you know, he obviously made a great play in the power play goal the other night. He’s he brings a lot to the table. Um and two, just his leadership presence. You know, he’s definitely he’s a a great elite leader. Um, so you know when you don’t, you know, he’s an extension of the coaching staff and so, um, now I think we have other guys in the room that that can help pick it up. It’s like like if as if he was injured, you just next man up has to do a job and next man up also means the next leadership man up, you know, and I think certainly with Murf and Dicki, we’ll we’ll be in good hands tonight that way, too. And then with that leadership coming off getting some positive momentum with the win against Utah, just how important is it for them to make sure the team’s prepared for the potentially hostile environment here with rivalry national TV and little funky with a late start. Yeah, I mean I think you know we we understand um certainly all our players do and I do you know how difficult this building is to play in. Uh it’s a great one of the great buildings in the league. I think uh it’s a it’s a real home ice advantage and so um you know I think momentum is a big deal at that point and and handling the momentum swings in a game is going to be real important and you know last game we got scored on uh in the third period and we went right back down had an unbelievable shift uh where we hemmed them in their end and that that helps turn momentum and that kind of thing is even more important on the road. So that’ll be you know a big piece of it for sure. Um, we know, we understand like we we won a hockey game. Um, just like when we lost the previous game, we got to come out the next night and find a way to win. And it’s the same thing here tonight. That is Jeff Flashel and Ben Pope courtesy of the Chicago Blackhawks. I love when, you know, when Ben’s working on a story, he gets really granular with his questions. And I you can we’ve gotten to the point now we’ve been on the beat so long that we’re like, “Okay, Ben’s working on something, so we’ll leave this one out of our Yeah. Right. you know, our postpractice show. Also nice when you’re the only person that goes on a one game road trip. You get to I’m sure he gets to talk to a bunch of the players today. I hope he won’t talk longer than they practice. I bet he’s a vegan, right? Uh vegetarian. I don’t know. Okay. Well, he doesn’t get to go to Joya’s, which is the one reason anyone would ever go to St. Louis. Uh the uh Oh, man. One of the best sandwich shops in the country. It’s a good thing when you stop by, go through St. Louis to get to better cities. Stop at Joya to get lunch and then just keep going. Sure. Keep going to Louisville or Nashville or Florida. Wherever you’re going, just stop at Joya’s when you’re in St. Louis. Trying to think. Don’t worry about it. It’s a south St. Louis. That’s all that matters. If you’re going to Nashville, I don’t I don’t think I would make a detour. I don’t think we went to St. Louis when we went to Nashville. I stopped in St. Louis on the way to Kansas City. That makes sense. Um Yeah. And try Joyous for the first time. And I was so uh I loved it so much that I called the one person from St. Louis that I like, Chris Ramsey, and I said, “How did you not tell me about this place?” And he insisted he did, and he didn’t. He’s a liar and a jerk. Just the disrespect to Windy City hockey. I don’t He’s here often enough. You’ve had your last Hawks fan. He’s a Hawks fan. So, you know, he I’ll say a Blues fan. How about that? St. Louis fan that I that I like. There we go. That’s better. Uh we got some super chats. We can get to those real quick, Sarah, if they’re ready to go. Just one from Corey. I says, “I just hope we get less than six penalty minutes from RD tonight. I’ll take over six. If there’s a fight, if he punches a St. Louis Blues player in the face repeatedly, I’ll live with that.” Sure, that’s fine. I’ll live with that. Yeah, I I’ I’d like to think that, you know, the the response game he had after uh being the scratch uh for the home opener, you know, I I think that um I I I think that’s what you wanted to see. You wanted to see the kind of game that he had on the McKay of goal. Um you know, taking a hit to make a play that was commended by by Jeff Bl. That’s the kind of things that you want to see uh young players as they grow and develop their game kind of understand is is not every play is going to be neat and tidy and clean and look highlight reel. Sometimes you’re going to have to do things that um you know don’t show up on the score sheet or don’t you know go more or less go overlooked uh by the fan base