Blackhawks at Senators – Lineups, Broadcast Info, Game Thread

Mar 28, 2024

Don’t look now, but the Chicago Blackhawks have won six of their last ten games. They still sit in second for the NHL draft lottery, but they’re trending in the right direction; they’re .500 in the month of March with two games to play.

The Hawks invade Ottawa tonight to face a Senators team that will also be in the lottery this year, but are also playing fairly well (5-4-1 in their last 10). Can the Blackhawks stay hot and beat another mediocre team? Or will this be a… Boris Katchouk Revenge Game?

Broadcast Info

Puck Drop: 6:00 PM CT
TV: NBC Sports Chicago
Radio: WGN 720 AM

Expected Lineups

Chicago Blackhawks

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

Alex Vlasic — Seth Jones
Kevin Korchinski — Jaycob Megna
Wyatt Kaiser — Nikita Zaitsev

🥅 Petr Mrazek

Ottawa Senatora

Brady Tkachuk – Shane Pinto – Drake Batherson
Angus Crookshank – Tim Stützle – Claude Giroux
Dominik Kubalik – Ridly Greig – Mathieu Joseph
Boris Katchouk – Mark Kastelic – Parker Kelly

Jake Sanderson – Artem Zub
Jakob Chychrun – Jacob Bernard-Docker
Erik Brännström – Travis Hamonic

🥅 Anton Forsberg

Injury Report

Chicago Blackhawks

Colin Blackwell is banged up. Reese Johnson is in concussion protocol. Connor Murphy and Taylor Hall are the only two left on IR.

Ottawa Senators

Josh Norris, Zack MacEwen and Matthew Highmore are on IR.

What to Watch For

What will Slaggert have for us after a huge night against Calgary?

This is a homecoming for head coach Luke Richardson. I’m sure he’ll be as extra-excited as he gets for a game. Hopefully the team that showed up and dominated the Flames comes back for another game.

Bedard is playing in Canada’s capital city. Let’s see what he has in store for the fans.

Get Caught Up

The standings don't like the #Blackhawks much this season, but a few of the veterans on the team are really having strong campaigns. Here are three whose numbers stand outhttps://t.co/GvHFH7aAYN— Bleacher Nation Blackhawks (@BN_Blackhawks) March 28, 2024

We Need to Talk About Jason Dickinson As a Selke Trophy Candidate — Again#Blackhawks https://t.co/8qLMCVhbxI— Bleacher Nation Blackhawks (@BN_Blackhawks) March 27, 2024

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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 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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