How Does Frank Nazar’s RETURN From Injury Change the Chicago Blackhawk's Lineup? | CHGO Blackhawks

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December 20th, the last time we saw Frank Nazar play, he has been on the ice for a couple of weeks now, full participant in practice today, looks fast, looks good and looked ready.

Yeah, I think he has got what the Blackhawks have been missing a little bit in the last stretch of games where we've talked about their ability to score, their ability to play with speed,

and kind of just be able to be in games consistently, be predictable.

Nazar's got a lot of that, he's got a lot of rapport with the guys that he's playing, that he has played with.

I think guys get a feel for his game and getting him back in the lineup is only beneficial to this team.

So good to see that he's going to be back, it's going to be interesting to see what kind of speed and tenacity he plays with knowing that he is kind of playing still with a

little bit of protection needed for the for the jaw and everything, but hopefully he can be as back to 100% Frank as he can be.

He's got the plastic kind of goes in front of his jaw, no, he does not wearing the bubble like the dark was wearing it is literally just under the jaw.

We're going to hear from him right now and you'll be able to see on his right chin a nasty scar from this injury.

So here's Frank Nazar after practice today.

You ready to get back into the game action fight?

Yeah, I've been ready for four weeks just now I'm allowed to, so I'm ready to go.

How much do you think I'll get into that extra practice?

Yeah, I thought it was good to get up and down the sheet.

You know, I'll play with some guys that I'll probably be playing with and really just get those touches in of, you know, game-like situations, so.

How do you feel, strength and stamina wise?

I feel great. I feel great. Yeah, numbers look good. Everything looks good. So I'm ready to go.

Did you lose any weight? Did you have to get some of the back and are you back to that?

Yeah, I lost about probably like seven or eight pounds. I've gained probably like half of that back, so.

But I'm pretty up that my weight fluctuates throughout the year anyways, so it's pretty normal.

Did you just go that way with the regular? Is that just to give yourself some breathing, not go for a bubble?

It actually is like doctor recommendation. Yeah, so it's like, it's supposed to not put any pressure against my jaw or my chin and, um, it's just like safer than the bubble, I guess.

Any tips from Connor or any uncomfortable from it?

A little bit more, more so the tips for when it first happened, just, um, what to eat, stuff like that.

Yeah, I think it's, um, his execution. I think really just, his wall plays just so good. Um, he always finds me to speed kind of stuff like that.

And then, you know, he gets to those dirty areas. So hopefully we can, you know, build that chemistry and, uh, find, find a few good plays coming up here.

Is that cool? Is that like feeding Caleb and PC after that? Yeah, it's sweet. They're really cool guys. They're awesome, uh, come in there and talk to us.

You know, they didn't have to do that. So it's really cool to see them and, you know, just have a conversation and ask some questions.

Alright, there he is, Frank Nazar. I kept a close eye on him during practice today. And, you know, you can only glean so much from a practice on a Wednesday afternoon, but, uh, looked fast, scored a really nice goal during one of the drills.

You know, he is chomping at the bit to get back. And I think something that maybe we've lost sight of a little bit is before the jaw and after the hip or whatever was a lower body injury, he was nowhere close to 100% we know that he was struggling. We know that he wasn't at full speed and the offense was sort of struggling here.

This jaw, chin injury, whatever you want to call it has given him the opportunity to also heal up the lower body he was dealing with. Yeah, so hopefully he's full speed.

You get a little time off. And if he needed to get some recovery, he's definitely got time for it. So again, I just, I wonder what version of him is is coming back here. Hopefully it's a more 100% version of him that we saw at the beginning of the season.

That could that be off the expectations to have on him as first game is back. It might be, but he's he has felt as he said there, you know, he just wanted to get get back to it. He said he's I've been ready to get back to it for four weeks. So that's how long he's been out. And, you know, I imagine his condition is going to be just fine because he's a young guy.

And he's been able to skate for a bit. This isn't like this is, you know, the first time he's touched the ice in four weeks. Like he's been able to have a little bit more of that ramp up time. And I expect him to come back in and provide a little bit of a spark for the group.

Well, it just, I mean, it just makes the team a lot deeper. And as we look at the lines from today, nasar was centering the second line with Ryan, did not know when Tyler Bertuzzi, but dark was with green and Berkowski Berkowski back at practice today, after doing with what sounded like a family illness. It was hard. Kind of hard to.

It didn't sound. Blaschle didn't make it sound like it was the illness that ran through the team. It was something else. Right.

I'll relate it. Yeah, I'll over more was with Nicolartis and Landon slaggart. Jason Dickinson with Flino and McKayev and Lafferty and Doc, where you're extra forwards.

Deep air is the same. Blaschle, crevier, Kaiser, Lev Shantoff, Grizzlyck, Murphy, and obviously night in Sonner, Blooming Gold. So that line of nasar Bertuzzi and Denato, nasar Bertuzzi, I've shown a lot of chemistry this year.

When we posted the somebody asks us on Twitter, like, why would Denato get on the second line? It almost feels like there's nowhere else for him to go, because you like the way more and largest are playing together.

I think slaggart brings a lot to that line in terms of. Kind of what those two guys.

They're both willing to go into the corners, but I think slaggart really kind of thrives at that and does well in front of the net.

So I think that's a nice complimentary line. You're not going to play slaggart on the second line. You're not going to play Flino on the second line.

You can maybe play Mikaev, but you got Dickinson Flino Mikaev as your shut down line. That is truly your checking line.

So I think Denato is just kind of the guy that can go up and down the line up, and he's the one that kind of needs a spot filled in there.

So I don't mind him in that spot on that second line with nasar Bertuzzi.

Two guys who are willing to shoot the puck, you know, let Denato do simplify the game because those two, those other two for as much skill as nasar has.

He does play that simple game, the Hawksman looking for.

Yeah, he still is a guy that will play to the center of the ice and uses speed to create down the middle.

And yeah, I mean, Denato, you know, we've we've praised his versatility in the last, you know, season and a half to seasons.

Last year, you know, being able to be on the top line alongside kind of a dart and then also play on the fourth line at times.

He has that ability and that game that can kind of just translate based off of what you need out of them.

And I think putting him with nasar and Burakowski or Bertuzzi rather is good because it's like you have guys that'll go to the net.

You have guys that can go and get pucks. You have guys that can play at both ends of the ice. Denato can do all of that and it allows him to kind of open up as like.