or or the stat sheet or anything like that. like making those small plays that can lead up to bigger things. Like that’s that’s part of the the winning habits of hockey that Jeff Blashel is is is preaching. And I it was good to see uh Arty have a game like that. And and again, as we have this grand conversation with him, he’s turning 20 uh in about two weeks, so it was still a very very raw young defenseman. Um and the Blackhawks believe in him figuring these things out now in the NHL rather than um you know going to Rockford or anything like that. And one I I think that’s something with Levino that I I think there might be some misconception about amongst uh the fan base. I I think a lot of people are perceiving how Blashel has handled Levchin so far in an on ice uh way. I don’t Saturday scratch wasn’t an on ice thing. Sat I I think Saturday scratch was a NHL mentality thing with Levchenov. I don’t think it is he needs to figure out his game in Rockford and then come back to N come back to Chicago. I think it’s a he needs to learn to be learn the life of the NHL and I think Saturday might have been part of that a part of the like accountability like the standard being set. Not saying he’s got off ice issues or anything. I just just more of what a professional day in and day out NHL player is held to. See, it’s interesting. I thought it was more about the play where he just like kind of stopped playing cuz he I forget what the situation was but there was a kind of a oh he took the penalty behind the play got the stick up and they called it penalties you don’t like but the play was ongoing and he just sort of stopped playing and I felt like maybe it was kind of a response to that but yeah I think look like that’s and and as as Blol said the day after that happened or maybe it was a game after that happened you know postgame he basically said like look development doesn’t just you play. Like there’s way more to development than just saying you’re on the ice, go figure out how to how to play, how to be a pro. And look, like Arty’s up against it, too, in the regards of very new at English, far from fluent. Um, so the the language barrier is there for him. So I think he’s doing the best he can to figure out. I’m really glad that Wyatt Kaiser has taken him under his wing and has kind of made it his own personal uh I don’t know you call it like his own personal assignment to take care of Lev and make sure that he’s understanding where to be that he’s feeling communicated with and and kind of coached on the side and that’s you know you talk about leadership that’s why Kaiser showing leadership and saying look if this guy’s going to be my D partner for the next at least three years I want him to I want to m I want him to max out because even if even if you’re looking at it cynically and saying, “Well, Wyatt Kaiser just wants to what’s best for him.” And if Lefchoff plays great, then it’s going to look really good for Wyatt Kaiser. Cool. Great. That’s that’s great for everybody, right? Uh so, sure. But I think he he genuinely likes the kid, wants to get him to a level where he’s comfortable because I think everybody can see that when Lev understands what’s happening and when he’s fully immersed, when he’s playing at his best, he is a differencemaker. Even at 19, we have seen those flashes of, oh boy, when this is when this becomes the norm, when this becomes the better part of 82 games, this guy’s going to be a force to be reckoned with. And I think when you not to I hate to bring Kevin Korchinsky and everything because I’m not giving up on him by any means, but I think part of the reason that part of the fan base is soured on Korchinsky a little bit is we saw him for a full year at the age of 19 and there weren’t really those moments that jumped off the screen where you’re like, “Oh my god, only a handful of players can do that and he just did that.” We haven’t seen that. We have seen that from from Lev a few times already. So, it’s, as I’ve been saying all along, it is it’s going to be a roller coaster with him. You want the you want to be on the incline more than a decline on that roller coaster when when it really peaks out. But, I don’t want that aggressiveness coached out of him. I don’t want him punished for taking a chance that maybe he shouldn’t have. I just think you need him to use those instincts that got him to be the number two overall pick. It’s a matter of reigning it in and teaching the context of when to do it. Yeah. Um, beyond him, the other thing that we need to see in this game is more from Baddard and Nazar. Last game against Utah, they combined for one shot attempt. I I don’t care who