Generally, the Blackhawks’ damage luck has been a lot better this season than final season.
However after a stretch of very lucky well being the previous few weeks, they’ve added a couple of guys again to the damage record in the course of the previous few days.
Younger ahead Colton Dach suffered a hyper-extended left elbow Thursday, after which veteran ahead Jason Dickinson and veteran defenseman Alec Martinez each suffered undisclosed accidents Saturday.
All three gamers sat out the Hawks’ 7-4 win Sunday towards the Flyers. Interim coach Anders Sorensen has described Dach as day-to-day, suggesting he may return quickly, however he hasn’t supplied any information on Dickinson or Martinez but.
Final season, the Hawks accrued 362 man-games misplaced, per NHL Damage Viz, which was the second-most within the NHL — behind solely the Golden Knights. The damage wave they skilled in January 2024 was particularly absurd.
This season, the Hawks entered Sunday having accrued 178 man-games misplaced, the Thirteenth-most within the league. However taking a look at skaters particularly — since goalie Laurent Brossoit lacking the whole season with knee issues accounts for a giant chunk of that quantity — the Hawks have really been a healthier-than-average workforce.
Full home
The Hawks logged their third sellout of the season on the United Middle on Sunday, saying a crowd of 20,125.
The workforce has scaled again the variety of “Finest Day Ever” theme video games this season, throughout which the noisy kid-oriented programming tends to be very annoying to adults. However this one was a transparent success from a ticket-sales standpoint.
The standing-room-only crowd bucked the general present development, although, as followers tire of the losses and shift their consideration to basketball and baseball. The Hawks have offered fewer than 17,000 tickets simply 4 instances this season, however two of these cases have occurred this month, coincidentally each towards the Kings — together with 16,981 this previous Thursday.
Florida man
Former Hawks defenseman Seth Jones has not but skilled the Florida rejuvenation he in all probability anticipated.
In Jones’ first 9 video games for the Panthers (coming into Sunday, they’d been cumulatively outscored 7-2 with a 44.3% scoring-chance ratio (second-worst amongst Panthers defensemen) throughout his five-on-five ice time. He had three factors in these 9 video games, having simply scored his first Panthers purpose Saturday.
He initially slid onto their second pairing after the commerce, however Aaron Ekblad’s 20-game suspension for performance-enhancing medicine has bumped him as much as their first pairing with Gustav Forsling, and that duo has not discovered a lot chemistry.
The Panthers are nonetheless safely in playoff place, and Jones’ postseason efficiency will matter excess of his regular-season acclimation. However contemplating the Panthers inherited the five-plus years remaining on Jones’ contract, there have to be slightly concern already that Jones’ transfer to a greater setting may not repair his weaknesses as a lot as hoped.
Boston transplants
The Bruins jumped right into a rebuild this spring by buying and selling Brad Marchand and others on the deadline. That, mixed with Charlie McAvoy’s an infection, has left the Bruins with an uncharacteristically bare-bones lineup — which the Hawks will see firsthand April 10 in Boston.
In reality, three former Hawks defensemen at the moment comprise half of the Bruins’ six-man defensive corps. Nikita Zadorov and Henri Jokijarju are their prime pairing. Ian Mitchell, the extremely touted prospect who struggled mightily in three partial NHL seasons with the Hawks, is on their third pairing.
That doesn’t sound like a very good recipe for fulfillment, however the Bruins don’t have any different choices in the meanwhile.
