BLACKHAWKS PREGAME: Can Chicago SWEEP the Kings Back-to-Back? | CHGO Blackhawks
The Blackhawks and Kings are back in action tonight in LA. Join us for the pregame show coming up next. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Welcome in to the CHDO Blackhawks pregame show presented by Bet365. Download the Bet365 app. Use our code cho 365 when you sign up. Whatever the moment, it’s never ordinary at bet 365. Thanks for being with us on this Saturday night. I’m Jay Zawaski. That’s Mario Turbosi. Khloe and Sarah are here running the show. Ka, I combined you guys. It’s cuz you were saying LA, so then you wanted to say everything west coasty. Um, yeah. Hawks and Kings again. Just rerack everything we said two days ago and it applies for the most part. Hey, as long as we reck the result, I’m here for it. I’m great, too. Yeah. And we’re going to hear from Jeff Flashel here in a minute. Did not share much about the lineups a um ahead of the game. We did find out that Tavo Terbinan will be sitting after taking a puck in the face. Understandable. Yeah. At least one tooth. Yeah. And uh Spencer Knight will get the starting goal. So, that’s what we know so far. We’re waiting for line rushes. In the meantime, why don’t we hear from the Blackhawks head coach right now? This courtesy of the Chicago Blackhawks. Is Table going to play today? Uh, he will table not play today. Okay. Yeah. With Spencer Knight, he’s been so good at handling the puck this year. There were a couple missed plays that nearly burned you last game, but do you Yeah. Do you think what’s there was he was just maybe not the surface in that aspect. You know, what was going on? Yeah, I just think um one, you know, part of it’s on our on our, you know, whole group to make sure we’re communicating. There’s a couple pucks that I think spawn a little bit on them and sometimes that happens. You’re going to get some of that when uh when you’re a goalie that’s active and playing the puck and as a coach, I’ll I’ll take uh you know, the odd miscue for the the efficiency in which he normally plays it. So, we’ll take those. That’s a give and take. You’re going to not nothing’s ever going to be perfect. There’s always going to be a downside to things. And if that’s the downside, again, if you do it over and over again, that’s different. But we haven’t seen that at all. It just happened to be kind of in a short uh short shortened time period that there was a few uh miscues. A lot of the defenseman have talked about how he’s very vocal for a goalie, too. And we’ll let them know if there’s someone in their blind spot or that sort of thing. Do you see any of that? I know you’re not out there to hear it. You can hear some from the bench for sure. And he’s a real um I think a really smart goalie. He uh you know, he understands kind of the the threats and uh where the threats are and so if he can help our D in that area, it’s great. again, you know, even going back to playing the puck, when you can go back and stop pucks and that, you know, probably uh diminishes the amount of times that defenseman are getting uh getting run over. So, I mean, those are again, we’ll take all that as much as we can. I’m sure one of them’s drawing in today, but for Slagert and uh and Laferdy, it’s hard to be out, but it’s it’s different for a young guy like Slagger to to not be playing, right? Yeah. Yeah, for sure. It’s something we’re cognizant of. Um we don’t want to let them sit uh you know, for long long periods of time. Um you know, whatever that means. and and ultimately um you know he he had a it was unfortunate for him in training camp he missed a lot of training camp because of injuries and so you know it’s just it’s been really hard I think to be able to gain traction and when you you don’t play on a regular basis and when you do play you don’t play very many minutes so it’s something we’ll look at and evaluate as a as a coaching staff and with our management group you guys not going to complain about that he’s happy to be in the NHL but he probably understands that too he he does he does and when we sent him down last time you know as you know I said to him and he understood it was for his the his best good and ultimately um you know maybe something we we’ll I don’t want to predict what happens down the road but we got to make sure we’re cognizant of his playing time for sure. All right, that is Jeff Flashel courtesy of the Chicago Blackhawks and we are still sort of waiting for uh how things are going to shake out, who’s going to play, who’s going to not. But without uh Tavo, it’s going to be probably Landon Slagert, I would imagine. Yeah, I I think he’s been the one that when they’ve had the players