BLACKHAWKS POSTGAME: Connor McDavid & Oilers Top Blackhawks in OT — Connor Bedard Impresses

BLACKHAWKS POSTGAME: Connor McDavid & Oilers Top Blackhawks in OT — Connor Bedard Impresses

Hawks lose 32 in Edmonton. But man, that was a great game and the Hawks held their own. Let’s break it down next on the CHDL Blackhawks postgame show. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] [Music] Tank win. I’m just kidding. We’re not doing that ever again. Welcome into the CHGO Blackhawks postgame show presented by Bet365. Download the Bet 365 app. Use our code cho365 when you sign up. Whatever the moment, it’s never ordinary at Bet 365. I’m Jay Zawski. That is the mustachioed Mario Turbosi. Sarah Victor is over there. Canada did not have the best day. They had an okay day. People at this Edmonton game, they go home kind of happy. No, they don’t. They’re very unhappy. Kind of happy. They’re going to cry themselves to sleep in her Molson’s. It’s okay. Hey, Hawks lose 3-2 to the Edmonton Oilers. We appreciate you being with us here. Uh just a few minutes short of midnight on the CHL Blackhawks postgame show. Thank you so much. Hit that like button for us. Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube page as well. If you’re listening to us on the podcast a little bit after the show, thank you. Make sure you’re following or subscribed on your favorite app. And how about as a weekend treat, you leave us a fivestar review on Apple Podcast or Spotify. That would be really, really helpful. Much appreciated. Uh look, man, this was a, as we talked about in the pregame, another sort of measuring stick game for the Blackhawks. How are they going to stack up? How are they going to play against a team that’s a Stanley Cup contender? We saw against Winnipeg. Score was lopsided, but the game fell closer than that. Yeah, this one they lose in overtime, which is cheating for the Oilers because they have too many good players. It should not be allowed. Um, in a coin flip, but other than that, the Hawks had the edge in play for the at least the last 40 minutes of this game. Certainly could have won it. And a couple bad stick penalties uh do them in cuz the Oilers, as they always do, power play and overtime merchants for real. Yeah. Um, yeah. Yeah, I mean I I I think you I think you come away from this team from this game and looking at like big picture I think this is the kind of game that you more often than not I think you come away with saying like that that is the kind of effort that will win you games. Yes. Um, but to be done in by the Oilers top power play unit, right, which by the way, join a club is Brian Nad Hopkins. Uh, Jack Rosavik. Yeah. Like Jack Rosik, right? Off season like signed the last day of the offseason. All off seasonason we’re like why is no one signing Jack Rosik? He knew. And then he has to wait all the way to October and then oh hoham I’m just gonna be on the top power play with McDavid and Dryidle must be rough. Um but you got uh Nent Hopkins, Rosik, Bousard, McDavid, Dryidle. Come on. Like that’s how the best teams in the league have trouble with that on on the on the power play. So you’re done in by that unit twice and then you get McDavid Bousard Drive Cidle in overtime. Like good luck. Good luck to you. But other than literally those two power plays and the way that the game ended in overtime, Hawks had the advantage. Hawks through for the entirety of the game were, you know, they were controlling more of the game. Early on it was it was more Oilers, but they kind of they found the momentum. the Oilers really kind of found a a little pocket of domination. Yeah, but they they were saw last year. They were able to find that momentum that the the the power play goal from Berusi about midway through the second period is really the like spike in the turning point. Um and then they they had really good stretches of controlled play in the offensive zone. Um you know, I I really liked Ryan Green’s game was really great. Andre Burkovski like he’s been fantastic. So good. Uh not only in this game but you know just just in this so far to start this season he’s been really good. Um Ardam Lechnov had a really good game. Connor Baddard was feeling it. Spencer Knight had a had a solid game in net. Like you know the OT winners a tough tough a tough play to to to make on the you know first and second efforts. Um but all around like I’m I’m not upset with the game. It stinks to not come away with a win. Of course, in a game that you played like that, but like I mean that’s that’s just one of those games where you just kind of like tip your hat to be like, “Oh, you have two of the four or five best players in the planet. Good for you.” Yeah. I mean, it’s I what I liked about this game is every time we had those moments, we’re like, “Oh god, here we go.” Oh. Oh, it shift someone would make a play to get the Hawks out of trouble. It was Wyatt Kaiser. I think uh Alex Vlic had a really solid game defensively. I think you already mentioned Arm Lechinov had a really good game. Um just controlling the puck m even you you had a play by Louis Krevier short-handed that sprung Iliam McKay on a short-handed breakaway. You’re having guys that are not even against the best and fastest and most dominant offensive players on the planet and McDavid and Dry Cidle. They don’t look overmatched. They don’t look overwhelmed. You don’t see them panic. They know and they believe that they can hang with these guys now. And yeah, at some point do we want to see like is are the moral victories going to start to get old and feel old? 100%. Yes, but they will. The schedule’s been tough. They’ve been playing really hard teams. It’s about to get a little bit easier. You’ve got uh Seattle you next. Then you’ve got Vancouver, a revenge game there. Calgary who’s really struggled this year. And then Detroit who started the season really strong and has kind of come back to earth a little bit. Like you you’ve got some a chance here in this road trip to pick up some wins. You’ve already got one point. Again, I I don’t I’m not here for moral victories, but as we said going into the season, it’s how do these games look? Don’t worry about the point total. Don’t worry about the standings. How do the games look? And you can go pretty much every game they’ve played this year, they’ve e either been right in it and the game that I think they looked the worst in, they won three to one against Utah, right? Yeah. I I I think you you look at the way that this game went. They were down one- nothing, fought back and tied it. Down 2-1, fought back and tied it. Like it’s it’s good to see the resilience of the team and not to just kind of fall back and say, “Okay, it’s the Oilers. We don’t really have a chance to come, you know, come back.” Like, they