Blackhawks at Golden Knights – Lineups, Broadcast Info, Game Thread

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Two games left. The penultimate game on the 2023-24 schedule for the Chicago Blackhawks comes in Sin City against a team that’s battling for playoff position. Oh, and Vegas is (surprise!) getting healthy bodies back. Tomas Hertl will be in the lineup and they’re fighting to get ahead of LA — who the Hawks play on Thursday — to have a better first-round matchup in the playoffs.

The young Blackhawks are walking into legitimate playoff hockey tonight. This will be a test. And a great learning moment. And… it’s on ESPN+.

Broadcast Info

Puck Drop: 9:00 PM CT
TV: ESPN+ / Hulu
Radio: WGN 720 AM

Expected Lineups

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Chicago Blackhawks 

Nick Foligno — Connor Bedard — Philipp Kurashev
Lukas Reichel — Andreas Athanasiou — Tyler Johnson
Jason Dickinson — Frank Nazar III — Joey Anderson
Landon Slaggert — Ryan Donato — Taylor Raddysh

Alex Vlasic — Seth Jones
Kevin Korchinski — Jaycob Megna
Jarred Tinordi — Connor Murphy

🥅 Petr Mrazek

Vegas Golden Knights

Ivan Barbashev – Jack Eichel – Jonathan Marchessault
Chandler Stephenson – Tomas Hertl – Pavel Dorofeyev
Brett Howden – William Karlsson – Anthony Mantha
Paul Cotter – Nicolas Roy – Keegan Kolesar

Noah Hanifin – Nic Hague
Brayden McNabb – Shea Theodore
Ben Hutton – Zach Whitecloud

🥅 Adin Hill

Injury Report

Chicago Blackhawks

  • Reese Johnson is still in concussion protocol. Taylor Hall is the only guy left on IR.
  • Vegas Golden Knights

  • Mark Stone, William Carrier and Robin Lehner are on IR.
  • What to Watch For

  • Vegas can move past the Kings in the Pacific if they beat the Blackhawks and Ducks in their final two games. So the young Blackhawks are skating into a legit playoff game tonight. Against the defending champs.
  • How will Nazar play against a bigger, heavier team in Vegas with an extra 24 hours for the adrenaline of his NHL debut to wear off?
  • Bedard hasn’t lit the world up lately. It’s been a long season. Can he give us another showtime moment before the end of his rookie season?
  • Get Caught Up

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    Tab Bamford has been writing about the Chicago Blackhawks for almost two decades. He joined Bleacher Nation as the lead Blackhawks writer in May 2022. Tab is a member of the Professional Hockey Writers Association and is the author of two books about the Blackhawks: "100 Things Blackhawks Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die" (Triumph Books) and "Chicago Blackhawks: An Illustrated Timeline" (Reedy Press, 2021). Find him on Twitter/X/Instagram/Threads at @The1Tab

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