who are game time decisions and will make the decision after warm-ups, he’s usually he’s been usually the guy that takes the warm-ups as the extra. Um, so we’ll see. We’ll see in momentarily what what it looks like. But yeah, I mean I I I I would think Slagger is the guy that they’re going to go with if Tavo’s not there. And I I did like what they kind of touched on what what Blashel talked about with you know these guys sitting Slagert and and Laferdy primarily and you know it’s it it’s a tough spot to be in where you were in the NHL but you’re not really doing much. Um you’re not playing you know regularly and when you do play it’s usually like 10 minutes or less. Like it’s a tough uh it’s a tough balance to have. So um we’ll see if if Sagard ends up getting in. Well, we’ve got him now and it does not look like Slagert is in. It will be Sam Laughaferty. It’s uh Baddard with Green and Burkovski, Nazar with Moore and Berusi, Dickinson, Donado, MKV, and then Doc and Lafy are the extra forwards. Then Vlacinov Kaiser Creier, Grizzl Murphy, and Renzel, Spencer Knight getting a starting goal again. So, Laferty draws in. Um I don’t know, maybe the thought there is I don’t know, but him and him and Slagger play the same kind of style, but yeah. Um, Kings are physical. Lafre is physical. So, slagger. I don’t know. I think it’s maybe just we got to get this guy in. Same. Yeah, they’re they’re they’re really the same player aside from a few years of age difference. That’s really the only thing that’s different. But, um, yeah, I mean, fine. I’m I’m I’m fine with either of those guys coming in because I think that’s that’s the thing is we’ve kind of been talking about like the 117 rotation or going to 12 and six the more traditional look like what are they going to do when players come back and all that stuff. Um the the good thing is that with a forwards group, the players and you know defenseman too, but we haven’t been in that position yet. But when a player goes down, you’re not bringing up somebody who you’re clearly like, “Oh, we’re reaching down into the minors to grab a guy and play.” Like the guys that aren’t playing are still NHL caliber guys. So, um, you know, to have Landon Slagard or to have Sam Laughafery come in in these spots, you’re totally fine with it because, you know, those guys can give you 10 minutes, that’s not going to kill you. And maybe Sam Lafery gives you a highlight reel goal. Yeah. Now, you know, Donado probably picks up a significant amount of more ice time than he had been getting over the last few games. And he’s been I think he’s made the best out of his limited time right now. now that he’s going to be on a on a full line with Dickensson and McKay. Um more defensive focus, but that team that line can move the puck. And then, you know, when you when you put the speed of MAV and Donado’s a little faster than Tavo, you put those guys out there together, um you can get some scoring chances there, too. So, it doesn’t feel like a huge drop off. And I know that’s kind of crazy to say, like because Tavo has been really good for the Hawks. I know there’s been moments of frustration where he doesn’t shoot the puck or whatever it might be, but if you read the article earlier this week from Mark Lazarus about Tavo, it’s those little things that he does time and time again that make a huge difference in the game. So, yes, it will certainly be a challenge to play without Tavo. But I feel like this team now is good enough where losing a guy really not named Connor Bard doesn’t feel like the end of the world anymore. Like, oh my god, they’re they’re completely screwed without this guy. Um I don’t know. I I’m I’m expecting another good effort. Um and let’s hope two more points. Yeah. Losing Terravine and and what you want to uh avoid is and and I think what he does like exceptionally well is just the knowing where to be. He’s not the fastest, not the biggest. Um he’s not the most skilled. He’s very skilled, but he’s not the most skilled guy. But knowing where to be um schematically both offensively and defensively makes a huge difference and is you know when you talk about hockey IQ and making the right reads and all that stuff like that’s where Tavo kind of set himself apart from um most other guys in the NHL. So, when you lose a guy like that, you kind of have to think about more um having more of a focus on making sure you’re not losing structure because you don’t have that guy on the ice that if things get scrambly, you can at least rely on them to be like, “All right, I I’m going to know where to be, maybe be able to kind of if things are, you know, getting a lot out of hand defensively, you can usually rely on Tavo