BLACKHAWKS POSTGAME: Chicago Overcomes 3-Goal Deficit, SNAP Losing Streak | CHGO Blackhawks

BLACKHAWKS POSTGAME: Chicago Overcomes 3-Goal Deficit, SNAP Losing Streak | CHGO Blackhawks

Hawks come back from a 3 nothing deficit to beat Anaheim 5 to3. Four points for Conor Bedard. Tons to discuss. Join us on the CHL Blackhawks postgame show coming up next. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Yeah. [Music] [Music] Welcome into the CHGO Blackhawks postgame podcast. Hawks win 5-3 over the Anaheim Ducks. We are presented by Bet365. Download the Bet365 app. Use our code cho365 when you sign up. Whatever the moment, it’s never ordinary at bet 365. I’m Jay Zawoski. That’s Greg Boyce. Khloe and Joey are here running the show right now. Mario is back at the United Center will join us after his locker room duties wrap up. But boy, what an afternoon at the United Center. The Hawks get down 3 nothing in the first period. They’re down 2 nothing 47 seconds into the game and they come all the way back, beat the Ducks 5 to3. A four-point night for Connor Baddard. This is gonna be a game to remember for sure. I mean, we heard Jeff Blill talk a lot since coming back from that Buffalo debacle about teams have to learn, especially young teams, they have to learn how to play when things aren’t going their way, when they don’t have it on a on a given night. They have to figure out how to at least go out there and what he called tie your shift. You don’t have to win every ship. you just have to tie your shift. And uh tonight was a was a day that man that start was awful. Yeah. About as bad as you can get. Um and even when they were making their comeback in the second and third period, everything was difficult. There was not a crisp pass the whole night except for when you shouldn’t have been passing. Like everything was just a chore. Pucks were getting fumbled and kicked and all that stuff. and yet they found a way to win five straight goals. This was the team that we saw for the first 15 games of the year. That team that was like, “Hey, we’re not out of any game. We’re not going to give up.” The the resilient team, that team was back tonight. We hadn’t seen that team in a few games. Uh but to wrap up this stretch with eight games at home and nine with a win after, you know, the fiveame losing streak, that’s a big deal. Yeah. And I think you know you we talked about the last game like you’ve got to learn to win and you had some kind of moral victory type performance. It’s like oh well you know they they only lost by one to Colorado when they were right there with them and that stuff starts to wear thin when the winds aren’t coming and you got the vibes early where oh my god it’s two nothing 43 what 47 seconds into this game and this could be another Buffalo situation but fortunately they kind of figure things out. They get a they get a late goal in a period for once uh with what like two minutes left to go in the first and that’s it. They that’s just kind of the spark they needed to see like okay we are not completely out of this thing. They started this the second period with the power play and just never really let down. And I’ll say one thing like there’s still a long way to go for this team before we start talking about you know competing in the playoffs and making it maybe competing in is a ways away competing for Stanley Cups even farther away but games like this where you have a unified team comeback and like you said in a game where you don’t have your best it was a slopfest and I feel like afternoon games are pretty frequently like that because you don’t have a morning skate. It’s just these are creatures of routine and you don’t get your game day routine in. So, I feel like what every time I’ve watched an afternoon game, it’s been kind of off. Yeah. For both teams. Yeah. I mean, the the early start certainly didn’t affect Anaheim. I mean, no. Well, no. I mean, as Jeff Blanchell said earlier when he spoke, he’s like, well, both teams have to start at this this time. So, right, they found their footing early, but then they, you know, they they rested on their laurels and thought a three-goal lead was good enough to win. and we saw what happened. Yeah, it’s I’m just I think it is a character win for the Hawks. And I think what’s nice about it is you get taught a lesson um of you have to be ready the second the puck drops regardless of excuse, regardless of game time, regardless of whatever. And you’ve got to be ready to go. You’ve got to be ready to compete because if you’re not, it only takes 47 seconds for a good NHL team like the Ducks to come and and take a very quick lead. So you get that lesson and you escape with the win. It’s good stuff. You know who else is ready to go? Are we doing for the first hundred? We’re putting Noodle Man on for the first hundred likes. I mean, it’s a it’s a It’s every hundred, but I feel like the first hundred is kind of like I What? I mean, we did snap a f the Blackhawks snapped a fivegame losing streak. 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I have the remote and you don’t. So, you’ll do whatever I say. All right. But thank you for 218 likes and counting. Keep them going. Every hundred we will turn on uh Noodle Man for the remainder of the game. So, uh, you know what I really liked about this game, by the way? No. Is the Conor Bard at the end of the game, just giving it to the Ducks bench. Yes. Yes. Love that. I love that red ass Conor Bernard is my favorite Conor Bernard. Uh, I mean, that started the shift before they him and Mason McAvish, who I believe are, you know, familiar with each other. They’ve played on World Junior’s teams together and um I’m sure they’ve done a lot of camps and all that stuff, but uh you know, they both got tossed out of a faceoff circle and they were, you know, slashing each other and chirping and then, you know, Bard gets his empty net goal and he just turns right to the Ducks bench and talked his crap. You’re allowed to do that when you own the team. Yeah. And he owns the Ducks. 16 points in eight games. That’s crazy. And only three goals. That’s even crazier. So, he’s got a five-point game and now a four-point game against the Ducks in his career. So, uh when you own the team, you can talk any way you want to to anybody on that bench. I love it, man. I love that he is, you know, feeling confident enough to do that knowing now that he’s great. Any doubt has been removed. I think any doubt that people had the first two years that he wasn’t quite lighting the league up as maybe we had expected him to do right away out of the uh out of junior um I think all those doubts have been smashed and he was dynamite and it was one of those games where you’re like you know you look up like oh man four points you two goals great the third like the the third point the first goal where he uh de jocks vleo that one is very noticeable but like he’s going to start having these games where you Patrick Kane used to have these all the time. At the end of the day, you’d look down be like, he had three points tonight. Just because they’re the passing is that good and the vision is that great. And that Ryan Green goal, man. The Bedar no look pass on the tape. Dude, Ryan Green had a great game. We’ll talk about him later. I mean, it’s it’s uh funny how there’s no uh there’s no chatter right now about how he needs to be taken off the top line. Maybe, just maybe, Jeff Blashel kind of sort of knows what he’s doing. Maybe he might. I mean, look, he’s he’s he’s a skilled player. He has had a little bit of trouble finishing this year. Um I know you found something. Do you want to share that now or are you saving that for your written content? Um, I can do I can share them in both places. Go for it. Yeah. No, the coming into tonight’s game, Ryan Green and Frank Nazar had the same amount of high danger scoring chances, 15. Now, granted, Frank missed a couple