scored his first NHL goal<\/a> against the Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday. That\u2019s now five points in his first five games, the first Hawks rookie to do that since 2015-16 Calder Trophy winner Artemi Panarin.<\/p>\nThe Hawks selected the Sweden native No. 3 in last year\u2019s NHL draft. He\u2019s spent a good chunk of the NHL season playing for Djurg\u00e5rdens IF of the Swedish Hockey League, scoring 28 points (20 goals, eight assists).<\/p>\n
He\u2019s one of four 18-year-olds in SHL history to score 20 goals in a single season, and the first since 1998-99. He joined Tomas Sandstr\u00f6m, Markus N\u00e4slund and Daniel Sedin.<\/p>\n
He scored at the United Center against the Jets, but the Hawks lost that game in overtime. It was Jonathan Toews\u2019 second game in Chicago this season.<\/p>\n
Toews is a surefire Hall of Famer and a bona fide winner who can play with the best of the best. That\u2019s why Blashill will likely keep Frondell at center for the rest of the season, in hopes of the youngster becoming the next winning figure for the Hawks.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you get to a point where you have a guy in Anton who looks like a player who could, similar what you had here with Jonathan Toews, go out and play against the other team\u2019s best and that frees up Connor (Bedard) and (Frank Nazar) to not have to do that, then also produce points, that\u2019s a great asset to have as an organization,\u201d Blashill said. \u201cWill we play with different things as we go? Maybe, but right now we\u2019re going to leave him at center, let him continue to get those reps in the middle and go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Hawks still have prospects like Marek Vanacker and Roman Kantserov. That\u2019s a lot of talent to move around the roster, so it\u2019ll be nice to have the center position figured out prior to the new arrivals.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we can get to a point organizationally of Connor, Frondell (and Nazar) up the middle, you\u2019re in an unbelievable spot,\u201d Blashill said.<\/p>\n
Injury news<\/p>\n
Andrew Mangiapane won\u2019t play in Edmonton on Thursday, but Blashill hopes that he\u2019ll play during the road trip. He\u2019s been out since March 19 with an upper-body injury but skated in a non-contact sweater on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Blashill said that if Oliver Moore were to return, it would be \u201cat the very end\u201d of the season. He was injured in Dallas on March 8 after crashing into the boards. He was seen at practice on Wednesday but wasn\u2019t dressed for ice time.<\/p>\n
Roster news<\/p>\n
The Hawks signed goaltender prospect Adam Gajan to a two-year, entry-level contract ($1,050,000 salary cap hit). He posted career highs in wins (19), save percentage (.908), goals-against-average (2.25) and shutouts (two) at the University of Minnesota-Duluth this season.<\/p>\n
Sacha Boisvert<\/a> will play against the Oilers on Thursday after being a healthy scratch on Tuesday versus the Jets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to Chicago, Anton Frondell. It\u2019s his first time with the team, but he\u2019s playing like he\u2019s been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5115],"tags":[22814,1824,683,521,37,96,5263,508,800,5,3140,3862,4,292,857,9793],"class_list":{"0":"post-536418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-blackhawks","8":"tag-adam-gajan","9":"tag-andrew-mangiapane","10":"tag-anton-frondell","11":"tag-blackhawks","12":"tag-chicago","13":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","14":"tag-chicagoblackhawks","15":"tag-connor-bedard","16":"tag-frank-nazar","17":"tag-hockey","18":"tag-jeff-blashill","19":"tag-jonathan-toews","20":"tag-nhl","21":"tag-nhl-hockey","22":"tag-oliver-moore","23":"tag-tyler-bertuzzi"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116334822671831728","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Chicago Blackhawks’ Ilya Mikheyev celebrates with teammates Sam Rinzel, Anton Frondell, Connor Bedard and Wyatt Kaiser after scoring a goal during the first period of a game Tuesday, March 24, 2026, in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo\/Frank Franklin II)<\/p>\n