were in it. They were they were right in it. They found their they found their ways to to get the get a chance to win the game, right? finding finding that path and and and being able to follow it is is is a big step forward uh for this group from the last you know few seasons and and I think you come away from this game it’s as much as it is a loss it’s a momentum builder especially coming off of the Winnipeg game where you know even even that game the 6-3 score doesn’t feel as lopsided as the actual play was not ominous yeah this is this was uh another step at least to look at this as the if to isolate this road trip on its own away from the rest of the season. You start the Winnipeg game. This game is a step above what that was. And and as you mentioned, like I think the next couple of games, you’re going to find a little bit more of evenly matched. If not, you might feel a little favored in some of those games. Yeah. And I just what I really love too is just the compete this team has. And they’re never giving up on a play. They’re always backchecking. Um they’re, you know, plays that seem dead. you’ll see guys kind of like lay out to try to break up a zone exit or they’re kind of doing this like whatever it takes to win thing. And is that sustainable? I don’t know. I think it is because you you’ve kind of built a team of guys like that and you’ve sort of drafted players like that that that’s what Kyle Davidson’s focus has been. And the one guy who maybe would have been a concern in that regard over the last couple years would be Conor Bard where it sort of felt like through his freshman and sophomore years that it was going to be okay well he’ll just be like the onedimensional offensive guy and lead the team in scoring and you’ll live with the defensive lapses that he brings. Yeah. This year has been totally different. We have seen him back check several times breaking up plays. today. He was he was very dependable in the defensive zone, trying to lift sticks, trying to win board battles, trying to play as physically as he can. Uh I I love the way he’s playing. Got another assist today. Um, there’s just so much to feel good about with this team. And I feel like if it keeps going this way and they keep building and you get more development from Renzel, more development from Levinov, you know, Green gets more comfortable, whatever it might be, or at some point you bring up more, you bring up Lardis, whatever it might be, you’re going to start winning some of these moral victory games, right? Yeah. And this game, they had a scoring chance in overtime. Steuart Skinner stopped it. Spencer Knight made the initial stop on Buchard and he just poked in a rebound. That’s it. That’s the difference in the game. It’s it’s it’s a game of inches. There’s that other chance, too. Is that the first period where Baddard had the uh kind of waited for a screen, pulled back, and then shot a wrist shot that Steuart Skinner gloves through a screen. Like there were so many moments like that. Bard hit a post. Nazar hit a post. You could make the same argument that Dry Settle scored with 0.001 left on the clock. Yeah. but it had it had expired. But like they’re right there with the teams everyone believes when the smoke clears after 82 games are going to be competing for the Stanley Cup. Yeah. And that that to me is regardless of the outcome massively encouraging about the direction of this organization. Yeah. I think it’s I think it’s night in and night out you’re starting to anticipate the type of effort you’re going to you’re going to see. I think now we’ve got 12 games sample size of of how they’ve started this season and I I don’t think you really have to wonder all that much about like what is this team going to look like. I think we’re starting to get a sense of like this is how they’re going to compete. This is how they’re going to play. This is who’s who’s going to be effective in in what scenarios. I mean I McKay is continues to deserve praise for his penalty killing efforts. um you know Bedard and Nazar and being able to you know generate offense. Bertusi and Terrainan are are you know great complimentary options. Bertusi on the power play is like he’s just becoming it’s so it’s so funny. It’s just like with Bertusi these just very random unique skills that he that he has of just like okay he’s on the power play. What makes him effective? Well he becomes basically a basketball backboard. put his foot down with the stick there. Just just make your body like uh something to bounce a puck off of. Like it’s just it’s just a very unique thing. But it’s something that gives the the Blackhawks an edge and and I think you’re starting to kind of just see those guys start to find their little niches and their little spots that make them really effective when when called upon. And and I think that that’s that’s evident of a group that’s starting to find find their way. And and you know, we mentioned Burikovski, like I I I think coming in to this season and you know, looking at okay, well, what what can he do? Well, here’s what he’s done in the last two seasons, Seattle. Not great. Can he be the guy that he was in Colorado? And I mean, I think early on I the returns on that trade are going really well. I I didn’t see Joe Valeno in the press box with the I don’t think Joe Valeno would be doing what Andre Burkovsky has been able to do. So, I think um that’s that that’s been working out and and defensively like you know Sam Renzelle still having some moments of uh you know those those rookie moments. Yeah. But he’s starting to kind of feel a little bit more you know predictable. Ardam Levino is getting a little bit better. Um Wyatt Kaiser had some good moments. Like I I think there’s still those things that you pick out and say like this is what this team is and you’re starting to kind of cement some of those early like, oh, you know, is this unsustainable? You know, what’s what’s what can you expect out of this team? I think you’re starting to, at least for me, I’m starting to feel like I know what I’m going to get out of some of these guys. I think that’s that’s a big thing for this group. We got to nominate our game punk nominees. You’ll get those votes in. But before we do, someone in chat mentioned like they’re finally closing the shots on goal gap. And that’s fine. That’s one thing. But beyond shots on goal, cuz a lot of times shots on goal, like, hey, we’re down late, so we’re just going to throw everything on. They’re not high quality shots on goal. The Hawks had a 9 to5 high danger scoring chance advantage in this game. You mentioned it earlier, scoring chances for were 25 24 in flavor of the Oilers. Like those are kind of like the granular when you look a little deeper sort of things. Expected goals the Hawks