of games, but Ryan Green has as many high danger chances at five on five as Frank Nazar did coming into the night. And he probably has more. I’d have to look to see uh what this I don’t remember. I don’t I I don’t remember uh Frank Nazar having too many high danger looks. Green had two, Nazar had one. So now he has more than Frank Nazar. So is Ryan Green a long-term prototypical elite firstline winger? No, probably not. But it’s working right now. So, just let it like Jeff Blasio’s biggest thing when he’s when he’s talking about his team offensively and and I know he thinks about this when creating the lines is creating chances. He doesn’t care about shots on goal. It’s the chances. Ryan Green is creating scoring chances. As long as he’s creating chances, he’s your first line winger. When he stops creating those chances or taking advantage of the chances that Conor Bard is creating, he’ll be off that line. Well, I think he’s also he’s a nice fit on that line, too, because as long as it’s going to be Bard and Burkovski, as good as Baddard’s playing, and as good as Burkowski’s been, he was butt cheeks today, but we’ll get to that later. Um, they are both turnoverprone. They’re guys who make high-risk plays where they try to stick handle through traffic. They can pull it off. They have the skill to do it, but now and again, it’s going to catch you. And you’ve got a guy in Ryan Green who plays a simple game. He’s got skill. He’s got the ability to put the puck in the net and create some offense, but he’s also reliable defensively and can go and sort of protect against those mistakes. I’m not going to compare him to Brandon Sod because he wears Brandon Sod’s number, but Brandon Sod was a similar kind of offensive player where yeah, he could put the puck in the net, but you also benefit a lot from his ability to shut down plays in all in all three zones. And I I think that Ryan Green, yes, when this team is competing for Stanley Cups, Ryan Green will not be your top line left winger. he will be your third line center and that will be really really good. Yeah, that’s that’s his that’s his natural role. But if things are good, if things are rolling, let it roll. And and and I applaud Jeff Blasio for having, you know, patience with these lines. Uh you know, they he doesn’t yank a line after one bad period or one bad game. He gives them time and he’s given this line time. and Ryan Green on that line with Burkovsky and Bard, it’s been they’ve put up the best numbers out of any other person that’s been on the line. Yes, it’s they’ve had the most time together, but they percentage-wise they’ve been the best uh combination. So, ride it until it doesn’t work anymore. Like, I know a lot of people are like, “Oh, you know, he’s he he doesn’t belong on that line.” Well, right now, November 30th, he does. Yeah, he’s January 1st, maybe not, but just let it ride out. He’s not going to play there his whole career, right? Yeah. I mean, he’s having a great run and I love the fact that he’s finally getting rewarded and and finishing some plays. He had the power play goal against Nashville, uh, and then the the twoon-one today. He was able to bury that. Those are huge type of plays for his confidence cuz now he’s like, “Okay, I can score at this level.” Yeah. And he’ll he just will let it happen more naturally. When our buddy Gravely says, uh, “Ain’t saying that’s how Green turns out, but Brandon Hegel was a guy who no one had real offensive expectations for, and you liked him as a well-rounded player.” Uh, he says, “Nobody thought Brandon Hegel would make the league when he did. He projected as a bottom six type guy. Things happen.” Yeah, I mean, that’s that’s truth. Brandon Hegel just figured it out at the NHL level. And I think a lot of people say, “Well, it took him to go to Tampa.” No, it didn’t. Brandon Hegel was a really effective player on the Blackhawks. And if you remember when he got traded was the first time when Taves was like, “What are we doing?” Like, if a guy like that can’t be part of the future here, like what are we even doing? Like that was the that was the the first time we saw Jonathan Taves publicly get frustrated with the rebuild. And at the time, completely understandable. Brandon Hegel was playing his ass off was found money and you moved him, you know, for picks and and for Taylor Radish and Boris Kachuk, Blackhawks legends and it didn’t make sense at the time. 20 goal scorer Taylor Rash. Yeah, exactly. And Conor Bernard’s biggest inspiration. Hey, I saw that the other day. Um, so you know, yes, there I think there is a potential for Ryan Green to become more than maybe we think he’s going to be. I mean, look, the fact that the expectation was and if not for injury probably would have been him starting the season in Rockford, he was he was sent down at the last day of training camp. Yeah. And now to be 20, he gets what promoted probably where this was game 25, so it would be probably the 20th game or so. He got promoted to top line full time. He had a little bit earlier in the year. He was for a couple games. Yeah. and then they moved it around a little bit, but yeah, for the last, you know, six or seven games, he’s been up there and uh you’re welcome. And uh it’s it’s a trigger, you know, doesn’t even bother me anymore. Um but uh yeah, it it’s been really good. And and Jeff Blash said before the game, I asked him about Ryan Green, and he says like he’s a cerebral player. He called him cerebral that he’s smart and he knows how to find the openings on the ice. He knows where to be at the right times. And when you got a guy like Conor Bard on your line, being where you’re supposed to be is going to pad your stats big time. Yeah, that helps. He flat out said it. Yeah. He’s playing, first of all, he’s playing with really good players, but he also knows how to play with really good players. That’s it. That’s the That’s the thing. Like, know your role and shut your mouth. Yeah. I mean, come on. Artman Eimoff made a career about just letting the puck hit him. I mean, he got to play with Patrick Kane and Art Tammy Paneran. Yep. Yep. Why? Because he knew where to be and he was always there, right? All right. Uh, got to hit the break zone, but game pucks real quick. Uh, Conor Bernard, obviously two goals, two assists, and some smack talk. Uh, Ryan Green with a goal in this one. And Mario’s nominee is video replay. We’ll have him explain that when he jumps on the show in a little bit. When we come back, you’re going to hear from Connor Badard postgame. 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So um I think we all took init took initiative there after the first and um you know step it up. what was said in those last few minutes and after going on um no recollection. No, I don’t know. Just normal um normal stuff. It’s you know competitive game and um you know runs into it and makes it more fun. You guys see them again next Sunday. Do you think there’ll be any carryover? Uh I don’t know. I mean end of the day it’s hockey. Uh you still got to make plays and score goals, you know. It’s not just going to be uh fights, you know. So, um it’s it’s going to be a game we’re both trying to win and um it’ll obviously be very competitive. You know, two two teams that, you know, need every game. So, um it should be should be fun. Go ahead, go a turnover by one of their veteran players and you are in front of the net. What were what was I knows fast, but what were you thinking like, oh my I was excited. Yeah, I mean you uh don’t get those chances all the time where um you know, it kind of just pops to you and you get a get a bway. So, um, yeah, kind of just an unlucky play, uh, on their part and, um, I was able to, you know, be lucky enough to to get that chance and, uh, put it in. Do you find that you play better when you’re, I guess, when you have those emotions or do you just, I guess, feel that competitive