Like nasar is a pretty good shooter. He's a pretty good distributor. Bertuzzi is, I think, got more skill than we give him credit for, but his bread and butter game is go to the net and, you know, create within that 10 foot radius around the net.

So maybe Denato can be more of a shooter style guy where, you know, it doesn't necessarily have to be the only guy that's going to go get the puck or the only guy that's going to be a little bit more defensively responsible.

He can be a guy that can be a little bit more offensively, you know, his game can be geared towards get to the get to areas where you can get your shot off. And I think that's something we've asked of him.

At times this year of like, don't be the dangler that you want to be the shooter that you were last season to the tune of 30 goals and a lot of those were going to the net.

So I think if you, if you give him guys that play that style, it'll allow him to kind of flow into that part of his game and just kind of fit right in, hopefully.

And I think it gives two guys that aren't the fastest in Denato and Bertuzzi some speed with nasa. So I think it works.

I really, I really do want to see Denato get back to what got him here, right? And last year he scored 31 goals and you never saw him try to be young or younger and I, you know, trying to skate through people stick handle around toe drag.

It's just not his game. And I don't know if he's maybe pressing a little bit. We've seen this with sort of the team in general, where, you know, things start to go sideways offensively.

So they're all trying to be perfect. And you heard Jeff Flash will sort of elude to that after the last couple losses. Yeah.

So maybe that's happening with him to where he's like, I have to have a perfect play here to make this happen. But no, you don't know you don't you look at the goal. Jason Dickinson scored against Winnipeg.

He didn't have a great option to never great look, but just kind of put it on net. And it's fooled kind of he'll buck and he got through traffic and went in.

That's how these goals are scored. And I hope they get these message, the message here and hopefully playing with two pretty straight forward players and nasa.

And Bertuzzi gets Denato doing it. I think it also takes a little bit of pressure off Denato to have to be the goal score on that line.

So we'll see a couple of people in a chat said they'd rather see Denato sit in dock.

I wouldn't mind that right now, because I do think that maybe Ryan Denato could use a bit of a reset, but I don't think we're there yet.

Because I don't think I think he's been playing some frustrating hockey, but I don't think he's been playing detrimental hockey, where it's really hurting the team.

Not to say Colton doc is either, but I think they're going to give the veteran who is scored 31 goals a little more leeway than they're going to give a young player who we really don't know how they feel about Colton doc's future here.

He was very much in danger of being scratched the last couple games, but Burakowski gets sick, table gets injured and he's back in.

But who knows, and now it looks like he'll be the guy that said someone I think was green eyes in the chat said they have to make a roster decision now.

Don't they they don't have to do that until table returns and Jeff Flash will talk about table. We hear from Jeff Flash on the next segment.

He's expected back before the Olympics, so they can put that decision off for a little while, but yeah, someone's going to have to go down.

Yeah, it's it's interesting with doc because it's this like there's definitely an aspect of his game that sticks out. That's the physical side of things.

But it kind of comes down to like, how does how does he use that? Like just running out there and being a hits guy is one thing.

But are you able to evolve into your power forward, your physical guy.

So when the puck is in your zone, you're going to the front of the net, you're parking yourself in front of the goalie and you're, you know, winning position battles there and being a screen and being a tip guy.

Or are you still trying to be a little bit more of a offensive creator kind of thing, which he was in junior and early in the AHL, he was, you know, more of a offensive contributor for the ice hogs.

But I don't think that that's going to be his thing in the NHL. So I don't know, I think maybe finding that game that's going to keep you here for the long term is going to be important.

And being the physical guy, being the power guy is kind of the role that's going to get him there. And I wonder if he can just kind of lean into that more because he's had opportunities on the power play doc has.

And there have been a lot of times where I see him like at the half boards. And I'm like, what's he doing out there?

Like playing the center play down the middle of the ice. You know, I know that they like to have fluidity on the power playing guys interchange positions and everything.

But some guys don't need to be on the perimeter. Right. Some guys are built to be between the dots or in front of the net.

I really would like him to just go to school and just if Colton Doc's going to have success in his league, he's going to be a tower Bertuzzi clone.

He's going to have and he's got kind of a similar skill set, right? Like decent hands, physical, willing to engage the knock on doc aside from health has always been consistency.

He willing to show up and compete night after night after night. And that is something that tower Bertuzzi had to shake.

I mean, really until this year was the consistency you'd have games where he was an absolute menace for 60 minutes.

And then you'd have two weeks go by where he was a non factor. This year, he's been a factor in every game. And I don't know if it's a Jeff Flashal thing.

I don't know if it's just he's more bought in this year for whatever reason. But I will, but I will say Bertuzzi does plan those half boards now and again.

But I think again, that's a guy that has earned that right. Yeah, I think he's probably get more skill than than Doc does player for player.

Yeah, I mean, I think he's shown more. It's hard to say because I do think Doc has some for a guy his size like pretty good hands.

He does, you know, Bertuzzi just seems to have this second nature about being that net front.

You know, guy who can tip pucks and he's always jumping in the air and he's got kind of this. He has learned how to master that style.

Yeah, he is a high. What do you call it? A high activity play event. High event player for sure. Yeah, I think.

I think it's going to be interesting when they have to make this roster decision with who's going to go down and how it's going to benefit the player that goes down, I think.

Well, because it'd be nice to be like, Oh, you just send down slag or Doc or Lafferty or whatever. And you don't think about it.

But we can talk about this in a little bit, but like maybe Nick Lardis goes back to Rockford and plays top line 20 minutes and goes back to that.

Well, let's, so I'm glad you said that Jeff Flashal sort of addresses this in his post in his post practice pressure today.

So let's hit the break zone when we come back. We'll hear from Jeff Flashal and jump off that point coming up next on CHTO Blackhawks.

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It's like Frank Nazar is good to go for tomorrow. Yeah, we anticipate him being in the lineup. The full go today and so you're excited to have him back.

Yeah, you're fine with table. I think he did something on the other rank earlier this morning. Do you expect him back before the Olympics? Or is that even a question mark right now? What is the Olympics before? I can't say 100% but I don't anticipate. It's not something where we're like you won't be back before that.

I mean, so it's still kind of a day to day thing. He's not going to travel. So he's not playing tomorrow. But after that, I just I would just take a day by day.