were 2.52 at five on five. At five on five. Yeah. Like and in comparison to the Oilers who are 1.86. That’s the sort of stuff aside from just shots on goal or even shot attempts those tell a limited story. But when you start to look at the quality of the chances the Hawks are generating, that’s really when you start to see, you never saw that last year. Never were they significantly ahead in expected goals or high danger chances. Sometimes they’d outshooter. They’d be, you know, oh, hey, better game today. Their their rating was 45 instead of 30, which we saw sometimes. Right now, they’re winning these battles. They’re getting high danger chances. They’re right there in scoring chances with again the most electric offense in the NHL. We got to hit the break zone. We come back, we’re going to give you our nominees for game pucks. I know we got to get some super chats as well. And we’re keeping an eye on uh the postgame video from uh Jeff Flash and others. We’ll bring that to you before we’re done tonight on a CHO Blackhawks podcast presented by Bet 365. Whatever the sport, the app to bet is Circa Sports Illinois. Circus Sports is sports betting the way it should be. Circus Sports Illinois has all the things you’re looking for in a sports betting app. It’s got high betting limits, low holds, and the best customer service around. You’ve got an issue, Circus Sports Illinois is going to solve it. You can bet on all your favorite teams in every game this season. We’ve got the Chicago football team versus the team from Cincinnati. Woo! Should be a barn burner. Should be. Yes. I’m looking forward to it. Going to be great. Yes. 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Individual chances for was six, individual scoring chances four, individual high danger chances three. and he did score a goal and was all over the ice. Um, big game for Burkovski. I He just looks so confident with the puck. It’s crazy. Um, actually, someone tweeted me the other day a comp that I’ll run by you later in the show. Remind me to do that. I’m going to go with Arnum Lechnov on this one and I, you know, was he the best Hawk tonight? No. But I love the growth I’m seeing from him and this is kind of a collective over the last handful of games reward for him. um just really starting to come into his own. That hesitation we were seeing from him early in the season where he’d kind of get stuck between decisions, that is happening far less frequently. He is starting I think when you see him using his body, using his physicality, that starts to show you how good he’s feeling about things. Uh in this game, had an assist 1417 of ice time, a shot, another shot attempt, and four block shots. uh that led the team that Hawks only had 17 block shots. That’s crazy. It seems like more than that, but anyway, block shots are always done by some old man in the booth who’s probably half distracted today watching a watching the World Series. Yeah. Yeah. As everybody was. I mean, it’s kind of hard to imagine, but just another game of solid play from Lef Shaw. And for the second game in a row, I have seen him uh especially on a power play, like with the stick way up in the air, like I’m ready. I’m ready to shoot. Throw me the puck. Like he’s just starting to get okay. Shaking off the early season stuff, getting used to the system, getting used to the coaches, and starting to come into his own a little bit. Uh tonight was his fifth assist on the season. So good. He is he is having a solid start statistically. I believe he’s a plus six on the year. Uh that might have actually he was on the ice for overtime so that would be a so I think he’s still plus five but he’s having a he’s having a much better run here. So, uh, this is a last three games cumulative nomination for game pucks. And that’s Well, that’s good. Like, you want players like him, like all these young players just you don’t have to be the best guy on the ice each night. Like, just keep stacking good performances cuz that builds your your base layer of like expectations and what you know, these guys can start believing that they can do at the NHL level because they they put it on film. they they go out there and and they have these performances, it just builds more of that belief of like, okay, here’s what I can do. Here’s what I need to work on. Here’s what’s working for me. Here’s what I can lean on. You know, positive tendencies and and those those winning habits that Jeff Blashel has been preaching. Um, those are things that they can build and lean on and start to feel like they’re more natural in their game. Um, and it just builds their confidence. All right, let’s get to these super chats. Thank you so much for sending them. Um AJ Ju, I’m not sure how to say that, so I’ll just say that. Says, “Oilers are supposed to win it all this year. The Hawks dominated them at five on five. The team should be really proud of their effort today. Arty is a stud. That’s $5.” Uh thank you for that. Yeah, we’re just sort of talking about Lavinov there. Um but yeah, I mean that’s it. Like they were the There’s no qu whatever stat you want to pull, go ahead and pull it. The Hawks had the edge in play at five on five significantly. So if they if they play this game with penalties turned off, um they win. Yeah. And Wart’s case scenario says uh overtime was shorter than a Warts press conference, but we got there without divine intervention. That’s basically a parade. Break out the Malort. There you go. Sure. By the way, if you missed it couple weeks ago, had a nice half hour sitdown with Danny Wartz. Talked about myriad topics. So, uh, we haven’t had a myriad in a while. He will talk. He He will chat with you. Yeah, he’s not afraid to, uh, Yeah. not afraid to talk. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. I’m I I am still encouraged. I’m still encouraged by this kind of effort. Um, and as we said, like you you you put this kind of effort against twothirds of the league, and I think you come away with a positive outcome. So, I’m I’m I’m encouraged by that. Not something we said very often last year. And I think that that we’re still in I think we’re we’re still in this mindset of just baby stepping things. Yeah. After after what we’ve seen the last few seasons. Um but you but you I still feel encouraged off of the start that they had. That’s like, wow, that’s above expectations. And even games like the last two, you’re like kind of still above expectations. And it’s even though it’s, you know, games that you don’t come out on the winning side of, like still like the the the effort and the performance is above what we’ve seen. Like they’re kind of crossing that they’re they’re they’re raising that bar of of what you should expect from this group. And like that’s positive. I’m I’m still feeling and I feel like in the chat it’s pretty reflective of that as well. Like even though it’s a loss, it was a good game. Yeah. And as the super chatter said, like they got to overtime without some sort of miracle and that’s that’s it. And if anything, the miracle was for the Oilers to get to overtime because the Hawks had such an edge in play in the third period. So yeah, like it’s it’s just very it just is a very different feel around everything this year. And uh yeah, I mean getting that extra point tonight would have felt magnificent. We probably would have had twice as many people watching us live. By the way, it’s past midnight. We already what we have like 350 people watching. That’s amazing. 