being a guy that’s like, oh, he’s in the right spot to either stop a play or slow something down or completely change it in the other direction. So, um that’s just, you know, amongst the forwards group needing to know like, okay, like he’s not there. You you want to be able to keep that uh keep that mindset so that um you know, you don’t we saw in the game on um Thursday uh that, you know, there were some moments where you know, you’re you’re kind of trying to hold back the Kings and their push, especially in that third period, and it did get a little scrambly. So, you want to try and avoid that because, you know, the Kings are going to be pushing this game. They got off to a a slow start in the in the game, first game. Um, they’ve been on, you know, a bit of a gold drought as a team. So, you know, that they’re going to try and come out firing out of the gate. You got to be ready for it. And I’m I kind of like the fact that they’re going with Spencer Knight because in his career, Spencer Knight, five games, he’s 22 and one against the Kings with a 160 goals against and a 952 save percentage. That’s pretty good. And I think you have to take away that Kings game, they had to feel pretty frustrated after that. But because they were peppering the net, they were getting lots of shot attempts. None of them were great or super high quality, but they were getting a puck on net frequently. And he was making save after save after save. And I think there can be a little bit of a oh god, maybe it’ll be Solder Bloom tonight. No, it’s night again. Damn it. All right, here we go again. this guy has just had our number over his career. And I can kind of feel like one of those psychological adv advantages before the puck even drops because I do think even if if Solder Bloom plays really well, which is not completely out of the cards, um it would be a little bit of a mental like, okay, we have to worry about Spencer Knight right now. So Solder Bloom in comparison against the Kings, 371 goals against and an 883 save percentage. Now, if you look at Solder Bloom against the Ducks in five games, a 282 goals against a 913 save percentage. Now, until recently, the Kings were a significantly better team than the Anaheim Ducks. So, take that with a grain of salt. But historically, Sarlam is better against the Ducks. Knight is great against the Kings. And look, like just play the hot hand. He’s he’s ready to go. He said he wants to play 60 games. Fubar Totali asked in a chat, “Are they overworking night?” No, he’s an NHL starter. This is what NHL starters do. He has earned the right to be the A1 guy by being statistically one of the two or three best goalies in a league. So, lean on him. Lean on him. I don’t, you know, it’s not it’s not five out of six, right? It’s three out of four. That’s a little more that’s I don’t think that’s overworking. No. And and I think I think that’s what he wants to do. He’s a young guy. Like it’s not this isn’t like the 10th year of him being a 60 game starter or something like that. like he’s this is his first year being in that in that position and he really wants to prove that he can be that guy and I think you look at how the two have played. Solder Bloom’s been up and down some games but still like I think this is a better version than two seasons ago where we were like you can’t play him. Um but yes, but you had to. Um but then now you got Spencer Knight playing where he’s arguably one of the top five goalies in the league. um has made a case to be in the conversation if not on the team for USA’s Olympic roster. Like that’s a guy that you can roll three of every four games or four or four of every five if if you know if the schedule uh allows you to. Um and you probably feel comfortable with it. So, I’m I’m completely fine with going night here because uh you know then then you you change things up from the from the Ducks game the last time they played and you give Sour Bloom an opportunity and he would have had to play tomorrow night anyway. Yeah. So, you know, is what what’s a what’s what’s a few hours and a bus ride difference for him, you know, and I think too the point you made about like the the mentality for the Kings is like you have to go back and be like we got to try and beat this guy again. Like that’s I think that’s a an advantage that the Hawks could use. 100%. Uh hey, do us a favor. If you’re just getting in here or if you’ve been here all along, hit that like button for us and be sure to subscribe to our YouTube page. Remember, we will be here as soon as the game ends uh tonight for the postgame show. Um beyond this game, there are some stuff we definitely want to get to uh within the next 15 minutes or so