edge? Uh, yeah, I think everyone does a little. I think, uh, every game you got to find it and, um, you know, try to try to bring that out. So, um, you know, I think, you know, there’s no more motivation in one game than another. Um, but obviously it’s fun when when we’re on to it and you know we have a comeback like that and emotions are running high. Nice to see Ryan Green starting to finish a few. He’s had a lot of chances and he’s had some go recently. Yeah, he’s been playing unbelievable. Uh, I was talking to him and he’s always open. You know, he’s always in a spot where, you know, one of us can find him and and he can get a look. And he’s got an unbelievable shot. He’s been hitting posts and sticks and everything you can hit and um, you know, you keep getting those looks, they’re going to go in. So, uh, he’s been such a great great player for us and he’s just going to keep getting better. So, um, obviously good to see someone like that, you know, succeed. You guys know Peter, I mean, from his time here and you know that he’s battled some groin and core core injuries and he seemed to have it sorted out here um, while he was here and then, you know, he leaves with something that from the core it looks like and then you’ve got a cold goalie coming in. Was that another chance maybe have you guys lick your chops a little bit given the momentum you had? Um, no. No, I mean, first off, obviously we hope Peter’s okay and uh some, you know, who we’re all, you know, thinking about right now and um you know, hopefully he can come back and um you know, keep keep playing his game. He’s obviously a great goalie. We were lucky to, you know, have him for the last couple years and um but I think we’re still going to play the same game. I mean, it’s it’s not easy. I mean, but we know it’s not easy for a goalie coming in in the third and we wanted to be aggressive on it and uh obviously not much time left in the game. So, we were able to get the one. Um, and then they started pressing obviously, so we didn’t get too many shots, but you just want to stay aggressive and and, you know, make them make saves. You obviously don’t want to start in a three hole, but is it any any extra importance to win in the fashion you guys did today? Um, I don’t know if it’s extra important. You know, like you said, that’s not something we want to get used to or um, a standard for us. It’s not not good enough in the first. Um, but you know, we we know there’s no quitting here and um, you know, we believe we can come back at any time and and win any game. So, uh, it’s good to see that and and and good to have that response from from the whole group. Do you do you know McNavish pretty well? Yeah, we’re pretty close actually. So, um, but that’s that’s who he is. You know, I think he’s someone that always wants to compete. Um, you know, I, you know, was roommates with him. on the same team as him for a couple years and every everything we do he’s trying to make it a competition and uh such a great player, such a you know good competitor. So he’s a fun guy to play against and um obviously fun to go out go at it with. I’ll probably go say hi to him right now and um but you know it’s fun fun to play guys like that. All right, there he is. Connor Baddard after his four-point performance against Anaheim. Uh he’s getting to go with the media too, man. Like Yeah, for sure. Yeah, I he he’s good. Is that on purpose? Yeah, for sure. Obviously. Maybe your Kevin Kinsky impression. Yeah. Yeah. That’s good. See, he’s not just uh he’s not just handsome. He’s not just set dressing. Not just a hat rack. That’s right. That’s right. Um now, I mean, look, outstanding game from him. And uh I think there’s a We’ll see what happens when uh Feno returns if he keeps the A on his jersey, but I see no reason to remove it. Yeah. I mean, he’s definitely getting that that leadership quality. I know people thought, you know, right off the bat, oh, you’re going to make him captain just because, right? Um, and you know, even after that first year, uh, you didn’t have the captaincy, uh, you thought maybe that in year two you’d give it to him. And but I think he’s definitely showing uh he’s always led by example, even more so now because he’s starting to do so many of those little things that that wasn’t part of his game his first couple years. Uh you know, getting getting in on back checks and and and finishing checks and, you know, being the last one out of the zone instead of the first one out of the zone. Um all those little things. He’s learning how to he’s he’s bought into Jeff Blashel, you know, saying like winning habits lead to winning hockey and he’s he’s definitely bought into that and you’re seeing the difference. But yeah, there just you’re spot on with but better in the he knows what to say now like and he’s got more confidence. He also feels more he’s just he’s just more comfortable overall and I think he feels less guarded. And I think when you think about I mean the first couple year like well honestly the first year here was crazy everywhere he went there was a huge throng of people and then even before he pulls on a Hawk sweater for the first time it’s up to the draft at the draft after the draft it’s just Bard constantly I I’ll never forget that first game in Pittsburgh where they shove us into basically a closet. Yeah. And there’s 300 people in there. He’s just like good thing there wasn’t a fire marshal in the building cuz they got shut that level and I just to think he went through not that level it’s NHL debut but a bit anytime he visited somewhere in Canada it was just a throng of people to see him and now that’s died down a little bit he’s found his own game he’s found his own voice um I now I think that all of these things it’s not just and I don’t want to take away from it the work he did this summer is a huge part of it but I think just easing into the NHL life. And we’ve seen he’s not always the last guy off the ice. He is sometimes, but he’s not always. And it’s not just non-stop hockey for him. It feels like he is kind of adjusted to the everyday NHL grind. This is something Nick Felino talked to us about when he was doing appearances with us is, hey, look, we love that he wants to be great and then he wants to play hockey hockey hockey 24/7, but you got to pace yourself. You’re going to run out of gas. It feels like Bard has sort of figured out the NHL life, figured out how to for his own mental health and physical health, pace himself, and we have seen the arrival of the generational player is here. And boy, you’re looking at what he’s doing now at 20. Think about when he’s 23 or 24. Yeah. What this kid is going to be doing, it is unreal. because I think we’re I don’t want to say just scratching the surface. It’s maybe overselling a little bit because he’s on a hundred some point pace, but this is going to be a standard counterard season it feels like. Well, I mean, we we talked about it a lot the last two seasons about how how player people thought he was, you know, oh, he’s a bust. He’s not as good as people said he was. And and he still had great numbers his first two years. He still put up, you know, over 60 points each of his games when you and we when you compare it, you know, we compared it to Jack Hughes, it took Jack Hughes to year three to become that star player. Jack Hughes had nowhere near the amount of points Connor Bard did in the first two. What did what did what they say Nathan McKinnon last year, didn’t he say something where he’s like, I wish I had his I wish I had his points when I was his age and now look at what Nathan McKinnon’s doing now. So Jack Hughes as a rookie, played 61 games, had 21 points. It’s That’s not great. Second year, 56 games, 31. Yeah. Than his third year, he had less points in his first two years than Bard had in his rookie season, right? And then his third year, he took the leap. Granted, the team got