The Blackhawks have now lost both of their games to start the home stretch of the 2025-26 season, and life doesn’t get easier. They boarded a plane to Utah to face the Mammoth this afternoon after scoring only once in Denver last night. After leaving lines alone for a lot of the early stages of the season (when things were going fairly well), the Blackhawks are now throwing stuff at the wall to see what might work seemingly every game. And nothing’s clicking.
Seemingly every line the Blackhawks skate Tyler Bertuzzi on is effective this year. For all of the reasons you would want to spread out the offense, Bertuzzi being separated from the top line makes sense. But… there are still too many misses. Oliver Moore struggled when he initially came up, but started driving offense when he was moved to center. He’s spent the past two games on the wing with Frank Nazar as his center.
Jeff Blashill: "We need more depth scoring, for sure. We were close to having a lot of chances, and we just didn't handle the puck great. We could've had probably three or four 3-on-1s, and we just mishandled them."
— Ben Pope (@BenPopeCST) March 1, 2026 André Burakovsky was on Connor Bedard‘s line again last night. And stayed there. When asked after the game about trying someone else in that spot with Bedard, Blackhawks head coach Jeff Blashill said there were some analytics they liked with Burakovsky’s game in Nashville. My eye test tells me his analytics might look good because Bedard’s been so damn good the last two games. He hasn’t been good in a while and I wouldn’t mind him moving down the lineup for a bit. Scott Powers and Ben Pope reported the following teams had scouts in Denver to watch the Blackhawks and Avs last night: Los Angeles (two), Dallas, Vancouver, Buffalo, Vegas, Toronto, Utah, Tampa, Montreal. Obviously the Hawks are in Utah this afternoon, but Vegas, Toronto and Montreal were frequent visitors to the United Center during a busy month of home games for the Hawks. Good stuff here from Ben on the young Blackhawks trying to find the energy they had when they joined the NHL roster last year to finish this season strong. It’s worth noting — again — that this is the first professional season for Moore, Ryan Greene and Sam Rinzel. It’s the first full NHL season for Nazar and Artyom Levshunov. Blashill has said there’s an expectation that young players in these situations will “hit the wall” at some point, but the test is how they battle through that fatigue.Ryan Greene was "running on fumes" before the Olympics; now he's rejuvenated. He stood out in practices the past week and played well in Nashville. He's a Blackhawks player to watch. I think his development could take off.More on that in this story: t.co/nOZuxcZbk6
— Ben Pope (@BenPopeCST) February 28, 2026 Rinzel wasn’t in the lineup last night, and the Blackhawks called it an illness. Kevin Korchinski entered the lineup. He didn’t get much ice time, in large part because of the amount of special teams. Blashill said before the game that Wyatt Kaiser will not join the Blackhawks on this trip; Blashill said he was a maybe to join the team at some point. Blashill said Kaiser will practice fully on Thursday, however, so he might be ready to return Friday night against the Canucks — hours after the trade deadline. Jeff Marek was in Brantford for their Hall of Fame ceremony on Friday night. His description of Blackhawks prospect Marek Vanacker after watching him for a night: “Really smart player. Good skater, hands. Hawks have a good one.” How about a short-handed goal on Saturday night from AJ Spellacy? Talk about shot out of a cannon! He added an assist in the third period; his short-handed goal stood up as the game-winner as well. Spellacy’s hot right now, with two goals and three assists and having won 12 of 24 faceoffs over his past three games.Saturday night short-handed for #Blackhawks prospect AJ Spellacy for @SpitsHockey pic.twitter.com/vBb6z5F7q1
— Bleacher Nation Blackhawks (@BN_Blackhawks) March 1, 2026 Here’s an exciting look at Anton Frondell finishing his 17th goal of the season off a nice power move and collecting his own rebound for the score.#Blackhawks prospect Anton Frondell follows up on his own rebound for his 17th goal of the season!pic.twitter.com/jRMEFWgWcT
— Talkin’ Hawkey (@TalkinHawkey) February 28, 2026 In the NCAA on Saturday night, Václav Nestrašil picked up an assist for UMass. Here’s a short-handed goal from Julius Sumpf to get Providence on the board.Here's a look at Sumpf's shorthanded tally, his fourth goal of the season that gave us a lead in the second period. t.co/zDd2wXzOq3 x @ESPNPlus t.co/BUNqQRDmTT pic.twitter.com/9WqqXFJ5NM
— PC Men's Hockey (@FriarsHockey) March 1, 2026 Staying with Providence, here’s John Mustard‘s 15th goal of the season from last night. This was the game-winner for the Friars.Saturday night from #Blackhawks prospect John Mustard for @FriarsHockey pic.twitter.com/hNQYiLFwmC
— Bleacher Nation Blackhawks (@BN_Blackhawks) March 1, 2026 Some trade deadline chatter, starting with a report on the Canadiens exploring the market for defensemen from Marco D’Amico at RG Media. Here’s what he said about Montreal potentially having interest in Connor Murphy:Connor Murphy is another who could make sense, though he may be a little more costly, given his rental status and being in the prime of his career. He eats a lot of minutes for the Chicago Blackhawks and is a prime penalty killer who likes to throw his body.
Murphy is the defenseman I’d be least sure of, as I’ve heard that there is interest in his services from a few contenders.
That second paragraph is the key: “a few contenders” are interested in Murphy. Again, while lots of fans in Chicago might not understand/appreciate what Murphy brings to the table, a big, physical, strong penalty killing right-handed defenseman as a pure rental — with the Blackhawks being able to retain half of his contract — makes him incredibly attractive when others veteran defensemen on the market still have remaining term on their deals that might limit the market of teams looking for defensemen. Frank Seravalli dropped his updated trade target list on Saturday. He has Murphy at No. 8 overall (third-ranked RHD), with fellow Blackhawks Jason Dickinson (No. 17) and Ilya Mikheyev (No. 25) also making the list.#Canucks Tyler Myers appears to be warming up to a move. Can Vancouver and #TexasHockey make a deal? #FlyTogether also in the mix.New Top 50 Trade Targets ? board: t.co/QZqrVihzJp
— Frank Seravalli (@frank_seravalli) February 28, 2026 And now here’s Taige Harding throwing hands in Rockford last night.Hershey Bears, meet Taige Harding t.co/hfoSAgCJUO pic.twitter.com/iPY26rnh8e
— Rockford IceHogs (@goicehogs) March 1, 2026 The Los Angeles Kings pushed their chips in before the Olympics, making the big trade to land — and then extend — Artemi Panarin. And then injuries started hammering their roster, starting with Kevin Fiala’s season ending with an injury at the Olympics. On Saturday they found out forward Andrei Kuzmenko is joining the list on IR after having knee surgery. Also on Saturday: they had two scouts watching the Blackhawks and Avalanche…Forward Andrei Kuzmenko underwent successful surgery to repair a torn meniscus. He has been placed on injured reserve (IR) and is listed as week-to-week.Additionally, defenseman Angus Booth has been recalled from the @ontarioreign (AHL).: t.co/sBO3Y4PGsK pic.twitter.com/dQ22wfxHmD
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