364. That’s great. Uh, but a lot of you have not hit that like button. So, make sure you do that. Uh, it helps us move up the rankings and get hockey higher up on the YouTube algorithms. We need your help there. So, hit that like button for us. some interesting uh comments coming out from Spencer Knight and Jeff Blashel regarding the baseball game being broadcast at the ex at the same time on the Jumbotron at the uh the Rogers Center. Rogers Center, Rogers Place, whatever it is. Rogers something. Uh Spencer Knight says he had no idea the Dodgers had won the World Series. Uh based on the crowd reaction in the sec, this is from Ben Pope by the way. based on the crowd reaction in the second period. He assumed the Blue Jays had won. Quote, “It was around the it was around the net and everyone was quiet. Then all of a sudden, everyone started to freak out freak out. I almost jumped a little bit and was like, what the f was going on?” And then I had to remind myself, “Oh yeah, World Series.” Uh Jeff Blashel on the game being distracting from Mark Lazarus says, “Was the game distracting?” Blah. Oh yeah, it was. I couldn’t help but look either. The crowd went nuts and I was trying to figure out what was going on. So, it was a weird interesting moment. He said the Hawks did not request the game to be taken off the jumbotron in the third period. I don’t know if that was rumored or not, but No, I I mean, you know, watching on TV. Sure. We all I mean, we also had the other screen here in the office on the World Series game. So, whenever something happened in the World Series game, we would see it and then we would hear like two seconds later the reaction from the Edmonton crowd of what was happening. either positive or negative. So, I got to imagine, and Ben Pope tweeted about it um during the game, too, that that has just got to be one of the weirdest environments to be in. Yeah. As a player or even just as a fan where you’re like I can’t imagine like a a a Blue Jays fan and a Oilers fan going to that game and like staring up at the screen like watching the baseball game while the hockeyy’s happening down here and just being like, “Oh, snap.” Like McDav is on the ice. Oh, wait. they just tied the game. Like it’s just got to be a surreal weird experience. And then as the players like re trying to react to what the crowd’s doing, it’s just like you don’t know what’s happening. Then you have to look up and you’re on the bench and you’re in the middle of a professional hockey game and then the World Series game seven is right above you. I am a little surprised that they let it be on during play. Um but it is game seven of a World Series. You got an entire nation in Canada, you know, cheering for the Blue Jays. So, I I understand that. And look, I’m it doesn’t sound like that’s what the Hawks are doing, making an excuse about it and saying, “Oh, it cost us a game.” No, they’re not. It’s just commenting on the Oilers had to deal with the same thing. Like, it affected them the same exact way. But, yeah, it was it was very strange to I don’t know. I don’t know how you could like It’s like Blashel said, I don’t know how you could not occasionally just look, yeah, of course. What’s going on up there when you see the crowd react? Because I mean some players get distracted even just during a regular season game when nothing else is happening, right? Like cams on or whatever it might be. Yeah. Um so yeah, when it’s something like that and you know everyone in the crowd is reacting to it, um just got to Yeah, it’s just got to be weird. Um Supen2F says, “Is Nazar raising Baddard’s play? It seems like he’s given everyone a ton of confidence.” Well, I think I don’t want to short sell the work that Conor Bard put in this summer. He clearly made a commitment to improving his overall game, improving his speed, and it is showing on the ice. But I’ll say this about Nazar. What Nazar does is it gives the opponent someone else to worry about, someone else to be aware of on the ice. So, they have to kind of pick their poison to say, “All right, are we going to def are we going to put our top defenders on Baddard or our top defenders on Nazar?” And I still think most nights those teams are going to say we got to try to stop Connor Baddard because that’s the sort of guy that can tear this game open on his own. So fine. And then Frank Nazar’s line gets less of a matchup which could explain a little bit why the Tavo line and the Bertusi line and the Nazar line has been producing so well because they’re not having to take top matchups all the time. And they didn’t really have to do it last year either. But it wasn’t quite as Nazar wasn’t quite the name he’s become after his hot start after the big contract this summer. People are starting to and of course the world championships where he led team USA in scoring as they won the gold medal. He is starting to demand attention and just the attention he’s demanding is freeing up opportunities for Conor Bard. There’s no doubt about it. Like I think a lot of people want to see Nazar with Bard. And look, maybe late in the game, like you saw Dryside and McDavid together, maybe that’s something Bashel considers as the season goes on. Hey, the game’s tied. We’re down one. Let’s get these two on the ice together. They play on the power play, too. Yeah, the power play of course. But I’m I’m saying it even strength. But right now, it’s working. Both guys are having success. Both guys are producing. Both lines are producing. I’m not messing with anything in that regard right now. No. I mean, when when is the last time the Blackhawks had their top two lines be something you had to worry about? It’s been a while. 