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
Toronto Maple Leafs