Thank God that he got back on the ice today is every step of progress. Yeah, and he's been on the ice a little bit. It just been early. You know, so he's been on the ice. So at some point, we're going to get him back into practice. And that's when I have a better update.

Are these roster decisions going to help us with some young guys that are making some decisions on the point? Yeah, you know, I think they, I think that's it's a good thing.

Number one, you know, to have tough roster decisions. Certainly we are mindful of the long term development of some of the young players.

And so, you know, we're trying to put guys in, you know, positions that they can succeed. So if, you know, it gets to a point with as a young guy that maybe if one's not playing, you look at potentially using Rockford.

But that just that will take that when it comes. It's not we're not there yet at all.

What's it been like as a coach or you get one guy back, then another one goes down. You kind of had to navigate some lineup decisions.

Yeah, yeah, I mean, it's, you know, I think the last few have been a little bit crazy just because of the sickness is one that makes it way harder because you don't know that until, you know, it did the onset of it.

So, but that's just part of it. You know, it's it's nothing that, you know, we haven't been through as a coaching staff.

I think every guy in the, you know, has been through something like this. He just kind of handle it and move on.

You know, I think the biggest thing messaging wise is, you know, we're in a nightly basis of 20 good enough to win.

You've got to go and zero excuse and go try to win a hockey game.

Is it kind of just coincidence having both Connor and Frank start to come back on the start of a back to back?

Coincidence coincidence. Yeah, just the way and you know, with those particular injuries, you know, you can play it back to back.

You know, the only ones you probably worry about is like a groin, maybe or something like that, but other than that, back to backs back to back.

What do you like in the more largest slide?

You know, I think more Z and largest we've played together a lot. They played together in the mind is a little bit, there's a little bit of chemistry there.

I thought, you know, with more Z with all three of them, they can all skate.

There's a lot of tenacity on the line. Certainly when you add slags, that it gives you some of that tenacity, some disruption on the four check ability, get them the net and be a net front presence guy.

It's not that the other two aren't asked to share some of that responsibility, but you know, it's nice if you can have a line where you have a guy that's a net front presence guy.

And it's just more natural for that to happen. So, you know, it's, it's, again, they've kind of had some chemistry and hopefully they can continue to build it.

Left shot, I've mentioned he's been working on Brian King over the last week, just working on the shots, maybe creating some more velocity.

Do you, I mean, is that an area where you think maybe he can capitalize on this orange? 100%. You know, he's had tons of prime shot opportunities in the slot.

And that we just want to help him kind of, you know, his, his, I would say his mechanics of it aren't great.

Anybody so strong, he's kind of gotten by without it. And so we're trying to help is shooting mechanics a little bit to help give him a little bit more, not just velocity on the shot, but also, you know, create a little more deception with it.

He gets locked in. And so the deception isn't what we think it can be. So, you know, part of our thing with him is growing them in all areas of the game.

You know, again, he could have 10 goals right now if he scored and some was up to.

There's almost two trade deadlines this year. You coached through one, but with the Olympic freezes, that maybe made for some unique conversations with Kyler, right?

I wouldn't say that per se, but, you know, certainly there is kind of, it's a unique year that way that, you know, there may be some activity, you know, before over the next week and a half, but, but we'll see, you know, I don't, I think, you know, a lot of times what happens is the GM's a lot of times right the world

in junior's and they come back from that and there's some activity and then it settles down a little bit. And so we'll see if it continues to, if it settles down, if it heats up here, we'll see.

All right. There's Jeff Lassel today after practice. I want to put a note in the lesson of stuff like that was interesting too, but talking about the roster decision and like, what's best for development? And before we hit the break zone, you sort of mentioned, like, maybe it is nickel artists who goes down.

And that would not be or should not be viewed as any sort of punishment or, or maybe it's all over more whatever, whoever it is, in certain name here, right?

It doesn't necessarily mean that it's a punishment or a demotion. It's, hey, if we're not going to have you in the lineup every night, you need to be playing.

And that could be the best thing for someone like largest or more if they're not going to be getting top six or even top nine minutes.

Right. I mean, you don't want those guys sitting and not playing like you want those guys playing.

So when table gets back, you're one guy too many. And you have a dock and laffity already on the outside.

It could be easy to say, okay, your guys on the outside are dock, laffity and slagger, because I think skill for skill.

That would give you the most skilled lineup to have those three out, but I think then you're not sending down dock, because you want to have the ability to play him.

Right. Same thing with slagger because of his versatility.

I don't think they're sending down laffity because I think they're trying to do him. I would imagine do him a solid of.

If you don't want to be here anymore, eventually that maybe some team says here's future considerations for an NHL body that we need.

Who knows?

Are they wave him or they, yeah, they could wave him and say anyone can take you. That could be one thing.

But I think if they want to give him a little bit of that control because he's seemingly been, you know, the good soldier in this situation where.

He's playing like once every two weeks or whatever it is.

That's kind of the situation you're in, but then if you're sending a guy down to Rockford, they still need the help, right?

Because a lot of these guys that they expected to have from majority of the season aren't there. They're up here.

I think if you're looking at it, like Oliver Moore and Nick Lardis have worked well together, both in Rockford and up in Chicago.

Yeah.

But between the two, the guy that I think is more solidified in that you can't send him down category is Oliver Moore.

I agree.

And as much as it's been great to have Nick Lardis up here, I think if you're, if your.

If guys are getting knocked down the lineup because Tevo is back, I think you want to have Lardis in a position where.

He's.

Going to be a skill guy and being in the bottom six or fourth line rotation or whatever.

That doesn't benefit him at all.

So if you, if you, if he ends up being the guy that goes down, he goes to Rockford.

He plays 20 minutes. He's on the top line.

He was named an A H all star.

So if they're expecting Tevo to be back before the Olympic break, you could put Nick Lardis back down in Rockford.

Tears it up in Rockford and then he's there during the Olympic break.

And remember after the Olympics, you've got nine days to the deadline.

Right.

And I think Nick Lardis, if he is sent down, it's very temporary.

It is until, until they make a trade or someone gets hurt or whatever it might be.

But I just think it makes a lot of sense for him to be playing wherever he goes.

And someone said in the chat, William says, if Lardis did get sent down,

I don't think it would affect his confidence. I don't think so either.

I think he, I don't think he's very aware of his ability.

He's a very confident player.

He also knows he's here because injuries happened.

He's here because Conor Bedard and Frank Nazar got hurt and they needed an offensive player to come up here and help.

