Game Thread 10-82 at Chicago vs Ottawa

[CoachFrenchy]

Huge Game for the Blackhawks Before Their Longest Road Trip of the Season

The Chicago Blackhawks face a crucial matchup tonight before heading out on their longest road trip of the season — a six-game stretch away from home. Chicago will look to build momentum after a mixed week and secure two key points before hitting the road.

Tonight’s Lineup

Chicago Blackhawks
Tyler Bertuzzi — Connor Bedard — André Burakovsky
Teuvo Teräväinen — Frank Nazar — Ryan Donato
Landon Slaggert — Jason Dickinson — Nick Foligno
Ryan Greene — Colton Dach

Alex Vlasic — Sam Rinzel
Wyatt Kaiser — Artyom Levshunov
Matt Grzelcyk — Connor Murphy
Louis Crevier

Starting Goalie: Spencer Knight

Note: Tyler Bertuzzi participated in the morning skate and is expected to play tonight.

Ottawa Senators
Nick Cousins — Tim Stützle — Drake Batherson
Ridly Greig — Shane Pinto — David Perron
Michael Amadio — Dylan Cozens — Claude Giroux
Kurtis MacDermid — Lars Eller — Fabian Zetterlund

Jake Sanderson — Artem Zub
Thomas Chabot — Nick Jensen
Tyler Kleven — Nikolas Matinpalo

Starting Goalie: Linus Ullmark

Head-to-Head Last Season
• Chicago: 1-0-1
• Ottawa: 0-1-1

All-Time Series
• Chicago: 31-10-2-2
• Ottawa: 12-21-2-10

[Mr Ricochet]

Never a bad thing to shoot low stick side.

[Mr Ricochet]

Never a bad idea to shoot her low thru traffic.. My Guy, Crevier……. 2-nuttin. After a great PK.

[BetweenTheDots]

What a nice 1st period.

Now i hope in the 2nd they focus on playing good defense, if they have to defend in their own end, do it get the puck skate it out, shoot it in and get off the ice, play good defense in the neutral zone and don’t open it up because you’re up 3. Zero hero plays inside the opponents blue line.

[LAHawk]

Best period I have seen from the Hawks in a long time.

[BetweenTheDots]

Those refs are something else

[Mr Ricochet]

Donoto with a weak chop to clear the zone, don’t work, hemmed in for another minute, have to ice it. They score off the ensuing faceoff……. As bad an effort as I can remember outa Donato… Artie follows with a where the hell you at coverage, 4-2.

[BetweenTheDots]

So how many guys are they going to let get behind them

[BetweenTheDots]

I thought Donato was taken down as well

I’m sure this isn’t off sides

[Mr Ricochet]

LAHawk wrote:

Best period I have seen from the Hawks in a long time.

The 1st v LA was a nice period as well, LA……. When the structure beaks down there is no safety net for poor puck management. Same as periods 2-3 vs LA and in this 2nd v OTT. No structure and the mistakes become glaring.

[Mr Ricochet]

Like the LA game this is good for the group. Work thru adversity….. The night and day between the 1st and 2nd periods in both these games is a perfect chance to drive home the need for structure and puck management.

[LAHawk]

Mr Ricochet wrote:

LAHawk wrote:

Best period I have seen from the Hawks in a long time.

The 1st v LA was a nice period as well, LA……. When the structure beaks down there is no safety net for poor puck management. Same as periods 2-3 vs LA and in this 2nd v OTT. No structure and the mistakes become glaring.

2nd and third against LA the Hawks played right into the Kings 1-3-1 scheme trying to carry it in rather than dump and chase. Played right into the Kings hands.

[BetweenTheDots]

Okay they survived the 2nd, the time out helped. It really is harder to win these games when Kaiser isn’t playing as well, i hope he has a great 3rd period.

[Mr Ricochet]

Now that’s a goal scorers goal. Get’s the puck of the faceoff, waits waits and slides until he knows the goalie can’t see thru traffic, and boom……….

[TheREALWiz]

Boy, what a great way to end this crap show, move on from #71 Ridly Greig face check, and Arty mis-reading the #44 situation, we now face opposing skates, a foot in deep over the blue line, before the puck gets to the blue line.

[Mr Ricochet]

Why is Nazar tired? Yea he had the 2 on O but he’s getting beat on a lotta puck races, lazy attempts/sequences. The 14 yr old has had 2 games in Could be wrong but I didn’t see Lev until the 7:00 mark of the 3rd. Kid has no jump. What’s he gonna look like in Game 65?. Artie playing his way to the AHL in Blashill’s eyes?