20 16 that far. I’ll give him an extra year. No, I don’t know. It hasn’t been that long, but yeah, I mean, it’s been a while. Um, so I think it’s it’s it’s it’s working keeping them on on different lines and and you want them both to be successful at centers. I think that that’s probably the Blackhawks’ best case scenario is that both Baddard and Nazar are long-term centers. Um so giving them the opportunity to do that on their own um is I I think is the right path at least for right now. Um and then yeah like you know Jonathan Taes and Patrick Kane didn’t play their entire careers on the same line, right? like they would do it, you know, early on in their career they did, uh, but then they got split up and it was more of, you know, the quoteunquote nuclear option to go to them on the same line when you really needed to get offense going. But I don’t think we’re at that point now with Nazar and Bard where it’s just like nothing’s happening offensively for the Hawks. So, put your, you know, load up your top line and just go at it. Like I think the I think it’s it’s working. It’s it’s spreading out what, as you said, it’s spreading out what teams have to have to deal with. And for the first two seasons that Conor Bard was here, he didn’t have that. Yeah. And he’s got to be loving that, too. I’d imagine. So, because to draw the toughest matchup night after night after night has to take it out of you. It has to. All right. Break zone time. One more time. Final break of the show. We still have the Fred House on Madison to get to. We’re going to reveal our game puck winners. So, get your votes in. And we still hope to hear from Jeff Blash and perhaps a couple Hawks uh as the postgame show rolls on. So stick around, hit that like button back and two on CHCL Blackhawks presented by Bet 365. 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All right, and we are back. 27 more minutes to go on the postgame show. We’ve got 300. How many, Sarah? 300. 365. We have gained one viewer since last time we checked. Look at that. See? And we’re presented by bet 365. See that? Why do we not have 365 likes, Sarah? Make it make sense. I was going to say the same thing. I mean, what are we doing? Just hit that like button for us. Let’s get that number. Where are we at? I cannot see cuz Matt broke the TV. 188. Oh, we can get to 200 easy. Yeah, if we get to 200, do we get to see your mustache pictures? Oh, we already get to see my mustache. If you want to know why Mario’s face looks the way it does, uh, he was born that way. But the mustache can’t do anything about that. Why don’t we Let’s Let’s plug it on this show. We did it on a pregame. Sure. Let’s plug it. Uh, it is November. Well, now it’s November 2nd. Uh, in real time, we made it. But but it’s November uh which is sometimes known as Movevember which is when men usually will uh sport mustaches. Anyone can do it. And sometimes they do it just for fun. Sometimes they do it for fundraising. Uh I’m doing it for fundraising uh to support uh men’s mental health initiatives and resources uh prostate cancer and testicular cancer awareness and resources as well as uh uh suiciderevention uh resources as well uh through movember.com. Uh the spiel I gave on the pregame show, I’ll give it here. Every one of us knows somebody or has been directly impacted uh by all those things whether it’s uh you know me mental health uh struggles or issues um people who have gone through battles of of cancer um you know I’m someone who values my mental health being in a in a in a good spot as much as possible. I I go to therapy. Um therapy is the best day of the week. It’s Yeah, it’s a good one. Um, you know, my I’ve had family members that have gone through uh having prostate cancer and um so it’s just something that I wanted to do, felt compelled to do. Um, so I am uh fundraising through movember.com. Uh, if you feel so inclined, uh, you can go there, throw a couple bucks uh, on my page. That would be awesome. Uh or you can start your own and grow your own mustache and help uh the efforts to uh benefit uh men’s health and uh resources. And uh yeah, I I it’s it’s it’s different. I couldn’t go all the way only mustache because I’ve had my my beard for 13 years and I didn’t want to say goodbye to it completely. Um but yeah, it’s it’s taking some getting used to. As my wife said this morning when I got out of the bathroom, she’s like, “Oh, this is it’s different.” I mean, she hasn’t seen my clean shaven face for 13 years. So, it’s it’s been a while. Yeah. Well, you know, it’s working. It’s working. It’s growing on me for sure. Yeah. Good. Get used to it. It’s going to look like this for a whole month. Yeah. There we go. Maybe longer. So, yeah, we we already raised what over 100 bucks. Uh we not we Mario has already raised over a hundred bucks. So, uh that’s awesome stuff. Yeah. Donate, chip in. I will not be doing that because if I shave a mustache again, I have been told in no uncertain terms that my wife will leave me. Three strikes and you’re out. And there you made a little montage there, huh, Sarah? There. Go ahead. Just get it over with. There are my uh mustache photos shirtless in both. I like the one on the left. I think the longer stash suits you better. All right. The shorter stash does not. So the one on the left, you also have two different poses you’re going with in these. Yes, one is significantly older than the other. The one with the Hulk Hogan style mustache, I was doing that to motivate my softball team and I was calling myself coach shooter and I wore like high socks and I wore short shorter shorts than normal. Um, and then inevitably when you do something silly in a baseball game or a softball game, somebody gets hurt. So, you’re dealing with an injury with some sort of ridiculous. I remember one year the girls like painted like mustaches like with eye black. Oh, and a girl got hurt in her and we’re all out there and painted mustaches and it was like look how ridiculous we all look right now is this girl is like got a broken leg so it’s it’s rough. So I I try to steer away from coach shooter but we might have to pull them out for the tournament tomorrow. We’ll see. Maybe we’ll see. Maybe. All right. Is it time to enter the frat house? We got a lot of time left. But let’s do it. We’re talking about mustaches. We might as well go to the frat house. Right. That’s right. Let’s see. This music legitimately ruins. All right, the fret house on Madison to honor all the youths on the Blackhawks today. We are profiling Ryan Green who had an assist plus one 1733 of ice time. A shot on goal. Uh only one of five from the dot, but that doesn’t matter. Uh really really kind of fitting in nicely. What I like about Ryan Green is you’ve got these like dynamic highskll fast skating um you know Bard obviously is all over the place kind of just weaving through traffic finding his thing. Burkovski has gotten that way as he’s got more comfortable too. Ryan Green provides that offensive stability where he’s going to make more often than not a safe play. The puck’s going to be on the tape of Vadard Burkovski to make something happen. He’s a really smart hockey player. Understands the