And I think he's done a really good job.

I've been really pleased with Nick Lardis and I think that he has looked further along in his development

and looks closer to being a full-time NHL player than I thought he would when he was called up.

So I'm not advocating for him to be sent down, but I'm saying if that's what Jeff Flash was thinking

and it sounded from the comments in the press conference that maybe that could be where they're leaning

because they want to do his best for development, I'm okay with it.

Because I do think, look, they could make a deal before the deadline.

If it comes to the point where Tevo's back in the expectations that is before the,

so the last game before the Olympics was February 4th, that's the last game before the break.

They expect him back before then.

If all things are everybody's healthy, maybe they do pull the trigger on a Jason Dickinson deal

or maybe they do wave 7 Lafferty and send him to Rockford for a while.

But then you got to figure out where is his spot going to be.

Nick Lardis, where is this spot going to be if your top six is fully intact with Tevo and Lardis

or with Tevo and Nazar and Bertuzzi and Burakowski and Badard and Green.

Maybe you start giving Lardis a look with Badard and move green down a little bit.

But I really like the way Ryan Green is played on the top line.

I think Jeff Flash was moving Ryan Green away.

Yeah, the numbers haven't been there for him, but the opportunities have.

And he's setting things up beautifully.

He just plays a really predictable style hockey and compliments that line really well.

So I don't know, it's a good problem to have.

Trade freeze is 2 p.m. Central time on February 4th.

Okay.

So that is the trade freeze and teams cannot practice between February 6th and the 16th.

So as far as Olympic time off and things like that and that pseudo trade deadline before them, that's the lead up to it.

Yeah, and there's only going to be a couple roster spots opened up through the trade deadline.

If they're moving Dickinson, if they're moving Murphy, if it's maybe it's McKayev who knows I would be in favor of keeping him around on a short term deal.

But maybe he wants to explore elsewhere who knows some of these guys.

So there's only so many roster spots that are going to be opened.

So I mean, I mean, largest would be a guy that I would say if Dickinson's gone, if McKayev's gone, that gives you enough opportunity to put him back up.

But also for how long?

Because you imagine Frandel will be here before the end of the season.

There's a lot of juggling to do as Jeff Blaschel said, like it's a good position to be in where you have to make these tough roster decisions.

And could we be in a place where it's just like, well, as time has gone on and as these players have been able to develop and stuff, do you find redundancies in your prospects?

We've seen Nolan already traded.

You just see like a log jam of talent and same style of players just kind of get stuck.

So maybe it could be.

Land and slager might eventually be a guy that's just phased out because versatile speedy grindy gritty forwards are good to have.

But you have a couple of those guys already could Colton doc eventually get phased out if he doesn't find if these guys don't find NHL.

Rolls for them consistently.

That could also be possible with power forwards like Bovair and Frandel and Spellis he coming into the fold.

This is a time where now it's kind of getting down to crunch time of like the numbers game and who's really on that path to being full-time NHLers.

Like you have to figure out you really have to figure out what you have.

This is the point of Davidson's rebuild is stockpile all these young talented guys and then you have too many of them, which is a good thing.

And then you figure out you kind of weed through and you find your best.

It's better to have too many than not enough.

That's for sure.

We're going to hit the brakes and again continue this conversation.

And I do want to talk a little bit about the election of stuff that Bovair was talking about too.

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All right.

So a lot of conversation in the chat about this topic about Nick Lardis going down or someone else going down.

A lot of people ask him about Andre Berkowski and why he is just automatically given a spot on the top line or the top six.

The point production is there.

I think he can be a very frustrating player because he'll go spans without really doing much to kind of turn the puck over a lot.

I am not, you know, I'm not one of the people that says he has to play every game in the top six.

I'd like to see a little more from him, honestly.

I mean, he's a guy that has the skill that fits in the top six.

But yeah, I agree the puck management and the turnovers have been pretty rough recently.

But I think getting him back into a groove with Bedard and with green, I think will be helpful for him.

Because that's when he was, I think, playing his most productive.

So you get a stretch of games without that group together.

Now you can get to see them a little bit more together.

See what comes of it.

There's no guys on this team that I feel are anchored into a spot, etched in stone, anything like that.

Other than, you know, at this stage counter Bedard is your top center option.

Other than that, the lineup can be as fluid as you want it to be.

But I think what we've seen from Jeff Blaschle that we haven't seen in the last two years,

especially with kind of, you know, with kind of Bedard is the consistency with who they're playing with.

And I think if you, if you want to, if you wanted to shake things up, you could move Berkowski around.

But if you want that consistency for Bedard, that predictability, having these guys play together more often is kind of the process that I can understand from Blaschle's standpoint.

I think it's a safe bet to that.

Conor Bedard is being asked about this.

We want to play with.

I would think so.

I would think he's got a little bit of a say.

I mean, I don't think he's in there drawing the lines himself.

But I think, you know, Blaschle's probably said to him, hey, you know, how are things working?

You and Andre feel like you're on the same page.

And Conor's a kind of guy that would confidently say what he believes about that.

So I think that does play a role.

Like Berkowski has 30 points in 43 games last year.

He had 37 points in 79 games.

So the production is up there for him.

He's getting more opportunities, getting more ice time, obviously, so that makes a difference.

I also think we do have to give a little bit of grace here to a new baby.

He does go home every night to his family and a crying infant and an exhausted wife.

And there's been illness going around the team.

There's been illness going around his house.

So is it an excuse?

Yes.

Is it probably valid?

Yes.

If he is not feeling 100% of Andre Berkowski right now, he'll be very much understandable.

So I'm going to give him a little bit of grace there.

But I just, I would like to see him even if the puck isn't going in.

I want to see him be more positively impactful game to game to game.

Yeah.

I mean, that's what that's what we've seen from Ryan Green.

Like the county stats are not jumping off the page, putting the puck in the back of the net.

It's not been his strong suit this season as a rookie.

But the chance generation has been there.

And the chemistry has been built with with Bedard.

And the responsibility is there being able to play both down the middle end on the wing.

Like that's you can have guys that can impact the game without necessarily getting on the stat sheet.

But in Berkowski's case, being a guy that's done it before in the past,

like you'd want him to be able to impact the game and finish those chances when he does create them.

And I think the turnovers thing too, I think that's got to tighten up.

But I think, again, game back to kind of that predictability and simplifying the game across the board is going to help this team.