the opponent is. I don’t care who what the situation is. Those guys have to create offense. They have to create chances. Um, I think Conor Bard should have 10 shot attempts every game. find find a way that like he’s got to be he’s got to be more aggressive. He’s got to be shooting. I like the way he started three points in four games. That’s good. I’m not trying to, you know, I’m not trying to panic or anything like that, but the kid is at the age now where he needs to be a factor every night. Nazar the same. I’m confident they will be. Um, but if they’re gonna go on any sort of winning streaks this year, two in a row, three in a row, maybe four in a row, they have to be factors every single night. And they weren’t against Utah. I really want to see the two of them bounce back tonight. The good thing is even though they weren’t against Utah, they found a way to win, right? And that’s a silver lining to your point. But yes, you want Baddard and Nazar to be noticeable night in and night out, whether it’s goals and points and all that or if it’s, you know, the offense is flowing through them and they’re they’re making things happen. Um the one shot attempt between the two of them, you’re not going to win many games. No, that way. Um you can’t always rely on Andre Burkovsky having a big night or your second power play unit outplaying your f like that. That’s not a recipe for success. The way they played in that game, though, was uh an example of like how you can go into a game that’s not pretty, that’s not, you know, your stars don’t have it that night, but you can still get out with a win. I would like to see tonight be a game that is a little bit more fun to watch for staying up this late to watch it. Yeah, Utah was a rough one, man. I’m glad they won, but of course, you know, you’re on you’re on national TV. Uh you want to put on a a good performance. Um, and you want to do it against, you know, a divisional rival. You want to be able to, you know, get your wins in division. Um, because that you just you just feel better uh about yourself beating a team that you’re going to see multiple times knowing and building that confidence of like, well, we we have the recipe of what can beat you once. We can tap back into that and do it again. Um, and yeah, I I think as the season goes on, as you see, I mean, we’ve seen that second line with Nazar, Terravine, and Bratusi, they played together a little bit last year. They’ve carried what they built uh late last season, carried that into this year. I think that line has been working really well. Uh Tyler Batuzi. I think for me personally through the first uh handful of games of the season, I’m uh even though he hasn’t been like consistently putting up points, every game has looked similar in that he is making things happen. Yeah. Um you know, keeping plays alive, making big effort plays. Uh he’s just a really solid start to the year for him. Um and then that top line with you know uh Doc and Burkovski and Bdard. Now um the first game that those three played together was really good. Uh the second game you know Bard was not much of a factor but you had Burkovski come up with a big game uh as well and Colton Doc I think can find his way through. So if those two lines with, you know, centered by Nazar and Bard highlighted by those guys, if those can get working to a point where, you know, if they’re both clicking at the same time, great. But if one’s not, you want to hope that the other is kind of picking up that slack so that those top that top six is where you’re getting um a lot of your like consistent play. Uh and then your and then your bottom six can kind of fill in the roles and bottom five rather. Um, yeah, they can they can fill in the roles that they need to and you have the right types of role players in those positions that you don’t necessarily need them to be the, you know, pick up the slack offensively, uh, but they have the ability to do so when called upon. We got a few minutes left of the pregame show here. 