because we probably won’t have the opportunity to do it uh for quite a while here. if you missed it. Um, well, before we get Mark Lazarus talked to Kyle Davidson. There’s a lot of good stuff in there, but as it as it uh applies to this game, Frank Sarali earlier today said that there was a lot of trade smoke around Philip Deno. Interesting from the Kings, former Blackhawk, they had to trade him to get Dale Whis and Thomas Flechman. That worked out. I hate that trade still trade. I still hate that trade. But remember, yesterday was the 5-y year anniversary of the Patrick Sharp trade. So, let’s live in that time and think about that. um 20 year four points this year for Philip Denell. That’s uh yeah, that’s what it said. Zero goals, four assists, and this is now uh reaching about 30 games into the season for most teams. That’s that’s pretty rough. That’s pretty rough for a guy who not so long ago was considered one of the best two-way forwards in the game. a guy that could give you 50 points, maybe even up to 60 points, and be a shutdown center. Um, was a big part of the Montreal Canadians for a number of years, big part of the Kings since he got here. Um, it’s I’m not I I have no interest in it as as the Blackhawks for the record. But it is interesting that a team like the Kings that is trying to push uh towards the playoffs again um is looking to to move a guy that you’d imagine would be one of their best centers, but I I think as as you have Kopitar still as your number one, you have Quinton Biffield kind of emerging. Um I don’t know, maybe you you this this might be a player that you move off from to give him a better opportunity or a different opportunity at least. and then the Kings look to open a spot for someone younger to come up and in. Who knows? Um or they they go with somebody new and just kind of do like a lateral move and see if it shakes things up. Yeah. I’m I’m just curious as to what their what is their vision, right? Like it’s because Kobitar is gone. Drew Dowy is 100 years old. Um they just resigned Adrien Kempe to a big long deal. So it doesn’t look like they’re going to rebuild. He’s their big guy. Yeah. you know, so I don’t I just and this can kind of lead us nicely into the Mark Lazarus Kyle Davidson piece because how do you get out of where they are if you’re the if you’re the LA Kings, how do you get from middle of the Western Conference, you know, maybe in the playoffs, maybe not. How do they get to that next level by keeping around Kempe and like Biffield is young? is a guy you’d want around for rebuild, but like I don’t know how far that gets you, especially without Kopitar, without Dowy. I’m trying to look at like who’s in their prospect system. I I know they got Alex Turkot as well, future Blackhawk. We’ve been told that for years. It’s happening this weekend. Yeah. Um Yeah. I mean, it’s Let’s see. you don’t really have a ton of guys that at least in your in your NHL group that you’re like, “Oh, yeah, they’re the future.” Outside of, you know, Biffield, uh, up front and Brent Clark, uh, defensively, like, who’s their who’s their big guy? Liam Greenree, he’s he’s a top prospect, but he’s a wing. Um, yeah, I just they don’t really have a guy that you say is they have the other Jack Hughes. There’s the Yeah, the non the non-g good one. Um, yeah, they just don’t really have a guy that you that you look at and point to and says like that’s the next big thing. At least that I that I can tell from here. Um, so they could be one of those teams that like I don’t know how you how you trade or free agent your way out of needing to start acquiring draft assets and and and young players. Um, so it there’s a couple of those teams that are like on I’d say like the lower end of contender where they’re like, “Yeah, they can make the playoffs, but what more are they going to do?” Yeah, the Kings are not winning a cup this year. Yeah, there’s no shot. I don’t I don’t bank on it at all. Um, so there’s a couple teams like that that it’s just kind of like now with free agency effectively dead, um, what do you do? What do you do to keep your window open? And it’s I don’t envy being in those teams spots for their future outlook. Um because that’s that’s kind of where the Blackhawks were a number of years ago where it was like prospect system is not your uh way out of it and you can’t just spend endless money with a hard cap. So what are you going to do? And for the Hawks, it was be be, you know, once they got swept by Nashville that 2017 playoffs. You were just kind of spinning your wheels until Kyle Davidson took over and was just like, “Okay, we have to restart.” Well, so that’s where, and I don’t want to give away Mark Lazarus’s