But especially like when you have guys going through stretches where a lot of times the puck's coming off their stick

and it's going in the other direction, simplifying the game and having that mentality will cut that down.

Yeah, I think he's just, I think Andre Berkowski just kind of is what he is.

There's a reason he's moved from team to team to team.

He is a replacement level top six player who can put up some points, play with some speed, carry the puck.

But he's not the sort of guy that's going to majorly shift the impact of a team one way or the other.

On a better team, he's a good option as a second liner, a great option as a third liner.

And I think with this team, with what they're still operating with, he plays in your top six.

And he's signed through next season.

It's not a guy that's part of the long-term plans.

I wouldn't imagine he's not playing like it.

And you have to have players like that until more and largest and all these guys in front del and all that are ready to be put into those roles on a full-time basis.

If he's, you know, a de facto top six player for the rest of the season and next.

But then after next season, your top six is populated with all these prospects and all these kids and all these young talented players.

That's what you're building towards.

So I think at this stage, I know nothing is, there's no, you know, dagger in the heart of their playoff hopes.

But I think it's still an outside reach to think that they're going to be in the wild card chase.

So you're not trying to add, you're not trying to, you know, think about like, oh, how are we going to, you know, match, match lineups to go on a playoff push or anything like that.

Because even still fully healthy.

Like this team is still just feels just on the outside.

Yeah.

So I'm, I'm, which is, it burrow cost you to your top six. It's still fine.

Yeah. And it's a huge upgrade from where they've been.

Yeah.

And he was traded for Joe Valeno.

Yes.

Like exactly.

That's a huge upgrade.

And Breven says he could score a thousand points a year.

But when you negatively impact the games like he does with terrible puck management, the points are irrelevant.

So Jeff Flashle has talked about many times about their own internal metrics.

And he talks a lot about the pluses and minuses not in terms of the stat we all know and follow.

But it's positive impact on a play, negative impact on a play on a game, et cetera.

And it's something that they monitor closely as a team.

They must be seeing something from Burakowski that they really, really like.

I'm like, yeah, he turns the puck over a little more than we would like.

But I do think he has been a net positive this year.

I just want to see him.

And really like the whole team hasn't been scoring.

It's, it's not just him.

You know, we went back over it in the post game last game in the Hawks.

Like over the last few games have scored so few goals.

It's, it's hardly just him.

You had two against the Jets.

One was an empty netter.

You had two against the Bruins.

You had one against the Flames.

You had one against the Oilers.

You had three against the Partitors.

And one against the Caps.

All that after the 7-3 went over the Blues.

But if that all the offense dried up, they just have not been scoring goals.

So yeah, Burakowski hasn't been.

But no one has really been putting the puck in the net.

So it's kind of a team wide situation here.

And Frank Nazar coming back is going to give other teams

someone else that they have to prepare for.

Someone else they have to be aware of.

Someone else they have to defend.

And I don't know if you look up and down the Hawks roster offensively.

If aside from Bedard, there's really anyone like that that you have to know

at all times where this guy is.

I think that it's Bedard.

It's Nazar.

I could probably make an argument for Bertuzzi.

And maybe when he's playing well, Burakowski,

but Nazar certainly is number two on that list.

Yeah.

So I think it's going to open up.

It's even if Nazar himself isn't putting the puck in the net

or racking up the points.

I think that just his presence is going to help open up offense

for a lot of other players.

And I hope so because he could not come back at a better time.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, looking at, you know,

you're talking about like the internal data with the Hawks

and what they value.

And Jeff Blaschle obviously goes towards scoring chances.

This is from Natural Statric.

So in this conversation, it's the public model.

It's not the Black Hawk's internal model, which they value more.

Yeah.

But it's the public model.

And at five on five this season,

Andrii Burakowski is sixth amongst forwards in individual scoring chances

created per 60.

Six point five.

He is fifth in individual height danger chances score or chances

created per 60 amongst forwards.

Do you know who the top two in individual scoring chances

created per 60 amongst Black Hawk's forwards?

Because you're asking.

Because you're asking me, I'm going to think it's not the people

we think it is.

I'm going to say Ryan Green.

No.

Damn.

He is eighth.

Okay.

Individual scoring chances at five on five per 60 minutes played.

Well, let's see.

Maybe you're not throwing me off the cent.

Bedard is fourth.

Okay.

Tevo.

Fifteenth.

Yeah.

How about Denado?

Is it better than we think?

Seventh.

Burakowski is sixth.

Bertuzzi.

Third.

Is Nezar first?

Sezar is fifth.

Give it to me.

Number two, Nick Lardis.

Eight point eight in individual scoring chances created per 60.

Number one.

And then slaggered.

Oh, then it slaggered.

Nine point five individual scoring chances per 60 at five on five.

Now.

Lannis Lager has played 233 minutes at five on five.

Nick Lardis has played 183 minutes at five on five.

Tyler Bertuzzi has played 667 minutes at five on five.

And Conor Bordard has played 582 minutes at five on five.

So the total minutes are different.

But again, in the in the per 60 breakdown, it, you know,

it takes it kind of basically into a game by game average.

So I mean, for Burakowski, like he's your fifth and sixth best

forward in those categories.

And I think he's a guy that, that's, that's where you want him to be.

Like you want him to be one of the top guys that can be in those,

in those metrics.

And I think, again, the turnover thing, that's,

that's, that's one thing where simplifying the game,

decision making, think less.

Think less about what you're doing and, and play off more of that instinct

and that predictability.

I think the team is going to get back to that.

I hope they do.

Carolina, tomorrow is going to be a tough test.

That's a team that you, you're not going to dictate the game.

Carolina and Tampa back to back.

Yeah, you're not going to dictate the game in, in either of those games.

Right.

I hope the team plays like they did, or at least within that mentality,

like they did against Winnipeg, because they, they played that style

and you come away with a win.

All right.

We're going to hit the break zone one last time.

A couple of mailbag questions we've got standing by.

We've got to pay off a couple of super chats from last game that we missed

our bat on that.

And let's talk about this left shot thing when we come back on Super Jets.

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Before we get to the left, I see some chat talking about the rumor that Jason Dickinson would fetch a second and a prospect.

Incorrectly assigned to Elliott Friedman.

And the chat was actually Frank Saravali on the pregame show the other night.

And that's where we heard it first.

Yes.

We also referenced Kiefer Sherwoods deal.

