Blackhawks vs Maple Leafs – Lineups, Broadcast Info, Game Thread

The Blackhawks are a hot mess right now. With all of the noise in the background regarding the Corey Perry situation, the loss of Taylor Hall for the rest of the season and how ugly the current losing streak has been, will the boys show up and put out a great effort for their home fans in an Original Six matinee?

The Maple Leafs are doing with some of their own health issues. They’ve been streaky this year, perhaps best made obvious by their current four-game win streak improving them to 5-3-2 in their last 10 games. There are lots of guys on the visitor’s room today who were once Blackhawks, so we’ll see how comfortable they are coming back to the United Center.

And this is a 1 PM CT start on Black Friday. Yippee for holiday weekend hockey! Let’s get it!

Broadcast Info

Puck Drop: 1:00 PM CT
TV: NBC Sports Chicago
Radio: WGN 720 AM

Expected Lineups

Chicago Blackhawks 

Lukas Reichel — Connor Bedard — Philipp Kurashev
Tyler Johnson — Cole Guttman — Taylor Raddysh
Nick Foligno — Jason Dickinson — Joey Anderson
Boris Katchouk — Ryan Donato — Reese Johnson

Alex Vlasic — Seth Jones
Kevin Korchinski — Connor Murphy
Wyatt Kaiser — Isaak Phillips

🥅 Arvid Söderblom

Toronto Maple Leafs

Matthew Knies – Auston Matthews – Mitchell Marner
Tyler Bertuzzi – John Tavares – William Nylander
Nick Robertson – Max Domi – Noah Gregor
Bobby McCann – David Kampf – Ryan Reaves

Morgan Reilly – TJ Brodie
Mark Giordano – Jake McCabe
William Lagesson – Connor Timmins

🥅 Ilya Samosonov

Injury Report

Chicago Blackhawks

  • The Blackhawks are still without forward Andreas Athanasiou. Forward Colin Blackwell (lower body) and defenseman Jarred Tinordi (oblique) are on IR.
  • Toronto Maple Leafs

  • John Klingberg was placed on LTIR on Thursday. Jake Muzzin, Matt Murray and Timothy Liljegren are also on IR for Toronto.
  • What to Watch For

  • Bedard vs. Matthews. Let’s go!
  • The Blackhawks won in Toronto earlier this season. Can they do it again?
  • Maybe a Joey Anderson call-up + revenge game against his former team? I like it.
  • 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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