better around him, which we’re seeing here, too. He had Yeah. 56 and 49. And then his really only healthy season, uh, 99 points in 78 games. Yeah. And so, you know, that was a a more of a a career trajectory for him. But, you know, I think it’s the biggest difference with Baddard this year is his comfort level of being a star in the NHL. Yeah. He’s comfortable on the ice. He’s more comfortable off the ice. He, you know, he it nothing is new to him at this point. Like, he’s used to all this stuff. He’s used to the tension. Um, you know, I think also having some of these, you know, other young guys here playing with him helps a lot. Yeah. You know, he’s established relationships with some of these guys through development camps and training camps. But now that they’re here, you know, him and Nazar are buddies all season long. You know, Oliver Moore is is part of that. all those guys like that makes a difference too where you’re not just like you have your own you have your contemporaries in the room as opposed to guys that you’re like oh that’s a guy that won a Stanley Cup and a heart trophy I probably can’t be myself around him I well hey like remember this Alex Blastic we had him on after his rookie year and he said that very thing to us about Kanean Taves and he didn’t mean it as if they were like Jags or not welcoming guys but he said you kind of felt like you had to walk on eggshells cuz you’re playing with these legends Right. And you don’t you don’t really know how to act. And like all due respect to Alec Martinez and Pat Maroon, I think overall they were good additions to the team, but there is a certain shift in the room this year where it belongs to Nazar and Baddard and Doc and even like Oliver Moore has gotten really comfortable. Um they’re the more vocal guys in the room just socially, you know, not saying like, “Hey, let’s go.” We don’t see much of that at all when we’re in there. when we’re in there, they’re pretty guarded in terms of hockey stuff, but just laughing, joking around, talking to each other, it’s those guys are at the center of all of it. And it wasn’t like that over the last few years. It’s there has really been a shift in the uh in the order of the locker room. We saw that towards the end of last season. Yeah. the last month of the year after the trade deadline and when Renzel and Moore got here and a couple other youngsters too uh the youngsters got you know when they recalled Lebanon and Kchinsky came back all of a sudden it was like oh okay this is what it’s going to feel like and you it that room felt different and uh it’s carried over into this year and it’s great it’s great to see it’s it’s a big reason for the success this so far this year all right get your votes in for game puck it looks pretty uh one-sided but hey you never know could happen. Hit the like button. We need uh what 36 more for Noodle Man to be activated. We have belief that you can do it. If the HOS come can come back from a three nothing deficit. We can get to 400 likes easy. Be sure to subscribe too. Before we bring in Mario, a couple guys who we need to mention in this game who we’ve not yet that played really, really well. So stick around back in two minutes on CHO Blackhawks. 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Try for yourself or a loved one. The shades rated five stars by over 300,000 people. All right, we are back on CHL Blackhawks. Uh mentioned we want to talk about a couple guys that had good games. Oliver Moore, that dude had a 60minute game of engagement and speed. I love his game, man. And if he can just start and he I’m confident he will start scoring consistently, that’s another one that you just start going down the list of really good young players on the Hawks. And I wasn’t sure when Oliver Moore got called up if he would stay, if he would stick around this time, but I don’t I don’t foresee him going down. I saw he he did finish a minus two. Um, but just really active in terms of going into corners, winning pucks. Who did you dig that one out for in a third? Nazar. Yeah, it was Nazar who kind of shanked it on the heel or on the toe a little bit. Duffed it, but put a perfect raced into the corner, dug a puck out, put it on the tape, and Nazar just kind of whiffed on it. But man, he is just he plays with a jump. He plays with such an intensity. And I think when we are worried about the finish, a lot of people are saying, “Oh, here comes another Stalberg or Ethanu.” No, this is this kid is engaged all the time. Yeah. And even if he doesn’t become a 50 point scorer, he could be that energy guy in your bottom six with some scoring upside. I love Oliver Moore’s game. I thought he was terrific tonight. Very noticeable and one of the guys who I think was ready from the beginning of this game. For sure. He’s been he’s been uh his speed is a weapon. That’s for sure. Yeah, there there’s no doubt about that. and he is uh that’s going to keep him getting these opportunities and making the most of them. He’s back on uh you know getting more time with uh Nazar again tonight and um you know I’m not super worried about the quote lack of finish. We’ve seen him pot some goals. He had some goals in Rockford. He’s got a couple up here. Um, I think the way he plays the game, he’s the goals are going to find him. Oliver Moore is not going to score a ton of goals off of beautiful wrist shots and slap shots. He’s going to get a lot because he’s he he’ll go to the net and clean up the the, you know, the rebounds, let pucks hit him. Um, you know, he’s he’s going to be just wait till he starts getting some PK time. He’s going to be a he’s going to be a short-handed goal guy. He’s on a 38 point pace now. If he had played 82, he’d be on pace for a 38 point season. Yeah, I mean that wouldn’t be as a rookie. Yeah, that would be fine. Like if he puts up 38 to 40 points, I think everybody would be satisfied with that. But again, it’s, you know, it’s how he got those 40 points that’s more important. It’s not how many points he’s getting, but how he’s getting those points. And you’re seeing why Kyle Davidson was so was trying to trade up to get him at that draft and was so excited about him falling to him at 19. You you’re seeing why because he plays that north south game. Uh and he’s another player that that thinks the game well. He’s not just fat. He you know there that’s what separates him from those guys you mentioned in Victor Stalberg and Andreas Anthony. Those guys didn’t think the game at an elite level. Oliver Moore does Oliver Moore knows how to not only use his speed to his advantage, but he knows where to be at at most times. Is he does is he does he play perfect hockey? No. He’s still very young, but you could see that his high hockey IQ goes along with that elite speed and those things together are going to make him a very effective player. Yeah. In a couple months, he’ll be old enough to buy a beer. That’s how I think about that everybody. That’s how young these people are. It’s crazy. I don’t even remember being that age. Exactly. I don’t remember that either. Mario is standing by. But one more guy I want to mention to you. Levinov had another really solid game. And that Alex Khorn short-handed disaster uh that got waved off. He was out there diving headlong to try to prevent it from happening. His entire team abandoned him, but whatever. That didn’t count. But just the ability to keep the puck in at the blue line, the vision on the power play, the physicality. I feel like he’s got this sneaky level of speed, too, where it looks like he’s out of a play, but he closes gaps really quickly. He is really starting to figure things out. He had a shot on goal tonight that was an absolute bomb, and then uh I think he had four total shot attempts, missed the net a couple times, but man, I I said to you during a game, like, imagine not loving Ardum Leon. Like, he is just so fun to watch. And I think