Pre-Gamin’: Blackhawks vs Sharks (6 PM CT) – Lineups, Broadcast Info, Game Thread, More

Jan 01, 2023

Happy 2023, Blackhawks fans! We get to celebrate New Year’s Day with the Blackhawks playing a bad team in the second-half of a back-to-back. What a time to be alive!

Broadcast Info

Puck Drop: 6:00 PM CT
TV: NBCSN
Radio: WGN 720 AM

Expected Lineups

Chicago Blackhawks

Tyler Johnson — Max Domi — Patrick Kane
Philipp Kurashev — Jonathan Toews — Taylor Raddysh
Andreas Athanasiou — Jason Dickinson — Sam Lafferty
Boris Katchouk — Reese Johnson — Colin Blackwell

Jake McCabe — Seth Jones
Isaak Phillips — Connor Murphy
Jack Johnson — Ian Mitchell

🥅 Petr Mrazek

San Jose Sharks

Timo Meier – Logan Couture – Alexander Barbanov
Matt Nieto – Tomas Hertl – Kevin Lebanc
Nick Bonino – Nico Sturm – Evgeny Svechnikov
Oskar Lindblom – Steven Lorentz – Jonah Gadjovich

Jaycob Megna – Erik Karlsson
Marc-Édouard Vlasic – Radim Simek
Matthew Benning – Mario Ferraro

🥅 Kaapo Kähkönen

Injury Report

Chicago Blackhawks

Jarred Tinordi is on IR.

San Jose Sharks

Luke Kunin is on IR.

What to Watch For

The Blackhawks have a chance to start the new year with a win. They finished 2022 going 4-20-2 after the start of November. Four wins in two months. Not ideal.

In the month of December, the Sharks (3.27) average twice as many goals per game as the Blackhawks (1.62), who were dead last in the NHL in the final month of 2022.

The Blackhawks ranked 28th in the NHL in goals against per game in December (3.77). The good news: San Jose was dead last in goals against (4.17). So… yeah, still don’t bet the over.

Get Caught Up

Refs for @SanJoseSharks @NHLBlackhawks are Graham Skilliter #24 and Kendrick Nicholson #30. Tonight's officials: https://t.co/ZddordNmjl #SJS #CHI #SJSvsCHI #SJSharks #Blackhawks #Sharks #Hawks pic.twitter.com/5uhIYLQXGn— Scouting The Refs (@ScoutingTheRefs) January 1, 2023

First Tide of 2023 ✨ pic.twitter.com/Sz7ak5ao2W
— San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) January 1, 2023

I mean… #Blackhawks 👀 https://t.co/In8Ibc8kYI
— Bleacher Nation Blackhawks (@BN_Blackhawks) January 1, 2023

TRANSACTION: The #SJSharks have recalled D Nick Cicek from #SJBarracuda

🗣️ CHEEEEECH pic.twitter.com/63UuVJZ3iz
— SJ Barracuda (@sjbarracuda) January 1, 2023

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Tab Bamford

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 three books about the Blackhawks: "The Future: Connor Bedard and the Chicago Blackhawks' New Era,"(Triumph Books),"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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