Game Thread 1/82: at Panthers 5pm Eastern

[Metalhead]

Let’s see how this goes. Just for hot takes / crab-a$$ing during the game.
Start time is for broadcast.

Scott Powers‬

Blackhawks lineup in warmups
Donato-Bedard-Burakovsky
Teräväinen-Nazar-Bertuzzi
Dach-Dickinson-Mikheyev
Foligno-Greene-Lafferty

Grzelcyk-Rinzel
Kaiser-Levshunov
Del Mastro-Murphy

Knight
Söderblom

[Metalhead]

No line surprises.

[Metalhead]

Just got messaged and agreed to an early evening trail run.
I’ll be back for the 3rd period lol.

🤘

[Breagbag]

What a phantom call on Levshunov. Wow.

[Mr Ricochet]

Breagbag wrote:

What a phantom call on Levshunov. Wow.

You ain’t lying. Tough enough assignment to go play the champs on the road in the season opener as a really young club make calls like this hurt. Hey, it happens but it ain’t like Artie is not gonna give the refs 5-6 chances a game to call him on a reach foul. Then the poor kid is schooled by The Rat as he skates into Lev’s stick and draws a trip. …….. Rough period for Rinzel and The Cossack. Florida is the worst matchup for these two kids. They exploit and expose every damn thing.

Nice play by Nazar’s line to score but Bedard’s line was by far their best in the period. Like the look of the kid. ….. Outshot 17-3 in the period but for 10 minutes it was competitive. …. Still can not believe Knight is a Hawk!!

[Mr Ricochet]

Metalhead wrote:

Just got messaged and agreed to an early evening trail run.
I’ll be back for the 3rd period lol.

Trail run??? Who you goin jogging with, Farrah Fawcett? ….

[Metalhead]

Mr Ricochet wrote:

Trail run??? Who you goin jogging with, Farrah Fawcett?

🤣
Nah, just my peeps from the running club.
I suck at evening runs and need more practice.
Does not help that both tonight were 15+ years younger than me.

[Metalhead]

Breagbag wrote:

What a phantom call on Levshunov. Wow.

I didn’t see it, but based on watching preseason, and the comment from Rico,
Arty gives refs a ton of chances to make ticky-tack calls against him.

[bhawk1s]

Good compete from Hawks in first 2 periods on opening night, they think they can win this one.

[Metalhead]

Powers mentioned that Lev looked more comfortable in period 2.

Is that true? Was he less “Golden Retriever Puppy” than usual?

[Mr Ricochet]

After the 1st I was about to post this was the most enjoyable and encouraged I’ve been watching Bedard as a pro. After 2 periods I can say it. That inside out move he pants Jones on showed how lightning quick his hands are. Reminded me of his rookie yr in EDM when both he and McDavid executed the exact same inside out move and to my eye on a couple replays Bedard’s hands were quicker than McD’s. …. Not claiming he has better hands than McD but IMO they’re quicker.

Very nice feed at pace to Dach. Him coming with speed backed the Dman off which allowed for a seam that Bedard anticipated and threaded. ….. Kid really has the look.

Gotta love whatever Blashill did between periods. Outshot 17-3, two young Dmen getting exposed and they come out and hol to FLA to 5-6 SOG….One shot and 14 great saves by Knight away from the group stunning the champs. How nice would that be to start the Blashill era with a win at FLA??

[Metalhead]

Gotta suck it up and find a way to tie it up.

[Mr Ricochet]

Metalhead wrote:

Powers mentioned that Lev looked more comfortable in period 2.

Is that true? Was he less “Golden Retriever Puppy” than usual?

I don’t know it’s so much that Artie did anything special in the 2nd as much as he wasn’t noticeable. But that changed at the 13:00 mark of the 3rd if you’re watching. Bad play comes back for a partial breakaway.

[BetweenTheDots]

Man that 3rd goal against sucks, but good things happen when you go to the net, wish Bertuzzi would of made more of an effort

Man Arty is a liability out there

[TheREALWiz]

Boy, DelMastro is taking his lumps and tangled foots…

[Metalhead]

Mr Ricochet wrote:

But that changed at the 13:00 mark of the 3rd if you’re watching.

Yeah saw that. Got caught flat footed, he made a nice effort to get back though.
He showed a little offense just now.

[Mr Ricochet]

Blashill moved Mikhayev up to L1 and moved Donato down to L3 to start the 3rd and has left it that way. …. Donato didn’t show much in the first two periods.

[BetweenTheDots]

I love how Florida doesn’t care who you are they are going to take time and space away from you and always seem to have two guys attacking the puck carrier

[LAHawk]

Only thing I hated about the game was the final score. Lots of positives to take away.

[Metalhead]

Around 1:45 left, Hawks had clean possession behind their own net.
Any semi-veteran team breaks that out slow so they can pull the goalie.
The Hawks farted around and lost possession.
Growing pains.

[Mr Ricochet]

Sure looks like the play the final 15ish games last yr has carried over, at least for tonight. I’m sure they were clubbed in the fancies but the club competed for 60 minutes and especially after getting swarmed the last 1/2 of the 1st.

Good God, is Weekes an empty suit. Says nothing of value. Nothing.

[CoachFrenchy]

Hey everyone,

First off, I want to apologize for not setting up the recent Game Day Threads — that’s on me. You guys were absolutely right about keeping things cleaner and more organized for each game discussion.

Starting now, I’ll make sure to create a dedicated Blackhawks Game Day Thread (GDT) roughly 12 hours before puck drop. Each one will include lineups, key storylines, stats, and updates, so we can keep everything — from pregame thoughts to postgame reactions — all in one place.

It’ll help us follow the team’s progress through the season and make it easier to look back at how things evolved game by game.

Thanks for the reminder and for keeping the conversations rolling — really appreciate the passion and the consistency from everyone here.

– Coach Frenchy 🏒🔥

[popsghostly]

TheREALWiz wrote:

Boy, DelMastro is taking his lumps and tangled foots…

Totally agree on that one, Wiz. Looking forward to Vlasic coming back or giving Allen a shot.

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