like you say, he’s kind of like sneaky. I think he’s got that sneakiness because he never looks like he’s putting in a full effort. Everything is effortless out there to where you could almost be like if you weren’t sure what you were watching, you can be like, “Oh, he just doesn’t care.” No, he’s just such a smooth skater that he can make up that ground and it doesn’t even look like he’s putting on an extra putting it into like second gear. Uh that’s one of his his, you know, attributes. He’s everything is just so effortless for him out there. Yeah. And imagine when the game slows down for him. Yes. Careful. Imagine. There he is. Noodle man once again trying to assault Greg at every every opportunity. He just put some He just put something in my drink. Chloe, taste this. All right. Uh, with that, we’re going to head out to United Center and bring in Mario Turbosi, who was in the locker room and heard from Jeff Flashel. Thanks everybody for getting us over 400 likes. That is why Noodle Man is active. And if we get to 500, we’ll turn him back on. So, let’s get there by the end of the show. How about a hundred for every Hawk’s goal today? That’d be really nice to get 500 likes. All right, we ready for Mario? Mario, hello. Welcome in. There he is. Mario Terbasi from the UC. Uh, we heard from Conor Bedard. We uh were talking too much to play uh Dickinson or Doc. Um, we were talking about how Conor Baddard has clearly just matured in so many ways. Uh, not just on the ice but off as well and just such a a confident speaker and, uh, we were talking about him maybe keeping the A even after Felino returns. Yeah. Yeah, sure. I’m I’m in favor of that. Um, who you taking it off? Is there a limit? Yeah, you I mean you only have you only have three a captain and two alternates or three alternates at a time. That’s the maximum. You could do the road and home and road thing with the alternates. That’s probably what I would do. Have Conor Murphy and Conor Bard Ro Shambo for it at center ice. There you go. Sure. Sure. Yeah, I think you could do that. That’d be fair. All right. Well, what did uh Big Jay Dick have to say after the game? Um, I mean, the the the message across the board is that you don’t this team doesn’t want to be down three nothing to have to put the effort that they did uh to get the win tonight. You want to be able to avoid those things. But I think the the big takeaway from tonight from from Dickinson to Bedard to Blashel and and across the board is that this this team didn’t uh shy away from the challenge. They didn’t crumble uh when things got down three nothing like they did, you know, like like we said after the first period. The exact same thing happened in the Buffalo game. you know, you get down three nothing, you get the late first period goal, and you’re like, okay, maybe they maybe they settle down a little bit, and then you go on to lose nine to three. Um, this game had all the makings of of going that direction. Uh, but the team showed a lot of resilience. They showed a lot of composure. That was a big talking point with Jeff Blashel tonight is just the whole group, but especially the young players not letting the game uh slip away. Uh, and then when you get Conor Bard playing the the way that he did in in the second and third periods, like this team doesn’t feel out of many games, uh, when when he’s going like that. So, I think the biggest thing from this from this game is the resiliency and not letting the start to the first period, the first 47 seconds, um, dictate how the next 59 minutes were going to go. Yeah, there’s I mean it definitely could have you’re down to 47 seconds in and the the temptation to say well let’s just not get hurt uh definitely has to sink in. But uh I love mentioned earlier that they got that late first period goal which we have seen hurt them so many times this year and giving it up that they get one then they get a power play to start the second and it it feels like that that goal was kind of just the opportunity they needed to go into the room feeling better about things feeling okay you know what we’re two shots away from tying this thing uh and let’s go take care of it. I I I I I just think this team has a lot of character and and that’s something that we know Kyle Davidson um was very focused on when he drafted these guys. He didn’t necessarily always go for just who is the most skilled or whatever. He he always had a focus on character. A lot of these guys are former captains. Um and I think it’s it’s starting to show up even, you know, even in losses. I think you see them fight to the end even when they don’t have their best game. Yeah. I mean, I I I think we’ve we’ve talked as as this fivegame losing streak uh was starting to look like, oo, this might be this might be a problem. Uh that uh is going to be hard to to get over going on these road games. We talked about like the loss of like Nick Felino and that that kind of veteran presence especially you know not only just your captain but the guy that very clearly um you know when when he talks a lot of people uh or a lot of the players you know they’re they’re they’re going to listen and they’re going to you know learn and um you know take take what he says to heart to not have him in those moments you know on the bench when you give up two goals in 47 seconds um you know when you’re when you’re down three nothing you’re going into a into the second period, which is historically this season the worst period the Blackhawks play out of any game. Um, you don’t have him there to kind of deliver anything like it’s kind of forced some of these young players like you mentioned like Bard’s a former captain, Colton Doc’s a former captain, uh, Lannon Slagert was a captain at Notre Dame, uh, Oliver Moore and Sam Renzel were in leadership roles uh, with with Minnesota. uh Frank Nazar was, you know, like all a lot of these guys have been in leadership roles before amongst their peers where they’ve been the ones to kind of have things to say uh at intermissions or be, you know, maybe an older player uh on their junior teams or whatever it is um and be more of that calming voice in those moments. So now you get an opportunity for these guys and we’ve seen it multiple times this season where they’re getting the the ability to do that in the NHL and kind of growing that off ice skill set, being able to kind of let that uh let that grow from this team and and that’s part of again Jeff Blashel talked about it tonight like the young guys and and their composure and their it’s all part of their development and tonight was one of those nights where that was like a a big part of it. You I mean you can you can point to okay the veterans Dickinson, Mckv, Terravine and Donado Murphy like those guys like you want them to still be able to be the ones that lead the charge. But I think what we’re seeing is a lot of these young guys are now going to be the ones kind of leading that charge. And that’s what we’ve talked about this kind of shift in this team shift in the locker room where these young guys are starting to take up more space and the franchise is kind of shifting over. It’s not an overnight thing, but I think this game is something you can point to and say like this is one of those moments that as we look at once this season’s over, that shift of the franchise, like this is this is a game that I think we can point to. You mentioned Blashel talking about the composure of young players. Why don’t we hear that uh piece of video right now? I think it’s part of our growth. You know, I think um it’s not going to be perfect. This isn’t going to be just, you know, just an ascension right right up. it’s going to kind of, you know, have some ups, have some downs. We’ve talked lots about trying to take more steps towards greatness than away. And I thought I think um, you know, our young guys are are are hopefully, you know, the more