Chicago Blackhawks (28-37-14, 70 pts) vs St. Louis Blues (33-33-12, 78 pts)
4 pm CT \u2013 United Center
TV: CHSN (Ball\/Granato)
Radio: WGN 720 AM (Wiedeman\/Konroyd)<\/p>\n
The Chicago Blackhawks and St. Louis Blues will wrap up their four-game season series. The Blackhawks have won two of the first three games, both blowouts. There is some extra motivation today because if the Blackhawks win in regulation, the Blues will be officially out of playoff contention. Getting to end your rival’s season should make you feel good at the end of the day. <\/p>\n
With the Blues\u2019 season on the line, they should come out playing desperate hockey. The Blackhawks need to be ready to match that and not give up another goal in the first minute. After such a dismal result against the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday, we’d better see an extra jump in their step right from the opening draw. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey want to win,\u201d head coach Jeff Blashill said. \u201cNobody does their job perfect every day. We didn\u2019t have a great night last night, but they had a great day today. Let\u2019s see if we can have a great day tomorrow. Sometimes score matters, sometimes the emotion of games, like I thought we were playing decent at the beginning of the season, then we get scored on there, it\u2019s kind of like, whatever, there\u2019s momentum that goes in games. It got away from us, so let\u2019s regroup.<\/p>\n
Change to the Top Line<\/p>\n
Blashill made a couple of changes to his lineup at practice yesterday. Ryan Greene is back on the top line with Connor Bedard and Nick Lardis. Teuvo Teravainen was moved back down to the fourth line. Bedard and Lardis need someone on that line who can win puck battles and keep possession. Greene will do a better job of that than Teravainen. <\/p>\n
Lardis had two prime scoring chances on Thursday but was unable to cash in on either. <\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, the line isn\u2019t producing to the level it had earlier in the season when Burky, Greener, and Bedsy were producing, all at a high level,\u201d Blashill said. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t fall on Lardis, doesn\u2019t fall on Burakovsky, it falls on all of them, that the puck just hasn\u2019t gone in to the level it once did for us, and probably that it\u2019s done for those individuals. <\/p>\n
Certainly, Lard\u2019s a guy you can look at who has scored at levels beneath the NHL on a consistent basis. In the pros, he\u2019ll finish with somewhere around 30 goals as a first-year pro. That\u2019s a really good year. But it\u2019s hard at this level. He didn\u2019t win enough battles. He\u2019s an undersized guy; he\u2019s going to have to win more battles, but I\u2019m leaving him up there and giving him a chance to do it tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Boisvert Finally Makes Home Debut<\/p>\n
After being a healthy scratch for the last two home games, Sacha Boisvert will play in front of the home crowd for the first time tonight. He was reinserted onto the fourth line with Teravainen and Andrew Mangiapane. The Blues have a \u201ctraditional\u201d fourth line of three guys who are physical and play a heavy game. If Boisvert wants to engage in physicality, he will get plenty of chances to do so. <\/p>\n
Through his first six NHL games, in very limited ice time, the 2024 first-round pick has a goal, four shots on goal, 10 shot attempts, six individual scoring chances, and two high-danger chances. He\u2019s had a fight, drawn two penalties while dishing out eight hits. Those are actually decent numbers for a rookie playing under nine minutes a night. <\/p>\n
Hall of Famers Honored<\/p>\n
