{"id":123218,"date":"2025-08-06T09:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T09:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/123218\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T09:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T09:15:09","slug":"inside-look-at-chicago-blackhawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/123218\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside look at Chicago Blackhawks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Defenseman Artyom Levshunov<\/a>, selected with the No. 2 pick in the 2024 NHL Draft, is expected to make a bigger impact this season after playing 18 games with the Blackhawks in 2024-25. Frank Nazar<\/a>, taken No. 13 in the 2022 NHL Draft, is expected to make a bigger splash after the forward had 26 points (12 goals, 14 assists) in 53 games.<\/p>\n

Chicago\u2019s rebuild continues with Jeff Blashill, who was hired as coach on May 22. The 51-year-old takes over for Anders Sorensen, who was interim coach since Dec. 5 after Luke Richardson was fired. Sorensen will remain on the staff.<\/p>\n

Blashill, who coached the Detroit Red Wings from 2015-22, was an assistant for the Tampa Bay Lightning the past three seasons. He\u2019s well-versed in working with a team trying to get back to its past glory.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve gone through in seven years of a hard rebuild in Detroit and I know the pain that this group\u2019s gone through over the last couple of years, and I also know the pitfalls that are potentially ahead,\u201d Blashill said May 27. \u201cSo, we\u2019ll work like crazy to avoid those pitfalls as we go to lead this team into a better tomorrow.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be hard. It\u2019s going to take more sacrifice and more work than most people are willing to give, but for those who are willing to give it, I think the reward\u2019s going to be great. In time, this great city of Chicago and our great Blackhawks fans, we can deliver a championship-level team and I look forward to getting to that moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Blackhawks did add this offseason, including Sam Lafferty<\/a>, who they acquired in a trade with the Buffalo Sabres on July 1. Lafferty played for Chicago from 2021-23.<\/p>\n

They also acquired forward Andre Burakovsky<\/a> from the Seattle Kraken for forward Joe Veleno<\/a> on June 21. Burakovsky won the Stanley Cup with the Washington Capitals in 2018 and the Colorado Avalanche in 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, there are a lot (of young players) in Chicago; I think I\u2019m going to fit in where I can help them to be better and to create more opportunities for them, set up some plays,\u201d Burakovsky said. \u201cJust doing my thing to try and help them out and become better and help the team be better. There\u2019s a lot of talent, a lot of really good players on the team that are young who can really take the next step, and we can become a contender here.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Blackhawks knew entering free agency they weren\u2019t going to make a splash. It\u2019s time for their prospects to have a bigger hand in the rebuild.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrading for Burakovsky, I think Lafferty was more so a reaction to the market where we can get someone we know, a little shorter term, a little more flexibility there. And then we didn’t want to put any players in front of some of the young guys that we do think are ready,\u201d Davidson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow we have enough young players that there aren’t enough spots for all of them to play, so there will be battles there and they’ll keep each other accountable, keep each other honest on earning spots here in the NHL. But we do feel that a couple of them are ready to really take a role and run with it and be a positive impact on the team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defenseman Artyom Levshunov, selected with the No. 2 pick in the 2024 NHL Draft, is expected to make…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":123219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-123218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114981065796410343","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}