they’re in these kind of positions, the more you kind of learn from that. And and I thought our guys did a pretty good job of it. And so I thought our the young players included just kind of realize like, let’s let’s just keep playing hockey here. Let’s find a way to keep playing good hockey. I like that. Let’s find a way to keep playing good hockey. That sounds like a hell of an idea. Yeah, I just I like Bashel’s demeanor, too. He just never seems too freaked out about stuff. And in pregame today, when when Kalin asked him about, yeah, you know, you’re kind of on a bit of a streak here. He’s like, you know, like are scoring chances are right there, so I’m not too worried about it. Just I don’t want to say he was dismissive of the losing streak. And I’m sure behind closed doors is a bit of a stronger message to the players, but like there’s no point in him, oh yeah, this is a must-win game and we really got to win it. there’s no need to set that sort of a feel around this team right now. And and look, I think the fact that I think what he’s saying is probably correct, right? Shots on goal, we learned, we’ve been talking about this for weeks, Mario, um like shots have different value. You can’t just go to the shots on goal at the end of a game and say who who is the better team. It doesn’t tell the whole story, but scoring chances does. High danger chances do do. And if if he’s looking at it and saying, “Hey, look, at the end of these games, we’re right there.” Um, and I’m not concerned about it, I think that that kind of rubs off on the players, too, to say, “Okay, like we’ve lost five in a row, but he’s not freaking out and and we like him and we trust him, so let’s just keep going.” I think I think that that lack of concern from him goes a long way. Well, I mean, you look at the look at the numbers tonight. Shots on goal favored the Ducks 25 to 18. scoring chances were 26 24 Blackhawks. High danger chances were 11 to 10 Blackhawks. So again, it’s it’s it’s one of those, you’re right, like it’s one of those things where like this this team can be low in some metrics and then high in others and the ones that they’re high in usually are the ones that translate to to to more success. It’s it’s kind of been this weird trend that we’ve seen this season where, you know, they don’t get a lot of shots on goal, they don’t get a lot of scoring chances, but then when they’re in the high danger chances, their shooting percentage is like 25%. It’s it’s why they’re, you know, considered like, oh, they’re not a good team. they’re just a on a PDO bender and it’s just like okay yeah but also if you have good goalending and you have guys that you know bury chances at the most opportune areas of of of the ice like that that can that can get you some some wins and can get you some success and can get you some momentum. So, um I I again like I I think this was a game that you know the the highs and lows and and I I think we should cuz you brought it up, we should go right to the clip of of Blash talking about it like the highs and the lows of this game could have easily derailed anything the Blackhawks were trying any good that they were trying to do this game. Um but they were able to kind of keep it keep it even keel and that allowed them to uh have their their comeback push. Yeah, you know, I think we do a pretty good job. You know, I think we’ve done a pretty good job of that. Um um you know, we’ve we’ve stayed in it pretty good in some tough moments. We’ve had different tough moments. Uh and I think, you know, for the most part, we stayed pretty levelheaded. And I just think it’s an important piece of what we’re trying to build here is is, you know, not have the big emotional uh highs and lows. You just got to stay with it. And and you know, these games are played 60 minutes for a reason. Um you play 82 for a reason. One game doesn’t make a season. One period doesn’t make a season. you know, a minute of hockey doesn’t make a game, you know, and so let’s just uh let’s just kind of grind through it and keep doing it the right way. Uh there you go. There you have it. By the way, uh all shots are not created equal, as we know. But my guy, shoot it. Shoot the puck. That was um that was insane. That was egregious. Yes, that play in the second period. Um, I mean, my guy that that you it was one-on-one with Peter Morazzic, a guy you spent all season last year shooting up pucks at at practice. You’re down two. You’re you’re facing a goalie with an 881 save percentage. I don’t care if McKay is open on the other side. If you think you got a bad angle, slap shot against the pads and McKay can get the rebound. Like, that pass was bad. And then the McKay pass after that was even worse. That was one of the worst sequences I’ve seen all season. Okay, now they won, so it’s okay. It just had to be acknowledged. I’m sorry. He made up for it with a great pass on the Colton Doc power play goal. I think the groan in the United Center was louder than the anthem at the All-Star game at Chicago Stadium. It was just like, oh, that was just from the three of us. What are you doing, dude? Oh my I I almost said to you Mario like how much you want to bet he doesn’t shoot this because it was such a clear shooting opportunity and it was almost too on the nose. It was too on the nose of a joke so I didn’t even say it to you and sure enough he did not shoot. It’s like the the the worst position for Tavo to be in in a game is streaking down the wing with no option to pass. He’s like, “Oh god, do I have to shoot?” He’ll pass on a shootout. He He should have banked it off He should have banked it off the end boards and then slapped it home with the goalie out of place. He loves that shot. There you go. That’s been his best weapon all season long. So yeah, that was that’s a play where at the time you just want to rip your hair out, but now you look back on it, they win the game and you’re like, “Okay, just don’t ever do that again.” Take the shot. Always take the shot. Yeah. There’s there’s from that area of the ice specifically, that’s not a bad shot ever, so you might as well take it. Yeah. 10 feet from the goalie. Yeah, that’s usually a good Yeah. All right. That’s my That’s my hockey brain at work. That’s that’s what that’s what the die hards pay for. See, that’s that’s a product though of a team when the team is struggling and on a losing streak. They try and and they they get away from playing simple hockey and they try and look for the perfect play and they overthink when things are humming. You just work on your instinct and you just you just shoot. So that was saw it later in the game. I mean the the the Petusi power play goal was because Frank Naser got the puck on a stick and got rid of it immediately. Um well I mean and early on in the game when the Ducks are up two nothing and they’re like there’s a puck at my feet. I’m throwing this the net like I’m I’m not wasting my time. I am shooting and shooting and shoot. And I think you look at the uh the shots on goal differential. There were a couple sequences where like maybe two or three that probably added seven shots at a ducks just cuz they just kept turning and firing. Yeah. Why the hell not? What does it hurt? Anyway, I know you got one more piece of uh video you want to share from Jeff Flash. Why don’t you set this one up? Yeah, I mean obviously the the big uh catalyst in the comeback effort was Connor Baddard and you know he he was he was feisty towards the end of the game. Uh and and Jeff Blau kind of just talked about Bard’s uh competitiveness and you know how how the team feeds off that. uh you know um yeah to be honest with you like I just don’t know any great players that aren’t hyper competitive like he’s he’s he’s hyper competitive and um you know whatever that shows itself different ways and and some you know I don’t think he’s always demonstrative about it and uh um but you know there