And the Mason Marchment deal is kind of like somewhere between those.

So just real quick.

We're going to get into this on a mini pod later this week in longer form.

But the sharks traded a second-round pick and defenseman Cole Clayton to the connox for Kiefer Sherwood.

Cole Clayton.

Not really a prospect.

25-year-old defenseman.

Underapted five points in 33 games with the San Jose Barracuda.

So that was not a prospect prospect.

And I think Kiefer Sherwood had a higher market than Jason Dickinson will have.

Mason Marchment, the other one, got a second and a fourth in that trade.

So if you're talking in that kind of a range for Jason Dickinson.

Okay.

The second-round pick sounds great.

But I would just say when you hear a second and a prospect,

temper your expectations for what a prospect is.

Yeah.

I think if Jason Dickinson gets you a second-round pick plus,

that's a win.

Yeah.

That's a win.

Because that's a guy that a contender is going to say you're a rental.

You're going to play in our bottom six, maybe even fourth line.

You probably are going to be like a PK guy or you're going to be a defensive zone draw guy

and maybe you'll chip in offensively.

Like if a contender says that, they're not giving up much more than, you know,

what's being rumored out there.

So, you know, if the Hawks get a second-round draft pick from a contender,

it's probably in the 50s or early 60s potentially.

That's fine.

And then yeah, if it's another mid-round pick, it's always good to have picks

to use for trades on draft air or anything like that, moving up, moving down,

whatever you want to do.

I don't know how many more prospects they want.

That's the thing.

Because they have five rockers in the first two rounds this year's draft.

There are no contracts.

We're talking about, you know, it's already becoming a numbers game with the young guys.

I don't know how many more early 20s players you want to throw into the fire.

If they do, I mean, okay.

35.

They're not up against it with contenders.

44 contracts.

Yeah, they're not up against it really.

I mean, you got to think.

You're going to get a draft class in here.

Yeah.

And with contracts, like you're very likely giving one to Bovair.

Yes.

Celice Venacker.

Those guys already signed the way.

Yes.

Celice Venacker is signed.

Frontel is signed.

Frontel is signed.

Ludwinski Thompson.

Missyak Hayes.

And Sevoire signed through next year.

Venacker and Frontel through 2728.

Right.

Yeah.

So, yeah, moral becoming.

But anyway, just to throw a little note in there about that.

All right.

Left shot off.

So I had not really noticed what they were talking about with his shot.

I know that it feels like he should have way more goals than he has.

But the left shot of working with Brian Keen, the Hawks skating and skills coach.

Working on improving his shot technique.

I thought that was very interesting.

It's not something I had really, because when I see already shoot,

there's always a lot on it.

Yeah.

He is a powerful kid.

Yeah.

Whether it's, you know, his skating or a shot.

Like, there is a lot of power behind it.

I think that the good thing for him is working with a guy like Brian Keen

to work on refining that power and using it properly.

Can only be beneficial, because that's, I mean, that's been the narrative

with Lebshinov, basically, since he's been picked.

Just like, there's a lot of athleticism and raw tools there.

So now you got to sharpen them and make sure that they're, you know,

you're maximizing what those raw tools are.

So it's good to see that he's, you know, he's putting in the extra effort,

trying to find those different edges to the game that's going to make him even more effective.

And yeah, like, to use your shot more would be great.

Just having a bomb of a slap shot or something, that's wonderful.

But if it, if it's not effective, if it doesn't get anywhere, if it doesn't,

get to a dangerous area or get put on net more often than not, it's useless.

Well, the word the two that Blaschle used was deception, right?

Like, so if a, if a defenseman is lining up for a, a clapper from the point,

it's pretty easy to block.

Or you know where it's coming from.

That's one of the things, aside from the velocity and counterbidard shot,

is his ability to change the angle of it.

And that's why you kept hearing the term generational about his shot

because he did have that ability to get it off quickly from all of the different angles.

And you could see him trick goalies in the thinking it's coming from this angle,

but it's a few degrees to the left to right and it completely throws them off.

And even if it doesn't go in, it requires, how many times do we see goalies make saves on Blaschle?

Or they're like, like a shoulder up.

Yeah, or it's like a stick.

Like, it gets barely catches like that.

Yeah, but they're stick or stick.

Exactly, because that, that means that they're deceived by his shot.

And I think that's something they need to add to the left shot.

So, it's just an interesting thing to see the coaching staff catch quickly

and address right away.

All right, let's give these super chats real quick.

Well, really sorry that we didn't get these in in the post game show.

Just kind of lost track of time after a super long day.

Adrian sent us a $50 super chat.

Thank you, Adrian.

Saying that Dickinson goal was the goal of the year so far.

Thank you for the 50 bucks.

Adrian, it was up there.

And Brandon, yeah, Brandon's super chat just like every game it feels like he says

I was there for the last game as a hawk.

And was there for his return.

Taze will always be a hawk.

That is true.

Thank you, Brandon.

Yes, 100%.

Yeah, that's a can't say enough about that night and how well it was done by the hawks.

And yeah, just how much Taze got from the fans.

It was well deserved.

Very, very cool.

All right, let's get to some of these mental back questions, shall we?

How many do we have?

Like two or three?

We have four, but two of them are kind of the same question.

All right.

So Alex A. Swiss and Wendy City Hockey both have a similar question and track of mind.

It's about the Rangers, the not rebuilding, but retooling, but trading everybody,

but keeping everybody, Rangers, talking about Alex Lafernier, Alexis Lafernier.

And would he be someone that would make sense for the Rangers to trade,

to get cap flexibility, to get assets back, and for the hawks to maybe use as a

reclamation project, and as a mid-twenties forward,

who's got over 400 NHL games played.

So he's a veteran on this group, and be able to be serviceable.

So he is 24 years old.

He is signed at 7.45 million through 2031-32.

This is the year one of a seven-year extension.

If I'm the Rangers and I'm retooling, I'm not moving on from that contract.

You've locked yourself into Alexis Lafernier.

Right.

And I think you're better trying to see if you can get anything close to what you thought he was going to be.

Remember, he was in like the bedard, like number one overall, without a doubt conversation.

Yeah, the narrative, yeah.

That was the conversation from a couple of years before his draft.

He was getting compared to Sydney Cross.

Right. So there's something there.

Now maybe just New York is too much for him.

I don't know.

I don't want to put that on him.