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Thank you very much. Moontheme Sarah if I send you something in Slack. How can you get it up before the pregame’s over? Yeah. Okay. Let’s do it. Challenge accepted. I’ve had I’ve had harder tasks. Okay. We’ve got got some breaking NHL news. I know this is the pregame for the Blackhawks and Blues game, but we have some breaking NHL news that I think we need to discuss. Should I wait? Should I try to get something else or what should we do? Uh, well, we can we can vamp. This is this is uh news regarding the team that the Blackhawks just beat uh on Monday night. Um, the Utah Mammoth now have a mascot. Welcome, Tusky the Mammoth. No, no, Tusky. Yeah, Tusky. He’s He’s just a little Tusky. I liked their colors. I like their logo. I don’t like this though. This is This is scary. That’s a That’s a man myth. This doesn’t even look like that’s a person wearing a mammoth head. I mean, we can’t do better than Tusky. Tusky. Tusky the mammoth. What’s wrong with Tusky? I have several thoughts about what’s wrong with Tusky. Tusks up. Okay. No, it’s all about Tusks now that they’re the mammoth. I’m I’m good on Tusky. What about you? If Well, what’s what’s wrong with you? Isn’t he the uh Hurricanes GM by the way? Eric Tosski Tolski. Oh, Tolski. I’m sorry. I just think uh I don’t know. Bring Can you pull him up again, Sarah? Is it Did we miss it? Is it too late? It’s all right. Don’t worry about it. Um I just He’s not How about the one? Yeah, here’s the deal. Look at him. He’s He’s He’s unfrozen from the the Ice Age. It’s Tusky. He’s unfreez unfrozen caveman lawyer. They should have had him instead. I just think that he’s a little bit uh looks it looks a little thrown together is what I’ll say. Like, hey, run to Spirit Halloween and grab an elephant costume and we’ll throw some tusks on it and call him Tusky. I don’t know. He’s got his own Twitter account. I like the logo. See, the logo is cute. Yeah. Well, that’s He doesn’t look like that. They’ll put that on hats and and give it to fan. Well, the the Tommy Hawks got a kids version logo that they put on little kids stuff. So, Tusky’s got Yeah. I will say my first impressions of Gritty were not were not positive and Gritty has won my heart. Um I’m hoping that I don’t know if Tusky is hoping Tusky can do it. Some Gritty Gritty is literally just a orange hair person and Tus that’s a mammoth. Like I think Gritty can get away with things cuz they’re kind of ambiguous. Well, and and Jacob with a good call back says not as bad as bed check Charlie who is the Lewis University mascot that has been discontinued. But they’ve got a new mascot of Louiswis. We won’t find a picture. Um, isn’t it? It’s terrible. It’s like a bird. Yeah, you said it was like a hawk aviator or something like that. Yeah, Bedch Charlie is the old one. Bed. It used to be my friend. Uh, my goodness. My friend Jill was in Bed Check Charlie. Uh, the new one’s name is Fitz. Fitz. Uh, but it’s after the first dorm at Lewis University, Fitzpatrick Hall, which was the home of the radio station when I was there because I’m old. So, they named that. That makes sense. What was it? What was the dorm named after? Uh, I think it was the first school president, I believe. So, wouldn’t you say the mascot is named after the president? Yeah. Fitz. Yeah. Well, yeah, I guess so. I guess so. I got you. But that was the Fitz was like the what everybody called the dorm when they live there, right? So, that’s I think that’s mentioned. Anyway, no one cares about any of this. Tusky. So, welcome to the NHL, Tusky. I guess if you’re entertaining like Gritty, Tusky’s hook is going to be Gritty is also a supreme athlete. He has done things like on social media videos that I cannot believe he actually pulled off in a full mascot costume. It’s impressive. Yeah, he is an impressive mascot. So, we also know that uh Tommy Hawk is not one to back down from a fight. So, don’t mess with Tommy Hawk. They are not I don’t know if Tommy Hawk is a I would imagine a manird. Well, yeah. I don’t know. Yeah, I know. Southpaw usually a female inside. Oh, there you go. You never know. All right. Well, this has been riveting stuff. Uh, I’m glad you I I think everyone’s really glad they they uh hung out with us for that conversation. But guess what? The puck’s going to drop in 2 minutes. Will you get Tusky uh breakdowns? There you go. Grab your late night coffee. Stay up with us. We’ll be on as soon as the game ends. So, be with us here on the postgame show. Hit that like button on your way out if you’ve not done it yet. We’ll talk to you as soon as Hawks and Blues wrap up right here on the CHDL Blackhawks postgame show presented by Bet 365. We all silly like the mayor.

The Chicago Blackhawks are aiming for back-to-back wins as they hit the road to take on the St. Louis Blues! In this CHGO Blackhawks Pregame Show, we break down key players like Alex Vlasic, Connor Bedard, and Frank Nazar, while analyzing how the team will adjust with Nick Foligno out. Head Coach Jeff Blashill shares his strategies and insights, giving fans a look at how the Blackhawks plan to take on the Blues away from home. Don’t miss our full breakdown of the matchups, predictions, and storylines before puck drop!

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