whole thing. He put the work into it. He did the interview. Check it out at the Athletic. Really good stuff. But Mark kind of started the whole thing by saying, I didn’t know this. Funny story is that when they traded to Brinkit, he was on his way to the rink and he was so pissed about the trade that he sat down in the stairs of a church and hammered out 1,200 words on how pissed he was about the Hawks going full rebuild and how it was like a slap in the face to the fans and all this stuff. and he kind of was setting up for Kyle Davidson to take a victory lap because as we’ve been talking about really since the inception of the show and since Kyle Davidson began this full-blown rebuild. It kind of is the only way back to contention and you’ve got the Hawks in a playoff spot right now. Will they be there at the end of the year? That remains to be seen. the numbers people seem to not think so, but some of the itas people are starting to believe a little bit because Conor Bernard has been so great and you’ve had Berusi having a career year and on and on and on. We we all know what’s happening on the ice. Um and he and Lazarus actually brought up to Davidson like is free agency something you like did you know this was coming? Did you know that it was going to be different and like who’s going to be your HOSA? Who’s going to be your Campbell? And and Davidson said my thought was always build from within. There was always this belief. Everyone calls back to the HOSA signing or Campbell, which I get, but there were rules and a system in place at the time. Marian Hosa wouldn’t be coming as a $5 million player. Under today’s structure, he’d be coming in much higher. Under the current system, that team doesn’t get to keep Duncan Keith on a 13-year deal. Right. Those those ridiculous contracts. Yeah. So, he says it’s a different build, a different model. So, free agency wasn’t anything I was banking on. So, look, I don’t know if Kyle Davidson could have imagined that the Cav was going to explode the way it has and that free agency would go from the best day of the summer, July 1st, everyone’s watching NHL Network or Sports Center, whatever it might be, to completely nothing. Dead. I don’t know if he foresaw that. Do we even do a free agent frenzy show this year? I mean, we have to be an hour. It’s like not worth it. We’ll come on. It’s just going to be another another day in the summer. Yeah, we’ll come on at 12:30 and go off at 1:30 and call it a day or whatever the timing might be. But, um, so I think he saw it coming a little bit. I’m not going to give him so much credit where he’s like, I knew it was going to be this way all along, but I think he had an inkling of that a little bit. Well, I mean, he they they had the the COVID flat cap that pinched a lot of teams. Yeah. And the Hawks weren’t a team that really got pinched with that. So, I think going even predicting like, okay, the the cap is going to go up eventually, like it’s not going to be flat forever. You think, okay, we’ll have some flexibility where other teams won’t. Um, but even still, like I I I really do think Davidson took over the team, realized who was here wasn’t going to be enough to run it back year-over-year and say, “Yeah, we’re a contender.” and realized there’s there’s no help coming from within the system. So, what’s the easier thing to do? Spin your spin your wheels with, you know, De Brinkette and Stro and Hegel and Tas and Kane as they start to go on the other side of their uh other side of the hill in their in their careers or bottom out, start completely over and you start over with your best chance at getting Connor Bdard. I think that was that was the the the vision and the way to go. And if you if you are starting if you’re if you’re saying we have to start fresh or or change things, the best I I think the best way to do it is to have a full system of prospects that you can pick from and choose from either as they’re going to be guys that develop into the the star players we expect them to be or you have so much of them that you can start moving around players and and and picks to add those already good players to to your group because if you try and free agent your way around it, you’re going to be getting guys in their mid to late 20s, early 30s, and it’s not a long-term sustain sustainable path. And I think too, like he talks about this, too, and we’ll get to that in a second, about trading, you know, the prospects you have now for veteran help. Instead of finding a free agent, you go find a guy who’s established and trades and prospects for him. But those guy like we always talk about Kinsky and I don’t want to just keep saying Kchinsky, but it feels