game, understands where to be, and also has a little more ability than I think we gave him credit for. Cerebral is the word that Jeff Blashel has used to describe him. Yeah. I mean, I I think he’s he’s filling in nicely on that on that top line. As we talk about like guys finding their roles and finding their spots, I think with that trio, you’re kind of letting Baddard and Burkovski drive a lot, but you still want to be a guy who can be reliable in the right spots offensively. Um there were a few plays tonight, you know, where he’s, you know, backing and and stripping pucks and and causing disruptions in transition for the Oilers. So, he he adds that uh element to that top line. And I mean, talk about a guy going from you’re going to Rockford, no wait, come back. You’re going to play in Chicago, then you’re going to play, you know, bottom six, fourth line, you’re going to be in that rotation, and then you work your way up, and you get some time to play on the third line when Dickinson’s out, and then another injury allows you to play on the top line. You get power play opportunities on the second unit. Like, this Ryan Green feels like found money for the Blackhawks right now. like to to to get the performance that he’s had through the first 12 games uh for a guy who’s a rookie who was expected to be in Rockford like it’s gone it couldn’t be going better to start the season for for Ryan Green and and that’s as you said I think the offensive abilities he has is a little bit underrated but he doesn’t really have to at least so far hasn’t been asked to tap into that it hasn’t been hey Ryan Green go out there and be a you point per game guy like no he’s he’s playing within the system he’s playing within the player that is going to make him successful at the NHL level and they’re not asking him to do anything above that which I think is is really smart of this group and when you look across the board like these these guys are kind of fitting in the right ways like no one’s having to do too much that they’re not expected to or not able to everyone’s being able to handle their assignments right now which is which is great and Ryan Green is really uh run with the opportunity. Uh 57th overall, second round pick in 2022, just turned 22 uh what, 11 days ago. Um I’m really curious to see where his offensive game goes. Uh because like we said, that’s not a guy who you thought when drafted, when developed, when watching him play at Boston didn’t project as a big scorer in the NHL. And I still don’t think he will be, but there’s a little more there than I thought. just the the ability to put the puck on the tape and the ability to like which game was it where he had the like it was kind of a part might have been against the Jets. It was like kind of a partial break. He did kind of like a like a knuckle ball breakaway shot. Like it was it was a really nice scoring and he instead of just I think a lot of young players will either stick handle themselves out of position to shoot or they’ll just try to rip it as hard as they can like he was definitely trying to put some finesse on the shot that for a a player that young with only 13 NHL games under his belt to have that kind of poise and confidence. There was a moment this game too in the third where it looked like McDavid was going to get into the offensive zone from a neutral zone and Ryan Green was able to tie him up and fight him off the puck. He’s just confident and his beach picnic joy says Green is as cool as a cucumber. Yeah, he is like he’s just nothing phases him. He is. And for a guy again 13 games into his career, that’s it’s super encouraging and maybe ultimately in two three years he ends up being a catalyst and leader in Rockford, but I’m not I’m not writing him off as an NHL player. I’m really not because he’s held his own. When they put him on the top line, I was kind of I don’t know. I you know, you saw him be okay on the bottom six to start the year, but he’s fit in beautifully. Is it a coincidence that that line has looked so good when he was added to that wing? Maybe. I don’t think so, though. No, I I I think it’s I think it’s the right the right mix of of who you want to um be playing with with uh Bardarden Bowski because you had Donado up there um initially and Ryan Green has I would say similar similar uh traits defensively as as I would say Donado. not the offensive pop right now or probably won’t but doesn’t have what B Donado can bring offensively right now but I would say the the role of being like a guy that you can trust to go and get pucks trust to be in the right spot like Donado is able to do that Green’s able to do that so you kind of get a similar profile uh on one end of the ice in a guy like Ryan Green but you’re not getting that offensive jump but it still I think it still works um and and consistency with him I think was the name of the game in college. Uh 30 over 30 points in all three of his seasons at Boston University. He was named a captain in his final season. He’s, you know, topline center. He was top power play, penalty kill, like did really everything. And I think he does have that kind of well-rounded game where he can he can be one of those players that can play all over your lineup and do different things that you’re asking him to. It’s just you don’t want to give him all of that right away in his rookie season, but what he’s been given so far, he’s been been able to handle. Oh, we should also mention too, Spencer Knight, uh, good bounceback game, stopped 27 of 30 Oiler shots. Uh, allowed three, had an expected goals against of 3.03. So 03 goal save above expected. There you go. Um, but it was good to see. I’m glad they went back to him after a tough night against the Jets. Uh, and he was solid. You know, I don’t know. I I don’t remember any crazy, you know, uh, highlight reel saves necessarily, but just very solid, very steady in the net and gave this team a chance to win when in that first period things started getting away from them a little bit. Yeah, you always want to be able to have a goalender back there that when things get a little little shaky, you can at least rely on him to make the saves that you need him to in those big moments. And I think Knight was able to do that for the most part uh in this game. And yeah, I mean, he’s he’s very clearly the go-to guy for this group. Um I know that Jeff Blashel always likes to credit Arvin Solder Bloom for also playing well this season, but I mean I think it’s very clear we’re going to see Spencer Knight at this pace. He’s going to play at least 60 games. Yeah. Like what’s this is this was what start number eight for him out of 12. Yeah. Like that’s that’s a starter. Like that is a that is a full-fledged starter in this league. And and he’s playing up to it right