[Mr Ricochet]

Yea LA, OTT ain’t no LA. …… Bedard carried the group tonight.

[Mr Ricochet]

Better watch yourself when Cousins is on the ice. Dude will end your career and not think twice about it… Too bad cuz the dude has some bottom 6 jam/game but instead he’s a scumbag. ….. Rinzel might be a tad gritty when he 26 yrs old and 25 lbs heavier.

[Mr Ricochet]

They went 11 and 7 again and Bert gets thrown out. 10 forwards…….. Crevier to wing for a shift or two?

[BetweenTheDots]

2nd period stunk but really happy with the 1st and 3rd periods.

It was nice to see the Blackhawks get more physical in the 3rd.

I like it when we play teams with bad defense or slow defenseman and leaky goalies.

[BetweenTheDots]

I also really like how they are fighting constantly throughout the game to get on the right side of the puck, the little things repeated over and over and over again.

[Breagbag]

This was a game where they really deserved to win it. Nice to see it. Bedard was feeling it and getting his shots going with a lot of chances.

Now I know it was against a more tired Ottawa team, but still nice to see them go out there and score a bunch while limiting chances against. It was shaky for a bit, but after the failed challenge (It was offside) at least they got a lot of momentum from the PK which almost resulted in a SHG.

Overall, just an entertaining game and they came out on the right side of it. I liked when Dach/Lafferty/Foligno were on the ice together, they seemed to be a really good checking line.

[BetweenTheDots]

Tough road trip coming up it will definitely give us a better idea who the Blackhawks are. No Slaggert tonight?

Even though they had that stretch they are a tough team to play against and that will go a long way this season for them.

[Assman22]

BetweenTheDots wrote:

I also really like how they are fighting constantly throughout the game to get on the right side of the puck, the little things repeated over and over and over again.

Completely agree. Every player plays with a strong work ethic and makes it as hard as possible to play against on the opposing team. They get after every puck and tag team on the board battles. Fun team to watch and love the grinder mentality.

[Mr Ricochet]

Assman22 wrote:

BetweenTheDots wrote:

I also really like how they are fighting constantly throughout the game to get on the right side of the puck, the little things repeated over and over and over again.

Completely agree. Every player plays with a strong work ethic and makes it as hard as possible to play against on the opposing team. They get after every puck and tag team on the board battles. Fun team to watch and love the grinder mentality.

It’s a time and space thing, AssMan. There is speed all over the roster and most, if not all, of these guys were fast as 8 yr olds and learned a long time ago their speed would eliminate time and space for the opponent and good things followed. … Don’t have to sell this roster on that. They’re bought in.

But, as you climb the ladder you realize just being blazing fast ain’t gonna do it. Good jrs teams can handle opponents speed and you then start learning to use that speed wisely and within structure/systems cuz speed not used properly takes guys outa plays and a team like LA will make you pay.

Yea man, watching a fast roster take away time and space is damn fun. Hemming teams in, jumping passes, knocking a puck loose and a mate supporting the play gets a puck at pace, 50/50 wins, passes to areas for a mate to skate into, opponent’s hurried decisions and when it’s done within the structure it’s like having 6 skaters on the ice. A roster like that is dangerous on every inch of the surface … Hell, those cup winning Kings were average speed at best but anything you did you had a King in your face jabbing at your puck with no outlet for you as if they had 6 men on the ice.

And we’re in the really early stages of this brand at the NHL level and it’s being played by a damn young group. … Not only do I like the results I like the trend with another wave of skilled speed merchants waiting their turn down on the farm….. Sure looks like KD is holding aces.

[Mr Ricochet]

BetweenTheDots wrote:

I also really like how they are fighting constantly throughout the game to get on the right side of the puck, the little things repeated over and over and over again.

We’ve been told since Blashill has taken over he teaches defense spurs offense. And as you point out the effort off the puck to get on the right side of it by the group makes you think they are taking the coaching. There are rarely enough like that on one roster (those that do like FLA, CHI, LA win cups), especially a roster full of speed/skill, and it looks like the Hawks might have quite a few of them….. And you got Knight standing behind it all with Commesso gettin jiggy wit it at RKF and Gajan gettin down with his bad self at UMD. .

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