times where you’re probably going to be demonstrative but but ultimately the best ones are always hyper competitive man and they want to they want to win their shifts they want to win the game they want to win at everything they do And uh he certainly got that trait. Yeah, hyper competitive is a good way to put it. Labowski 55 calls it Bard’s a red ass that too. But even if you watch like just go back with the context of this conversation. Go find some of this Hawk social media videos when they’re doing anything competitive like the what was it the measuring your number in inches or whatever it was. He’s always like come on let me try again. Let me try it again. Or when they had hit 312 on they had to do it on the stopwatch like hit 312 perfectly. He tried to do it five or six times. He doesn’t want to lose anything, right? He just does not want to lo or they had the um where like the little uh the tubes fall and you got to catch them as they fall. The reaction. He kept getting frustrated with the pro. Yeah, the reaction game. He kept getting frustrated with that cuz it wasn’t falling to his liking. Like he is ultra competitive. And uh I dude I I want to get a video review. I feel like he was yelling at the Ducks bench before the puck went in the net on the empty netter. It was close. I feel like he just sent it down and then just immediately turned the no look goal. Just I’m That’s going in. What do you think about that? Get a load of these down here. Well, I mean, you know, you I’m sure that’s exactly how that conversation went. Yeah, you know, that’s probably what he said. Um, you know, you uh you saw it was was between him and him and McTavish uh towards the end of the game. you know, their their jostling in the uh in the faceoff dot and then that was right before the the empty netter and McTavish was either on the ice going off to the bench or or was on the bench, I don’t know. Um but yeah, when when he when Baddard scores that empty netter and he’s and he’s barking at the bench like I think it was at probably at McTavish and then at the end of the game they get into the scuffle after the final final horn and before the game you know I I record Bernard coming off the ice uh because it’s it’s it’s for science and I noticed that you know his new his new thing at the end of warm-ups is he’ll do like a slapshot from the blue line And today he missed it. And then the reason he wasn’t last off of the ice for warm-ups, it was uh Donado. Uh Bard ended up turning around and firing a puck towards the Duck side. And I was like, “Oh, that was weird.” And then I looked and I was like, “Who’d he throw fire that at?” And it was at McTavish. And those guys were, as you heard him say after the the post game, um they got they were I think they were roommates for the Team Canada uh World Juniors 2022, I think is when they were teammates there. Um and he’s, you know, he’s known them known him for for a long time. But like even against someone who’s going to be, you know, someone who is his his buddy and, you know, a lot of these guys know a lot of, you know, the guys that they play against because of, you know, playing in juniors or on national teams or whatever. um even against, you know, someone who you’re you’re buddies with, you’re still going to be ultra competitive, uh and get to the point where you’re like Steve Austin, uh yapping at at, you know, the the bench and, you know, you could see the the juice that that brought to the the rest of the group and, you know, the guys feed off of that. And um you know I just I got I got amped up as much as I’m legally allowed to in the press box seeing Bard um go after that because it’s just it it it feels like a the way that this season has been going that kind of moment feels like a larger you know it has more weight to it because of how Bard has kind of started to grow into him himself and become this superstar, this rock star of the league this season. And that was just one of those moments that you’re like another like highlight reel for year three of Connor Bard. Yeah. I mean, I always want to beat my buddies more than I would want to beat a perfect stranger, someone I didn’t like when when you’re Good show playing. Uh yeah, great show. Yeah. Um you always know how to get me off the rail anyway. Like yeah, you want to beat your buddies more than you want to beat other people. It’s just more fun because then you could talk your smack, right, all you want. Like, so I’m sure that has something to do with it. But yeah, I I agree. I love this version of Connor Bdard where he’s like, I’m going to show you how good I am and then I’m going to tell you, right? I love that. It’s good stuff. All right, man. It’s awesome. I’m I’m thoroughly enjoying it. All right, that’s uh Mario Tbasi for NU. Anything else uh we need to know? Um, no. I think uh I think think we hit it. I’m I’m so glad that we’re not talking about a loss like I thought we would be about uh four and a half hours ago. Yeah, calling that. I’m sorry. Bad math. Three Three and a half hours ago. Yeah, that would have sucked. All right, we’ll talk to you uh tomorrow at 2:30 for our next show. That is Mario Turbosi joining us live from the United Center tomorrow. Yeah, we got a show tomorrow. But we’re off. We had this discussion. I don’t think we’re off tomorrow. Let me check the schedule. We’re going to go to overtime while we check the schedule, by the way. So, if you’re watching us on the fast channels, make sure you’re not watching us on the fast channels anymore. Switch over to all lcgo.com. Tomorrow’s December 1st. We do have a show at 2:30. We are off Wednesday and we are off Friday. For planning purposes, you’re right. All right. Okay. Well, yes, I will see you tomorrow then. Yes, you will. All right. That’s Mario Turbosi. Once again, Friday Night Center, Mario_basi on Twitter. Uh we should knock out some of these super chats before we do though. Yeah. Uh breaking well kind of breaking news. Uh Nicolardis two goals and an assist today as the Reich Rockford Ice Hogs uh are about to beat the Milwaukee Admirals. They’re up three to one. Nicolardis doing the heavy lifting. Um so uh yeah, that’s good too. That that’ll work. Yeah. Why Why are we so blessed? I mean, Roman Canerov leading the KHL first player to 20 goals and then he had so much fun he scored 21 right after that. And Merrick Vanaker is one of the top OHL goal scorers. You’ve got Fondell netted another one the other day. It’s going to be lots of lots of fun to be around this team for the next few years. Yes, lots of fun. Meanwhile, I saw a fire Kyle Davidson Tik Tok today. Cool. That was fun. No puck. All right, super chat time. Let’s go. We got a bunch, so let’s get to them quickly. Uh, Green Eyes for 10 bucks says, “That was an awesome game. Great way to show Blast Shield they can dig in and play.” Yep. I mean, that’s exactly what BL was talking about is messages game’s not over. We got, you know, 59 minutes to get back in this thing. And, uh, they didn’t even need that many. They got they took the lead uh with how much time left or was 10:05 left in the game when the Hawks took the lead? Yeah, beautiful. That’s what you like to see. Uh five bucks from Prison. Mike loves RC Cola. We all do. Uh as deflating as a Seattle loss was and led to a skid. Hopefully this is the opposite to lead to a winning streak. Time to crack open an RC Cola. We love that. Prison Mike. Thank you very much. Uh yeah, you hope that this becomes a catalyst because you’ve got a tough stretch coming up here. You got the Ducks again. You got Vegas back-to-back games, two in a row in LA. Yeah. And then uh the Ducks again who will be mad and looking to, you know, you’ve beat them twice now. And uh it was funny. They were talking on the broadcast that the Ducks only have one overtime loss this season. It was to the Blackhawks. And the Blackhawks only have one overtime win this season. And