They've also always been a veteran team.

So he's never really been given a huge opportunity.

And look, I'll admit I am not locked in on everything Rangers, so granted.

But I don't feel like he's been given the opportunity to be the guy there.

From a Hawks perspective, it would make sense.

Yeah.

Because he's in that age range where it fits the window.

He has a skill set that would be complimentary to a lot of the young guys that they have.

And he makes a contract that is, you know, it's fixed for seven years.

So you know how much you're paying for him.

And it for the near future.

It's a player that gets you to the cap floor that also is actively playing for your team.

Makes a lot of sense.

Yeah.

For the Rangers, it makes absolutely zero sense.

Because a good question that was brought up on the Steve Daniel podcast recently was,

what is the core?

Who are the core of the Rangers?

Beyond the veterans that you're likely trading.

That's a good question.

That's the core.

Who's the next core?

Their best players gave Perot, right?

So you need to build up a prospect system.

You need to build up a future.

We'll call it.

Cool.

Yeah, we'll.

A lot of years part of that core.

So if you're moving on from law from the year.

Who you invested in?

You made him the number one pick.

You gave him a lot of opportunities.

a lot of opportunities.

You didn't have to give them this big giant

seven-year investment extension.

So that, I mean, he's part of that group.

Yeah, they don't really have a young core at all.

Yeah.

So if I'm the Rangers.

Your goalies are a 40-year-old Jonathan Quick

and 30-year-old Igor Shasturkin.

Your youngest defenseman is Braden Schneider.

He's 24, oh, Scott Morrow is 23.

Yeah, but Schneider is probably,

you're probably hanging on to him.

I would think so.

You're locked, you're probably locked into Gavricov.

You just extended, what's his name?

Borgon.

Yeah.

You have Adam Fox.

And then up front, it's Gabe Perot, it's Cooley

and it's LaFernier, like that's your future

for the time being.

So I also feel like they're gonna be stuck

with JT Miller, JT Miller for a while.

Hey, that's the point.

If you're an NHL team, are you going anywhere

near JT Miller?

I wouldn't want him.

I'm not touching that with a 10-foot pole.

No, so I think if you're looking at the Rangers

as like, who makes sense to the Hawks, there's players there.

But they also need, they also because they're now

going into this retool, not a rebuild quote unquote,

they need those players too.

Boy, they might be better off.

They're kind of screwed.

Just doing, just doing what the Hawks did.

And I know that's hard.

It's a tough field of swallow for an original 16,

but there's no real way out of this

because they're not going to be bad enough

to get a generational stud draft pick

unless, I mean, maybe lottery balls fall a certain way

by mistake and they get one.

But then have it with LaFernier.

For a original six franchise to win the draft lottery.

Right, but it's just, I don't see a way out of this for them.

This is a team that said we're trying to win the Stanley Cup

and it's just not happening.

And there's, and even like they're really good,

like if you're saying like which Ranger has a ton of value,

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Who on that team has the most value in a trade?

It probably has been a jab, right?

He's 32, I'm not talking about for the Hawks.

I'm just talking about like overall,

who is the most valuable Ranger?

Probably.

Just while it's just turkey, would you?

That you would say doesn't fit the we are keeping him around

with the retool rebuild.

Yeah, it's advantage ad or maybe tro check.

Would be the top two guys that I would look at.

They're keeping Mr. Sturkin, yeah.

And they're keeping Adam Fox.

Right, so I mean, you could, yeah.

I think as far as pure value,

it's probably his advantage ad.

But again, he's locked in for a long time.

So at least it's cost controlled.

He's 8 million through 2930.

What are you buying the back nine of his advantage ad?

He's 32 now.

I mean, what?

39, or no, 38 to the end of that contract.

36 at the end of it.

36.

Yeah.

No, not really.

Tro check to me is interesting.

5.625 for this year in the next three.

So it'll be 35 when that deals over.

I mean, if the Hawks are looking to revamp their veterans,

get somebody you can get them to the cap floor.

You're moving on from Dickinson, probably.

You're maybe moving on from the KF.

You're probably moving on from Felino.

Vincent Tro check a 32.

That's a guy that can move up and down the line up.

Be a really solid player.

He wears the A for the Rangers.

That's a guy I would be interested in bringing.

But I feel like they can probably get more for him

from a contender who's looking at him as a final piece,

like a teammate Minnesota, who's already done a ton

to make their team good.

And one more big move could probably

get them over the hump to be a true contender.

I think if you're the Rangers though,

and you're moving a player like that,

you want to maximize your futures assets.

That's true.

Hawks are a team that have a lot.

They have a ton of draft face, they have a ton of prospects.

But the thing is, I don't think the Hawks

are in a position where they want

or necessarily need Vincent Tro check.

And when the team is supposed to be like,

you know, we're maxing out competitiveness.

He's at the end of that deal, where he's 34, 35 years old.

So.

But at that point, what does it say was five points?

Five point, yeah.

Yeah, the money doesn't.

That's not a lot of money.

The money doesn't hurt you because, like we were saying,

with LaFernier, like, you could always just buy it out.

That's a, but yeah.

But it's also it's a player that's actively

on your roster and in your lineup.

That costs 5.6.

It's not, you know, the Shay Weber-Ryan Ellis situation.

Mr. Hockey 99 says, do Mario and J think

Taves, I don't want your deal back in Chicago,

is far-fetched.

Yeah, I mean, I think the question

is does he have another year in him?

I don't know.

He does.

I don't think that's a good, they're going to do it

because they haven't done it with Patrick Kane.

They didn't do it.

You could bring them both night next year.

Sure.

You imagine.

Oh my god.

Yeah, I mean, I, it's not far-fetched.

It's just if you, if we've been paying attention

to Kyle Davidson, it just does not seem like that's a route.

He's going to go down.

One thing I like about Kyle Davidson

is he is not sentimental.

And you can keep trying to cling to the past

and keep doing this stuff, but like,

just let the new generation take hold, do their thing.

You don't need to bring that whole thing back.

And would it help them a little bit?

I think Kane would help them.

Kane still has something to tank.

I don't know how much Jonathan Taves has left.

And, yeah, you know, I don't know.

I just, I think it's OK to move on.

It's OK.

It was three Stanley cups.

It was great.

Jonathan Taves got his flowers twice now.

For everything he did with the Hawks,

he's going to get them for the rest of his life.

