Blackhawks at Golden Knights – Lineups, Broadcast Info, Game Thread

Apr 16, 2024

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Two games left. The penultimate game on the 2023-24 schedule for the Chicago Blackhawks comes in Sin City against a team that’s battling for playoff position. Oh, and Vegas is (surprise!) getting healthy bodies back. Tomas Hertl will be in the lineup and they’re fighting to get ahead of LA — who the Hawks play on Thursday — to have a better first-round matchup in the playoffs.

The young Blackhawks are walking into legitimate playoff hockey tonight. This will be a test. And a great learning moment. And… it’s on ESPN+.

Broadcast Info

Puck Drop: 9:00 PM CT
TV: ESPN+ / Hulu
Radio: WGN 720 AM

Expected Lineups

Chicago Blackhawks

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

Alex Vlasic — Seth Jones
Kevin Korchinski — Jaycob Megna
Jarred Tinordi — Connor Murphy

🥅 Petr Mrazek

Vegas Golden Knights

Ivan Barbashev – Jack Eichel – Jonathan Marchessault
Chandler Stephenson – Tomas Hertl – Pavel Dorofeyev
Brett Howden – William Karlsson – Anthony Mantha
Paul Cotter – Nicolas Roy – Keegan Kolesar

Noah Hanifin – Nic Hague
Brayden McNabb – Shea Theodore
Ben Hutton – Zach Whitecloud

🥅 Adin Hill

Injury Report

Chicago Blackhawks

Reese Johnson is still in concussion protocol. Taylor Hall is the only guy left on IR.

Vegas Golden Knights

Mark Stone, William Carrier and Robin Lehner are on IR.

What to Watch For

Vegas can move past the Kings in the Pacific if they beat the Blackhawks and Ducks in their final two games. So the young Blackhawks are skating into a legit playoff game tonight. Against the defending champs.

How will Nazar play against a bigger, heavier team in Vegas with an extra 24 hours for the adrenaline of his NHL debut to wear off?

Bedard hasn’t lit the world up lately. It’s been a long season. Can he give us another showtime moment before the end of his rookie season?

Get Caught Up

Mike Monaco, analyst Ryan Callahan and reporter Blake Bolden will call #Blackhawks – Golden Knights tonight on ESPN+/Hulu.
— Jeff Agrest #🟦 (@JeffAgrest) April 16, 2024

"From being at the Frozen Four to flying in last night and then figuring out I was playing today was really crazy. I'm a little exhausted but it was a blast."#Blackhawks top prospect Frank Nazar provides glimpse of NHL future in memorable debut: https://t.co/2oypbD9TfR— Charlie Roumeliotis (@CRoumeliotis) April 15, 2024

Seth Jones before Jan. 13 during the last two seasons combined: 57 GP, 2G, 22A

Jones after Jan. 13: 80 GP, 18G, 26A

"[Maybe] the eclipse has been on that day and we didn’t know about it."

Story: https://t.co/iyNKhEWdLW— Ben Pope (@BenPopeCST) April 16, 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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