It Can’t Get Much Worse, Right?

The headline says all of it. It might’t get a lot worse.

The Blackhawks went 0-2-1 of their season-opening highway journey to Colorado, New Jersey, and Pittsburgh and had been capable of salvage only one level main as much as the house schedule lid-lifter tonight towards the New York Islanders. The schedule this week will get slightly bit simpler, so there’s that. However, the Islanders — regardless of an identical 0-2-0 begin — aren’t any slouch. Each groups shall be trying to wake from their season-opening slumber tonight on the United Heart, which may both make for some nice hockey or, you understand, the precise reverse.

The Blackhawks end the week with a go to from Vancouver (1-1-1) on Thursday night time after which Detroit (1-0-1) on Sunday night time.

If the Blackhawks hope to reap the benefits of three house video games this week, they’ll want higher performances from a number of faces.

The Blackhawks Have to Get Extra Out of McCabe, Johnson, Fleury, and DeBrincat … Like, Tonighthttps://t.co/PP3NDu038p

— Bleacher Nation Blackhawks (@BN_Blackhawks) October 19, 2021

One-Timers

•   Jeremy Colliton is switching issues up along with his strains forward of tonight’s sport with New York, ending the DeBrincat-Johnson-Kane experiment, and changing Adam Gaudette with Mike Hardman. Right here’s how the strains checked out apply right now.

Hardman is formally changing Gaudette within the lineup, so I would count on these first 4 strains to be the Blackhawks’ actual strains tonight: https://t.co/ICJuTtLUh9

— Ben Pope (@BenPopeCST) October 19, 2021

• The Blackhawks rank twenty ninth within the NHL in objectives per sport towards at 4.33. That’s, uh, actually unhealthy. Solely Vegas (4.50), Arizona (5.33), and the Islanders (5.50) fall behind them in that division. The silver lining? The Blackhawks get to play the Islanders and their 5.33 GA/GM tonight in a get-me-right sport on the United Heart. With two groups within the backside 4 of the NHL in GA/GM, objectives shall be scored; let’s hope the Blackhawks rating extra of them tonight.

•   Dylan Strome remains to be a wholesome scratch, and at this level, you must marvel if he’ll ever play one other sport with the Blackhawks.

Colliton’s remark right now on Strome, who’ll be a wholesome scratch once more tonight:

“He’s bought to apply exhausting, put together to play. That’s what he can do. After which the lineup, that’s as much as us. [We’ve] bought to determine day by day what we expect is our greatest likelihood to win. That is it.” https://t.co/kQKv9vSEbw

— Ben Pope (@BenPopeCST) October 19, 2021

Puck Drops and Broadcast Information

•   Blackhawks vs. Islanders— Tuesday, October nineteenth at 7:00 p.m. CT
TV: ESPN
Radio: WGN 720 AM

•   Blackhawks vs. Canucks — Friday, October fifteenth at 6:00 p.m. CT
TV: NBCSCH, SNP, NHLN
Radio: WGN 720 AM

•   Blackhawks vs. Purple Wings — Saturday, October sixteenth at 6:00 p.m. CT
TV: NBCSCH, SN1, NHLN
Radio: WGN 720 AM

Anticipated Blackhawks Strains

Blackhawks (0-2-1, 1 pts)

Hagel – Dach – Kane
Kubalík – Toews – Kurashev
DeBrincat – Borgström – Hardman
Entwistle – Johnson – Khaira

McCabe – Murphy
de Haan – Stillman
Gustafsson – Jones

Fleury
Lankinen

Blackhawks Story of the Tape

Powerplay
36.4% (eighth)

Penalty-Kill
100% (T-1st)

Faceoffs
54.1% (seventh)

Targets Per Sport
2.33 (twenty second)

Targets Towards Per Sport
4.33 (twenty ninth)

High Scorers

Patrick Kane: 4 PTS (3 G, 1 A)
Dominik Kubalík: 2 PTS (2 G)
Kirby Dach: 2 PTS (2 G)

Blackhawks Damage Report

Caleb Jones (LTIR – Wrist)
Wyatt Kalynuk (LTIR – Ankle)
Andrew Shaw (LTIR – Retirement)

Hold An Eye Out For

• In a shocking early-season flip of occasions, the Blackhawks are tied for the highest spot within the NHL on the subject of the penalty kill (one hundred pc) and presently rank eighth within the NHL once they’re on the person benefit, changing 36.4 p.c of their probabilities. The Isles, properly, they haven’t been glorious in both division. New York is has transformed simply 14.3 p.c of their alternatives on the facility play and has killed off simply 66.7 p.c of opposing penalties.

• The Detroit Purple Wings have allowed 4.0 objectives per sport, good for twenty fifth within the NHL, and the Vancouver Canucks have allowed 3.0 per sport, 18th within the NHL. The Blackhawks ought to have some alternatives to attain objectives this week, and hopefully, we’ll see them take benefit and get their 5-on-5 sport not off course.

• I discussed already that New York has struggled on the facility play, however Vancouver and Detroit have been significantly better than the Islanders. The Canucks have transformed on 25 p.c of their probabilities (thirteenth) and the Purple Wings have transformed on 28.6 p.c of their probabilities (twelfth). The Blackhawks’ good PK% shall be put to the check this week, and we’ll see if it’s simply an early aberration or one thing of actual substance.