He will never buy another meal or drink in this town

as long as he lives.

He will have his number retired.

He will be an ambassador.

He'll have a role in the organization if he wants it.

It's fine.

I just don't need him on the ice for the Hawks anymore.

It's fun as it would be.

And as much as it would warm my heart

to see Jonathan Taves pull the sweater over his head.

Again, it doesn't accomplish anything hockey-wise.

Do you want to be having the conversation next year of,

I think we need to start scratching Jonathan Taves?

Exactly.

I don't.

And yeah, it's, it would be fun, yes,

but we got to think about this in hockey terms.

And then, yeah, I can't see the name.

Yeah, Taves and Kane, they're going to retire as Hawks.

Sure, like that'll, that'll be what happens.

Sure, I'm sticks, so.

Yeah, I think a one-day contract.

I mean, you also don't need to do that.

Does it matter?

Does a one-day contract mean anything?

You know, now they officially,

they're retiring as Black Hawks, because like, you know,

did Bobby Holden sign one of those?

People still think of him as a Black Hawk?

Yeah, you know, I don't know.

It just seems, they'll probably do it because it's fun.

But like, it gives you a day to celebrate those.

Don't worry, Kane and Taves are Black Hawks.

They will be for life, and those numbers

will be up there for the rest of eternity.

So, yeah, do we have another Malvag?

We should get two before we wrap up.

Two more quick ones, I think.

All right.

From Fetherhead 88, says, could the Black Hawk's package

either Murphy, Dickinson, or both,

and say two of our three second-round picks

to get another first-round pick from a playoff contender this year?

We have enough prospects.

We have enough prospect volume.

I would rather see them push those up the draft order

for fewer total picks, especially in a deeper draft

like this years.

If you're packaging Murphy and Dickinson together,

you've got to find a team that can take on $8 million.

I don't think that that's going to be the case.

I think you maximize your value by keeping those two deals

separate.

You could retain on them.

You could.

They have two retention slots open.

So that would be, what is Murphy?

4.4, so that's 2.2.

Dickinson is 4.2, so that'd be 2.1.

So you're looking at 5.3 million for two really good players.

2.3.

4.3, sorry.

Yeah.

Yeah, you could do that.

I just don't think.

I mean, look, that makes it.

If you're a playoff team, that makes you a lot better

to add counter Murphy and Jason Dickinson.

It makes you deeper, makes you tougher, much stronger,

defensively, but that is a lot of, even

with the retention, that is a lot of cap space to take up.

Look, I think that if you want to get back in the first round,

Kyle Davidson has the ammunition to do so.

He's got the later round picks.

He has traded up into the first, I think,

every year since he's been GM or traded up.

First year, he got three first round picks when he had zero.

Yeah, zero, exactly.

He didn't trade back into the first round in 23.

He tried to move up in the first round to get all over more,

but then he fell into his lap.

That just happened anyway.

Yeah, but then in 24 and 25, he added a first round pick,

leading up to the draft.

Michael Evans Spector, I don't know what that means,

says Dickinson and Murphy to Colorado

for Gavin Brinley, Jack Jury, and a third.

Yes, great.

I don't think Colorado is interested in that.

That'd be amazing.

I mean, I don't know.

I think they're similar.

Was that?

I think Gavin Brinley and Jack Jury

are very, very similar.

They're very similar in Murphy, so.

I think they'd get lost in the shuffle eventually

of the Hawks Forward prospects.

I don't know how many.

But I'm talking about two guys that are walking free agents

for two pretty high-end prospects that make your prospect

pull better and it makes other prospects

tradable if you want to.

And I don't know, I would do that in a heartbeat.

Those are two legitimate prospects.

Yeah, I don't care if you have too many,

then trade them, then trade somebody.

Yeah, I just, I think if you're trying to get picks

to move up into the first round, you already have enough

to do it.

So I don't know if, yeah, I don't know.

I think at that point, you're running

into a lot of redundancy.

And then, and then your trade, who do we know in the heart

system is better than trade more prospect?

Did trade more prospects, was that?

Forward-wise, who do we think is better than Drury

and Brindley?

I think probably Frandell.

Frandell.

But that's about as far as I'm willing to go with the guys

I'm assured are going to be better and knows to.

Yeah.

Sure.

I just, I don't know.

I think more and the largest are showing.

They're in the conversation.

You know, they're showing a lot of promise.

Ryan Green is definitely getting more opportunity

and showing more than I think we expected.

I think the ceiling is high for a guy like Nestor Soul.

I think Boivere's had an injury year,

but I think still the raw tools that are there

going to make him probably a top six guy.

I don't know if Drury or Brindley are long-term top six

guys.

I don't know.

I think I don't think you want to having prospect depth

is a good thing, obviously, but having just ways

too many guys to where you're like, then I think you get

into a spot where you're too overloaded with young players

and you don't know what to do with them.

And then you're hurting guys because now you're

stashing them in the AHL when they probably could be

in the NHL, and it's not doing you any good

that they're down there.

But those are the most valuable pieces you have as a GM is.

Cancer off as well.

Yeah, I can't.

Cancer off is true.

I'll take them over them.

But in like that guy, I'll access sleeping

on Nestor Soul, maybe.

But we just don't know he has.

You know, he's having a great year.

Look great in the world.

Junior is like, of course, and we all have high hopes

and really like Nestor Soul as a prospect.

We just don't know what he's going to be when he's a pro.

We still know it all over more.

Nick Clark is going to be his pro.

Or for a no or any of these guys.

So I think we just have to caution

while we feel good about most everything happening

in the prospect system.

Very few of these are guarantees.

He drops something.

Sure did.

All right, well, right on the new Xfinity Loft rug.

It's coffee proof.

And you know what?

The rug, like Xfinity, knew that was going to happen.

Saw the problem before it even occurred and it fixed it.

And the rug is the same price for five years.

Yeah, it's a clean.

Just like Xfinity.

Let's clean that up.

All right, we're going to wrap the show up.

So Mario can clean up.

We will be back tomorrow pregame.

We haven't done a pregame show in forever.

Oh, wow.

What time's the game tomorrow?

Let's look.

I don't want to have to work.

Yeah, 5.30 pre.

That'll be fun.

And then remember Friday's game at home against Tampa

6 p.m. ESPN game.

So get ready for that broadcast.

We'll talk to them.

We'll talk to you tomorrow and Friday under CHTO BlackHox

podcast.