now. Every game that he’s played aside from the Jets game. You say he was there to give them a chance to win? 100%. He’s he’s earned the opportunity to be the starter. I think he was a guy who in Florida was very happy to be part of a winning organization, but you could tell just by the way he handled himself when he came here, how he handled the off season, and the way he talks about it. He was chomping at the bit for his opportunity to become a full-time starter in the NHL. Um, I think he’s very pleased to be here at the three-year extension shows his level of commitment to staying here, improving it. Um, I’m really excited about his future. Like it’s another one where as we’re thinking about, you know, the Seth Jones trade potentially happening last year. I don’t know if a goalie was on the radar for anybody. No. And not me. And I heard that like, oh, okay, Spencer Knight, that gives him a shot to maybe this is just the guy going forward and a first. Yes. He was awesome last year and has continued and so he’s been terrific and I’m really glad to see much like this team when they have a bad period or they have a bad game they’ve bounced back. Spencer Knight now doing the same thing. Yeah. Yeah. I’m I’m I feel confident anytime Spencer Knight is back there. Uh so I have to imagine the team is confident too. of all the uh comments over the last two postgame shows about my physical appearance. Uh only two. Daniel Daniel Holland uh comparing me to George Peros. That made me laugh. Thank you, Daniel. That’s appreciated. Okay. Uh and no, for all those wondering, I am not stoned. I’ve never been stoned. I just have a tired looking face. Is this my face? How my face looks, sir? Detroititers where literally dealt with that my entire life. There’s an episode of Detroititers where Malcolm Jal Warner is like, “Your eyes just look so sad.” And Tim Robinson’s like, “It’s how my face is. It’s how my skull looks. It’s so funny.” Yeah. That’s just that’s that’s just it. Yeah. What were you gonna say, Sarah? I Well, I get scared to ask these questions on this show, but it’s it’s after dark. Let’s do it. 12:40 in the morning. Who is George Peros? Okay. George Peros is a former NHL enforcer who is the current director of I believe so. Is he still the director of player safety? Yes. Which is like I thought I missed that cuz this would be like giving out uh What’s your favorite sport? Baseball. Okay. To watch to watch. Let’s do football. Let’s do basketball. Football. Let’s do basketball. It’d be like giving Dennis Rodman the role or Bill Lambir. You’re probably Dennis Rodman the role of like you’re in charge of the safety of the league. It’s like what? No, that’s the worst choice ever. I know. kind of he worked for him to break all the rules. I But yeah, it’s just like why would you pick a guy who is famous for not following the rules? There’s George Perosent that’s all I had though. He is he he’s also the one of the founders of Valentine the uh hockey hockey brand. Yeah. Um, yeah. Giving a guy whose job it was was to spread CTE uh across the league. Yes. To say, “No, now you’re in charge of safety is uh I mean that’s an NHL thing.” It is 100%. Yes. Um earlier I I mentioned tweeted me a comp to Andre Burkovski, Martin Havl. Uh, now Havl in my mind stands out as a little more skilled. He I would say so like maybe a little more high-end of a player. Yeah. But when you look at the numbers, his career best was 0809 with the Hawks. Mhm. He had 77 points in 81 games. Pretty good. Um, his first year with the Hawks, he had 57 points in 56 games. So over point per game. Mhm. So, a higher level producer. It’s also worth pointing out that in his years with the Hawks from 2006 to to 2009, scoring in this league was nowhere close to what it is now. So, 77 points in 089 is probably like 90 points now. Yes. But I think I would say Havlat is a little more or I’m sorry, Burkovski is a little more willing to get to the harder areas. A little more of an interior player where I was a bit of a perimeter guy was kind of well he was injuryprone. So was Burkovski. But I think that in terms of like I don’t know in terms of the offensive impact I I see the similarities but I think have what I think when healthy was a better player than Burkovski. I just thought it was interesting though it did make it did get me thinking about that a little bit like huh and maybe the thought is more of like is Burkovski like Martin Havat? Could he fill the role of Martin Havlet on this team of building that bridge until the elite winger, however they join, uh joins Conor Bernard someday like he filled the gap to Hosa. Yeah. Well, uh you got this year and next for Burkovski. Yeah. So, yes, he could placehold a guy that you pair with Conor Bard and say like you’re a skilled enough guy to play on a topline spot. Um, and then by the end of next season, are you banking that Fondelle or Moore or whoever they draft this year? whoever like, you know, maybe Canerov comes over, maybe Fondell comes over and is the number two center and then Frank Nazar goes on the wing or something like Yeah, I think you could you could do a lot worse than this version that we’ve seen so far through 12 games of Andre Burikovski. And he has seasons in his past of, you know, pretty decent production. And I know it’s a few seasons ago, but 61 points when he was with the the Avalanche uh in in that 2122 season. So I think, you know, there I I don’t and I’m not going to say that it’s that’s one that’s a one for one comp, but it’s it’s it can be similar in the purpose that it serves. Yeah. Uh by the way, Martin Havl’s 77 points in 2008 2009. uh top 25 in the league. Uh three players topped 100 points that season. Without looking, can you name the three or at least guess? For the Hawks or for the league? For the for the league. Oh boy. Um 2008 2009, three players topped 100 points. Crosby. Yep. Ovuchkin. Yep. Malin. Yep. There you go. Uh last season 202425 one two three four five six players topped 100 points. Uh and 77 points would have gotten you [Music] 31st in the league in scoring. All right. That’s not as big of a So what you say it was 20 What was it? 25th for 20 uh was 2. 