like highest prospect they might be willing to move. That’s why we always do it. But I think everyone but Bard maybe Levnov is on the table if the right thing came along. Like if we’re talking about like Quinn Hughes or Jack Hughes or the other Jack Hughes or whoever, you know what I mean? Like whatever it might be. Hughes boys. Yes. like if somebody like that becomes available, I think almost everybody’s on the table aside from 98 and 55. Um, but other teams that are going to want to rebuild are going to want to short they’re not going to have the patience that Davidson had. They’re not going to shortcut it. Also, I think Davidson understood and Danny WZ understood that, hey, we won three cups in the last, you know, decade and we have built up a little bit of trust and a little bit of credibility with our fan base that we believe that if we lay this out to them and we’re honest about what we’re doing, it’s going to be painful, but we feel like this is the best way to do it. I feel like there’s a lot of teams that maybe couldn’t withstand a fullon tear it down rebuild. So teams that are looking to move on from star players. I’m not going to say Phil Deno is one of those anymore, but they’re looking for prospects that are not three, four, five years away or necessarily only draft picks. They’re looking for guys on the cusp of the NHL. And the Hawks have a lot of those guys. And like a guy like I’m not saying they should or will trade Nick Artis, but Nicolis is a guy who you could argue could be in the NHL right now. Yeah. and a team would be like, “That’s a kid who scored 70 goals and junior is lighting up the AHL.” Like, that’d be a great way to kickstart a rebuild and give a veteran player. Again, I’m not advocating it. I’m just using it as an example of look at the pieces the Hawks have to work with here. I mean, just in the forwards group, you have Lardis, Canerov, Fondell, Bu, Spellellisy, you have Vanacker. Yep. You have uh now obviously you still have to figure out what these guys are, but you have Nestrasil and Mason West who are first round picks and Nestrasil is looking really good in college right now. Do you think all of those guys are going to be Blackhawks? I think the percentage chance of that being the case is pretty low. kind of can’t be, right? So, either either somebody who’s playing on the Hawks now as a as a young guy who’s a a top prospect player or one of those guys or two or whatever, they’re probably going to be moved in some way, shape, or form to to, you know, make a make a roster move, make an addition in some way. So, I think the way we kind of talked about the defenseman last year or the year before about, wow, look at all these guys that they have that they could, you know, there’s not going to be enough spots for them. you have that even with being able to play 11 or 12 forwards a night, there’s not just going to be enough spots for them and you still have five picks in the first two rounds this upcoming draft. So there there’s a lot that they they have to work with. And um I think around the league like seeing how the Hawks rebuild has gone, seeing how the Sharks tank and rebuild has gone, seeing how the Ducks tank and rebuild has gone, seeing how the Coyotes/Mammoth have gone since you’ve put a ownership group and a that allows the front office to actually run the hockey team to try and be successful. Um, I think teams might look at though you’re getting more um, evidence that bottoming out the right way. Um, and having patience pays off in in a in a longer term plan. Now, are any of those teams perennial playoff contenders and cup contenders yet? No. But, do they all look like they’re going that direction? Yes, absolutely. So, I I I think you’re going to see that mentality change of we got to bottom out. we got to start over or we got to build through the draft and less of, you know, teams that are, you know, we’ve been contending for 10 years straight. We got to keep going and like the Red Wings. Yeah. Like I think you’re going to see less and less teams like the Red Wings have been over the last few years where it’s just like let’s just free agent our way to the middle like and it’s not going to work. Um, so I just don’t know what that like what the Red Wings are doing even though they’ve had a better year this year. Had a really good start to the year. Does that ultimately end in a Stanley Cup for them? We got to we got to stay focused here and remember Red Wings currently uh three two points out of the playoff spot, but they got to leave their bottom bottom half of or bottom third of the Eastern Conference. The East is so hard to like even the East is so tight that it’s hard to say like one