it was against the Ducks. There you go. So they they kind of own the Ducks. I I wish we played him 14 15 times this season. That’d be fun cuz Hunter Bard would have a million points. It’s just so funny how these rivalries are again syncing up where it’ll be not the Canucks, but it’ll be the Ducks. It’ll be the Sharks and the Hawks like all good at the same time again. That’s kind of cool. Uh but yeah, Vegas, LA, Anaheim, and then the Rangers next Wednesday. That’ll be fun. All right. Uh, next up we have Sam with a $5 super chat and another $10 super chat and says, “What novelty item are they using in the locker room after a win? Haven’t seen the old wrestling belt in a while. PS, always love beating the Ducks being a Hawks fan in Southern California.” I don’t think they have a prop this year, do they? I don’t I don’t think they’ve been doing anything cuz social media would have definitely put it out by now. Yeah, they did. They were doing the chain for a little while. They were doing the belt. Yeah. Tab Bamford asked uh Jeff Flash if he’s g, you know, if he had any uh pressure from the wiener circle. Yeah, I forgot to ask Mario if Blash still had his shirt on when he walked. Yeah, I don’t know if I don’t know if Flashel understood what Tab was asking. I don’t know. He was kind of like, uh, nope. Uh, yeah. No, I don’t know if he got the reference, but uh, as far as we know, Jeff Flash remained. I don’t think they’re handing anything out, but we can definitely find that out. I don’t think they are, though, cuz I’m sure we would have seen something. right now. So, the the this the Blackhawk social media team is is pretty on top of things. So, if there were if they had some fun postgame tradition after a win, they would definitely have gotten it out there, especially now that the Blackhawks are officially in playoff position. Yeah. Especially now that they actually win more than once a month. Yes. Uh and then Matt James, 32, says, “Big comeback win. Those jerseys are fire.” And then in parentheses says, “Must be nice.” I don’t know what that’s referring to, but hopefully you get one of those jerseys someday. Sure, Matt. We appreciate that. From Is that a pound signed? That’s not a dollar sign. So maybe that’s what he’s talking about. Maybe he lives somewhere where it takes Oh, somewhere he can’t get it. Where it takes that 72 months to get something shipped to you. Is that a frunk? Um a rupee. It’s not a dollar. I know that. Not a dollar. Yes. The I I was ready to I was ready to go. I was ready to trash throw those black jerseys in the trash. I I already, you know, was ready to I had I had the tweet ready to go like, “Hey, the Blackhawks have played a lot of bad games in these black jerseys and this one is right there with them, but they found a way.” Black jersey curse be damned. We did not need the curse of the alternates cuz the Winter Classic jerseys last year, I think they won one game in them. But those Yeah. But it’s just like, you know, you put on the black jerseys, all of a sudden you’re playing like it’s 1997. You’re playing You’re playing like James Black. Yeah. Like it’s like yuck. Uh but yes. Awesome. Awesome. Comeback today. That’s that’s the mood right now was not what I was uh expecting. No. I was, you know, 47 seconds into the game. I was like, I don’t really want to do a postgame show today. Yes. And by the way, before we reveal game puck and go to Fred House, shout out to Spencer Knight, too, for keeping them in the game. You know, he gives up too early. Not his fault on either of those. Completely hung out to dry. Um, and just keeps the Hawks in the game. Made a lot of big saves. There was that one and a third that was going just wide of the net that he think he got a piece of with his glove. Even if he didn’t, he was in good position to stop it. Um he was he was very good in in this game and I think that maybe got a little bit lost in the weeds. I saw a couple people I know our buddy Pat mentioned it in the chat uh at some point that Spencer and I played really well. A couple other people he doesn’t get rattled. No, he is as even keel as it gets. He has one speed and one speed only and he never changes and that’s that’s good for a goalie. Um our guy Matt came back and he was the guy that got the Eagles jersey instead of the black jersey. So now that makes sense. Now we got you. Yeah. Yeah. Fanatic sent him an Eagles jersey when he ordered a Frank Nazar jersey. Easy confusion. I mean, they’re in the same bin. I mean, they’re right next to each other. They’re the same color. Easy mistake. Yeah. I just think of the uh Stop hiring colorblind people in your warehouses, fanatics. What’s the South Park episode where they have to keep going back to the uh I’m never going to think of this. The IRS or something. They had to go to this guy’s office. It’s just one guy in an office. I know. He’s in the basement smoking. That’s how I imagine the fanatics shipping department is. It’s like one guy down there just exhausted. All right. Uh we got to go to the Fred House. We ready, Chloe? Is strobe light fired up? Our Fred House on Madison featured player today with two goals and four points is Connor Bard. Connor is also the recipient of our game puck. Big win for Connor Badard game puckwise. Uh what was the final percentage? Do we have that handy? Like 70s something 80 something. 83%. Hot damn. That is a dominant win. All right. So that is Conor Bernard’s fifth game puck. He is behind Spencer Knight with one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Uh and then right behind Baddard, not right behind is Burkovski. I’m sorry. Bertusi with three, Burkovoski and Lefchan with two, and then Green Lafery, Arvin Solder Bloom, Colton Dock, and Lucas Reichel all with one game puck this year. I turned on a noodle man because of the uh Fred House even though we didn’t get 500 likes, but that’s okay. Guess we’ll just go screw ourselves. All right, we’re back Monday. That’s tomorrow. It’s the Margarita Machine is a South Park episode that chat is informing that’s the one you’re thinking. Thank you very much. Um we will be back tomorrow at 2:30. probably maybe doing a mailbag. So, if you’re a diehard, throw your question into the mailbag Discord and we will get to those for you tomorrow. I think we’re going to talk a little bit about Nickel Artists and how far away from the NHL he might be as well. So, you’re going to want to join that show. I know that’s a hot topic. You’re welcome to come. I’m good. All right, fair enough. There you go. Thanks to Khloe and thanks to Joey that rhymes for running the show. We appreciate that very much. again. We’ll talk to you uh Monday at 2:30 right here on the CHGO Blackhawks podcast. [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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The Chicago Blackhawks storm back after the Anaheim Ducks jumped out to a 3–0 lead in the first period, snapping their losing streak in dramatic fashion. Connor Bedard, Colton Dach, Ryan Greene, and Tyler Bertuzzi all found the back of the net as Chicago mounted a relentless comeback. Jeff Blashill’s group delivered one of their most resilient efforts of the season, tightening up defensively and seizing momentum when it mattered most. Jay Zawaski, Mario Tirabassi, and Greg Boysen break down the rally, the turning points, and what this win means moving forward.

0:00 START
2:00 Hawks Snap Losing Streak, Defeat Ducks 5-3
5:40 NOODLE MAN COMETH!
7:00 Bedard owns the Ducks
9:30 Ryan Greene earns it on the first line
19:01 Bedard speaks from the Locker Room
24:01 Should Bedard keep the ‘A’ when Foligno returns?
33:30 Oliver delivers another solid performance
39:22 Mario joins from the UC
42:30 Showing character after getting down early
45:59 Blashill from the Locker Room
1:00:00 Super Chats
1:03:00 Frathouse on Madison and Game Pucks

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