The Blackhawks inducted their first Hall of Fame class<\/a> on Friday. Glenn Hall, Keith Magnuson, Pierre Pilote, Chris Chelios, Bobby Hull, Denis Savard, Stan Mikita, Tony Esposito, Marian Hossa, Duncan Keith, Steve Larmer, and Troy Murray were the inaugural inductees. They will be honored during today\u2019s game, which should serve as some extra inspiration to this young group. <\/p>\n \u201cToday and tomorrow, those are examples of what it\u2019s like when you win and how important it is and how revered you are,\u201d Blashill said on Friday. \u201cWe\u2019ve had multiple of those this year because it\u2019s the 100th\u00a0anniversary, because Jonathan Toews came back, all those moments have been great. It\u2019s one thing to be a guy who puts up points or whatever; it\u2019s another thing to be a guy who brings winning to a city like this. I think it\u2019s the best sports city in the world, and so when you win here, it\u2019s obviously a pretty neat feeling, talking to all the guys who have done that. I think it\u2019s a great thing.\u201d<\/p>\n Season Series <\/p>\n 10\/15 @ STL, 8-3 W<\/a> Blackhawks Team Leaders<\/p>\n G-Tyler Bertuzzi (32) Blues Team Leaders <\/p>\n G-Robert Thomas (22) Blackhawks Team Stats <\/p>\n GF\/G-2.54 (31st) Blues Team Stats <\/p>\n GF\/G-2.65 (29th) Blackhawks Probable Lines<\/p>\n Forwards<\/p>\n Ryan Greene-Connor Bedard-Nick Lardis Defensemen<\/p>\n Alex Vlasic-San Rinzel Scratched<\/p>\n F-Sam Lafferty, F-Dominic Toninato, F-Landon Slaggert<\/p>\n Injured<\/p>\n F-Oliver Moore (lower body), D-Matt Grzelcyk (upper body), D-Artyom Levshunov (hand)<\/p>\n Blues Probable Lines<\/p>\n Forwards<\/p>\n Dylan Holloway-Robert Thomas-Jimmy Snuggerud Defensemen<\/p>\n Phillip Broberg-Logan Mailloux Scratched<\/p>\n F-Pius Suter, F-Jonathan Drouin, F-Oscar Sundqvist, D-Justin Holl, D-Matthew Kessel<\/p>\n Injured<\/p>\n D-Tory Krug (ankle)<\/p>\n Goaltending Matchup<\/p>\n Spencer Knight (18-24-11, 2.80 GAA, .904 SV%, 3 SO) vs Joel Hofer (21-13-5, 2.58 GAA, .910 SV%, 6 SO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Blackhawks (28-37-14, 70 pts) vs St. Louis Blues (33-33-12, 78 pts)4 pm CT \u2013 United CenterTV: CHSN…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5120],"tags":[71,5,4,534,84,5285,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-550466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-blues","8":"tag-blues","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-st-louis","12":"tag-st-louis-blues","13":"tag-stlouis","14":"tag-stlouisblues"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116387253008417972","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550466","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=550466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
12\/12 @ STL, 2-3 L<\/a>
1\/7 vs STL, 7-3 W<\/a>
4\/11 vs STL<\/p>\n
A-Connor Bedard (42)
P-Bedard (72)
PPG-Bertuzzi (11)
GWG-Bedard (5)
SOG-Bedard (220)
PIM-Louis Crevier (61)<\/p>\n
A-Thomas (36)
P-Thomas (58)
PPG-Dalibor Dvorsky (5)
GWG-Jimmy Snuggerud (7)
SOG-Jordan Kyrou (166)
PIM-Tyler Tucker (81)<\/p>\n
GA\/G-3.27 (25th)
PP%-17.7 (26th)
PK%-84.0 (2nd)
SOG\/G-24.6 (32nd)
SA\/G-30.2 (31st)
FO%-46.0 (31st)
PIM\/G-8:53 (18th)<\/p>\n
GA\/G-3.08 (21st)
PP%-17.4 (28th)
PK%-76.2 (27th)
SOG\/G-25.2 (31st)
SA\/G-27.7 (15th)
FO%-49.3 (19th)
PIM\/G-7:56 (10th)<\/p>\n
Tyler Bertuzzi-Anton Frondell-Ilya Mikheyev
Ryan Donato-Frank Nazar-Andre Burakovsky
Andrew Mangiapane-Sacha Boisvert-Teuvo Teravainen<\/p>\n
Wyatt Kaiser-Louis Crevier
Kevin Korchinski-Ethan Del Mastro<\/p>\n
Otto Stenberg-Dalibor Dvorsky-Jordan Kyrou
Jake Neighbours-Pavel Buchnevich-Jonatan Berggren
Alexey Toropchenko-Jack Finley-Nathan Walker<\/p>\n
Theo Lindstein-Colton Parayko
Cam Fowler-Tyler Tucker<\/p>\n