team’s good, one team’s bad, but like even so let’s say Detroit gets in, they get a wild card spot. In what world are the this year’s Detroit Red Wings, even if the rumors come true and they add Quinn Hughes, are they going to win a Stanley Cup? They have as good a chance of adding Quinn Hughes as the Blackhawks do. Yes. And I like I’m not even I’m not even like saying that as like hyperbole. I think I think there’s actually like there’s a if there’s a will there’s a wake when Hughes could be a Blackhawk. Yes. As much as he could be a Red Wing. I don’t know who else has more to potentially deal with, right? A bigger pool to deal from than the Hawks. Especially if Vancouver as we’re talking about teams that need to bottom out. They have no future. What’s their future? Elias Person, does he want to be there anymore than it doesn’t? Yeah, it doesn’t even feel like he wants to be there. Like Yeah. Like their their future is bottoming out. So, how do you bottom out? Picks and prospects. Who has picks and prospects? The Blackhawks. Yep. I mean, it could certainly happen. It is not the most far-fetched idea in the world, but we got to We know he’s going to the Devils, but the Blackhawks have a good good as good a chance of any Devil’s got to figure that out, too. Like, they they’ve they’re up against the cap. Like, that’s not something they can just like easily make happen. They’d have to make some significant moves to make that happen. And I’m not going to pretend to be up on the Devils prospect system, but if they’re rebuilding, they’re not going to take on Douggee Hamilton to make room for Qu, you know what I mean? Like it doesn’t help them in any way. So, we’ll see how it goes. Quinn Hughes is going to get moved this year. It certainly feels like so keeping we’ll keep an eye on it, but stay focused. The goal is to win Stanley Cups, not just get into playoffs, not just win a round or two. You want to be the team that is in there like Edmonton, like Dallas, like uh Colorado should be. like those teams, that’s where you want to be where every year you can make an argument that they can win a Stanley Cup. Not like, well, you know, if everything goes perfectly and if you’re Detroit, if John Gibson returns to his all-star form and Patrick Kane finds a fountain of youth and Alex scores 50 and yada yada yada, maybe, just maybe, they can win a cup. Like, no, no, you you can’t all bank on being this the 2018 St. Louis Blues. That is not a plan for success. Yeah, that’s what makes that team an outlier. I love how Khloe reacted like it was a shock that the Avalanche and the Did they win that conversation? They played the Probably they played the Rangers. They won in overtime. Are you surprised? They took it overtime to beat the Rangers. Yeah. What a bunch of bombs losers. We have one super chat we got to get to before the show’s over. That ends Avalanche Corner. Thanks. Uh SRM Scott says, “Swap thoughts on swapping green and Tavo or Bert or Swapping Green and Tavo or Bertusi?” Um I think you somewhat in the lineup. Yeah, like to put green down, put Tavo or Bertusi up with Bard or Burkovski. Um I don’t think you need to because it’s been working. So I think the Nazar line was really good the other night too. Yeah, if you keep more with Nazar and Bertusi like that’s that’s working. And then I I did like the Dickinson McKay of Tavo group. I I feel like we’re in a spot where the forward groups are fine. I don’t think you need to tinker too much. Yeah. Uh, by the way, someone mentioned you wouldn’t trade all these prospects for one and a half years of J of Quinn Hughes. Any sort of deal where you’re trading those sort of assets would have to come with an agreement that a long-term deal will be struck. And from what Kyle Davidson said in his interview with Mark Lazarus, he’s not giving up things like that for rental. Exactly. Almost verbatim said that. So if if he was to swing on a Quinn Hughes deal, it’s some sort of trade with a extension attached to it either under the table or in the offseason. If it should get to that point, it would come with a extension. And Labowski says, “You’d have to gut your entire farm system to get Hughes.” Never underestimate the stupidity of the Vancouver Conucks. No, you wouldn’t. Put that on a t-shirt, pal. The Blackhawks farm system is fully is is a is a full gut. is a crop. It’s a full gut. All right. It’s a big one. My co your my my culture is not your costume, Mario. All right. We’re going to wrap up the show. We will be back after the Hawks beat the Kings. We’ll talk to you then on the CHL Blackhawks postgame show presented by Bed 365. [Music] [Applause] [Music]
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