One week ago, the Blackhawks came back from a three-goal deficit to blow the doors off the Anaheim Ducks in Chicago. The game was chippy. The two teams were chirping each other the entire 60 minutes. And the Blackhawks let them know what the final score was as they left the ice.
One week later, Joel Quenneville may have dusted off his Michael Jordan “and I took that personally” meme collection and got his team ready to play. The Blackhawks didn’t get off the bus, and the Ducks didn’t take their foot off the gas. The result: one of the most thorough butt kickings in the NHL this season. “Boat raced” feels like an understatement for how badly the Blackhawks got whipped yesterday.
The Blackhawks' 12.0 expected goals percentage at 5v5 tonight was the second lowest of any NHL team in a game this season, according to Natural Stat Trick. They also finished with the lowest 5v5 scoring chance percentage and tied for worst high-danger percentage.
— Scott Powers (@ByScottPowers) December 8, 2025 How bad was this weekend? Historically bad — for the Blackhawks and the NHL.FINAL: Ducks 7, Blackhawks 1First time since 1951 that the Hawks have lost by 6+ goals in consecutive games.First time any NHL team has done so on consecutive nights since the Atlanta Thrashers in November 2000.
— Ben Pope (@BenPopeCST) December 8, 2025 Stray thought I had last night before the game even started: if there was ever a time to think about abandoning the 11-7 model, maybe last night would have been the time with Teuvo Teräväinen coming back into the lineup with a full cage and a swollen face. He skated 15:29 in the game and was minus-three. He spent 4:02 of that ice time killing penalties — time that could have been given to one of Sam Lafferty or Landon Slaggert. Speaking of Slaggert, the Blackhawks brought him back up from Rockford on Nov. 12. He played in five games in the first two weeks he was back in the NHL. He hasn’t dressed for a game since No. 26. At this point, if you’re only going to dress 11 forwards, why carry 13? Get him some ice time in Rockford. The IceHogs could use another good player and he’s gathering dust in Chicago.Teuvo Teravainen is wearing a full cage after taking a puck to the mouth and losing a few teeth on Thursday in Los Angeles. #Blackhawks pic.twitter.com/iJUnmPLcB7
— Charlie Roumeliotis (@CRoumeliotis) December 8, 2025 For as bad as this weekend was, I have a request of Blackhawks fans. And it’s something I’ve been saying since July. We all need to employ some patience. There are going to be clunkers and bad nights. This Blackhawks team exceeded expectations for long enough that teams aren’t going to overlook them on the schedule any more. And they’re good enough that they’re going to win a few games they probably shouldn’t this year. But, the flip side of that is there will be teams that put it on them and don’t take their foot off the gas because the Blackhawks have shown the ability to come back. Don’t throw the whole thing out because of two bad games. With that in mind, if you’re going to jump into my replies with something to the effect of “what does Jason Dickinson do here?” I really cannot help you. As I said in the postgame piece and on social, pointing a finger at one individual after those two games is lying to yourself. Trying to make one person a scapegoat is lazy. I’m not specifically defending Dickinson here; that was an actual question I got on Twitter (an embarrassing one at that). One week ago, we were talking playoff odds. This morning, people are offering to buy one-way plane tickets for guys. This Blackhawks team is somewhere in the middle, folks. Hockey Canada will name its preliminary roster for the 2026 World Junior Championship today. Scott Wheeler from The Athletic tweeted a list of names he heard received invitations on Sunday. Blackhawks prospects Sacha Boisvert and Marek Vanacker were noted as not having received in invite. Vanacker being left home would be extremely disappointing; he leads the OHL with 24 goals. Of course Canada left Nick Lardis home, too, and look at how that worked out for them… Václav Nestrašil is on the preliminary WJC roster for Czechia. He scored an empty-net goal for UMass in a 2-0 win on Sunday afternoon. In the OHL on Sunday, Jack Pridham had an assist to help Kitchener beat Guelph 5-4.BLEACHER NATION: Go Ad Free | Subscribe to the BN Newsletter
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