Pre-Gamin’: Blackhawks vs Bruins (7:30 PM CT) – Lineups, Broadcast Info, Game Thread
The San Jose Sharks and Columbus Blue Jackets face each other tonight, an opportune time for the Blackhawks to have a string of injuries take guys out of the lineup and the overwhelmingly best team in the league show up at the United Center. Boston’s a wagon, folks. They’re 23-7-2 on the road this season. So… good luck, boys!
Broadcast Info
Puck Drop: 7:30 PM CT
TV: NBCSN
Radio: WGN 720 AM
Expected Lineups
Chicago Blackhawks
Lukas Reichel — Philipp Kurashev — Andreas Athanasiou
Tyler Johnson — Jason Dickinson — Taylor Raddysh
Mike Hardman — MacKenzie Entwistle — Joey Anderson
Boris Katchouk — Jujhar Khaira — Billy Robinson
Caleb Jones — Seth Jones
Jarred Tinordi — Connor Murphy
Ian Mitchell — Nikita Zaitsev
🥅 Petr Mrazek
Boston Bruins
Brad Marchand – Patrice Bergeron – Tyler Bertuzzi
Pavel Zacha – David Krejci – David Pastrnak
Jake DeBrusk – Charlie Coyle – Trent Frederic
AJ Greer – Tomas Nosek – Garnet Hathaway
Matt Grzelcyk – Charlie McAvoy
Dmitry Orlov – Brandon Carlo
Derek Forbert – Connor Clifton
🥅 Linus Ullmark
Injury Report
Chicago Blackhawks
Jonathan Toews and Reese Johnson are on IR. Cole Guttman (shoulder) is done for the year. Andreas Englund (hammy) and Colin Blackwell are out (groin). Anders Bjork (lower-body) and Austin Wagner (???) are out as well.
Boston Bruins
Taylor Hall and Nick Foligno are on IR.
What to Watch For
- The Blackhawks specifically brought up Mike Hardman and Buddy Robinson because Boston is a bigger, heavier team. How and where they’re used will be interesting. They’ve both put in the work in Rockford this season for another crack at the NHL.
- The Bruins are one of the best teams down the middle in the entire NHL. The Blackhawks are… not. Jason Dickinson is going to have his hands full tonight, and the Blackhawks are admittedly still figuring out the rest of the faceoff situation.
- Boston has points in 25 of 32 road games this season.