22nd. Okay. 22nd. That’s not as big of a drop as I thought it would be, but there there was there definitely was a bell curve of Oh, yeah. Of point. Well, yes. This way bell curve of where points, you know, you would have multiple guys having 100 points, goal scoring was really high and then it was like that early 2010s to mid2010s. I’ll I still cannot get over that. Jamie Ben Jamie Ben in 2015 won the scoring title with 87 points. That is that’s so weird in the modern day to to to see that. That was 20145 I think. Right. I think that’s right. Look that up. That feels accurate. It was It was either 20 Yeah. 2014 15 Jamie Ben had 87 points and that was that led the league. What’s funny like you think like in an 82 game season like Jonathan Taz was considered one of the best players of his era. His career high was 81 points. Yeah, that was uh the 1819. He’s he was never a point per game player in his entire career. That’s crazy. I mean and yeah, he did a lot of other things but actually wait in 20123 he had 48 points in 47 games. So that would be the year that was the the short the shortened year. Yeah. Um, but it’s just I’m glad that the offense and part of it is I think the league is more talented now than it’s been probably since I started watching in the mid ‘9s. The golden era. Like it this is a I do believe that see it’s hard for me to call it a golden era because I feel like the golden era people were really watching it. Yeah. Like mid early 90s people were locked in on hockey. I don’t think that’s the case. But in terms of the talent in the league, for as watered down as we’re fearful it’s it is or will become with so many damn teams, you’ve got some really high-end talent and some teams with a lot of really high-end talented players. Look at the Oilers. Look at where we think the Hawks are going to be in a couple years. Look at where the Sharks are going to be in a couple years. Look at the Dallas Stars. Like there’s a lot of teams with a lot of really good players. So this is a very, very healthy time for the NHL. And part of I mean when you look at the cap going up as high as it’s going that represents that that people are starting to catch on to how good these teams are and and and how good these players are. So yeah, it’s good. I I hope that it really can kind of break through. I I had hoped that the ESPN deal would have helped a little more in terms of like hockey at the forefront of the sport. It’s never going to beat football. You got to have a network that prioritizes it. Yeah. Well, we’ll see. Yeah, I mean, now that uh baseball’s over um and you know, Well, it’s football season. I Well, yeah, I know. But like it’s just one one less thing in the way of hockey. And then when football ends, it’ll be basketball and hockey. And I do feel like when hockey seasons around and games are on, like if it’s the game of the week on ESPN, Scott Vanpel will usually lead the show with that game. Mhm. So that’s something. But how like how is Sports Center still like appointment TV for people? I don’t think so. Like when I was in college, it’s like Sports Center’s on. Boom. We’re watching Sports Center. It’s It’s really not. So I maybe there’s just really no way to do that anymore. You just hope that you’re your the teams in the big markets are competitive and more people start watching and the sport grows that way. You hope. Well, and yeah, you also just you just you have to highlight the you just have to highlight the league better. If I if if I if I’m speaking from an ESPN perspective, there was a a night a few weeks ago or a few days ago where you had like you had OT winner. I I got to go back and find it exactly, but there was a night where you had I think it was a like a CBrini OT winner. Um it wasn’t the Bard hat-trick night, but you had I think it was maybe the night that um F. Anyways, my point was going to be there were a lot of like really cool Yeah. moments and plays and and exciting game exciting mo uh OTA winners, exciting moments, exciting games. And the one thing that the ESPN account like tweeted out was a fight between Matt Rempy and Ryan Reeves and it’s just like like here’s an opportunity as the rights holder as ESPN to put up something like really like wow draws you in five amazing things. here’s here’s some here’s some sweet plays and it was just like oh here’s the two biggest dudes punching each other okay like I that serves a portion of the hockey fan base like all right whatever I I just I don’t know I just I just think there’s I don’t know I we don’t have enough time for me to coherently air don’t worry if you have YouTube TV you no longer have ESPN so you don’t have to worry about it uh here’s one thing I wanted to do mention though between two the 20134 and the 2017 18 season, there were six instances of a player scoring 100 points or more. That’s it. Between one, two, three, four, five seasons, only six instances. McDavid did it twice. Sydney Crosby, Kane, uh, Patrick Kane, Nikita Cooerov, and Claudu earned two points. There you go. So, all right, two super chats to get to before we wrap up. Test my tickles says, “I have $20 for your enjoyment.” Thank you. Yeah. And Eddie says, “Hello from Seattle. I’m a Kraken season ticket holder, but a Chicago transplant and a Hawks fan first. Looking forward to seeing this version of the Hawks Monday night. Don’t let me down, guys.” Yes, it’ be nice to get back in the win column against the Kraken who are off to a decent start. They are. I think we looked at them and said, “Oh, like what are they?” Well, they’re are even with the Hawks as far as record goes. So, should be a fun game. Game puck winner is Who’s the winner, Sarah? Burkoski. Andre Burkovski. I was like, don’t even. There you go. Yeah, just like it’s spelled. Just like it’s spelled. Yeah. Burkovski. Burkoski. Just like Zoski. Everyone struggles with my name. Looks like it’s spelled. He won by uh 68% of the votes. Almost nice. Almost nice. Yeah. I got to enter it into the log. No one’s going to catch Spencer Knight, I don’t think, but we’re close. Knight has six game pucks. Bard has two. Lucas Reichel has one. Colton Doc has one and Andre Burkoski has one. All right, there you go. And that shuts the chapter on tonight’s Hawks postgame show. Let’s go home. Thanks for being here. Thanks for hitting a like. We will talk to you Monday before and after Hawks and Kraken right here on the CHGO Blackhawks podcast presented by Bet 365. [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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Connor Bedard and the Chicago Blackhawks put together a strong effort, but Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers took the win in overtime. André Burakovsky, Frank Nazar, Ryan Donato, and Spencer Knight all had solid games, showcasing why the Hawks are dangerous on the road. The CHGO Blackhawks team breaks down Bedard’s standout performance, key plays from Burakovsky and the supporting cast, and McDavid’s OT heroics. Watch the full postgame breakdown for expert analysis, player highlights, and everything Blackhawks fans need after this hard-fought OT loss.

00:00 Start
01:30 First reactions
08:30 Moral victory
19:00 Artyom Levshunov & André Burakovsky
24:00 World Series game
27:00 Frank Nazar & Connor Bedard
37:30 Ryan Greene
44:00 Spencer Knight
49:00 Martin Havlát & André Burakovsky

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