I’m not breaking any significant news in writing the Blackhawks are young — especially at center. Frank Nazar is 22, and now has 138 regular-season NHL games on his resume. He’s dealt with some injuries, both at Michigan after he was drafted and since he turned pro, but has climbed into a role as a key member of the Blackhawks’ core group.
Nazar is a skilled player who plays with a lot of pace, something that’s common in recent Blackhawks draft classes. He plays a defensively responsible game as well. That versatility has led to Nazar being used in a number of different roles against a wide range of competition to start this season.
There have been times when Nazar has skated on a line with Patrick Kane and Oliver Moore in more of an offensive role. In other games, he’s been deployed in more of a defensive role against top offensive players on the other side. There’s a nuance to flipping from being focused on a defensive assignment to driving offense on a line with someone like Kane. And those responsibilities and changing linemates require some time and a lot of information to perform well.
Taking in a lot of information to play a role effectively is a big part of the learning curve in the NHL for a young player — if a player’s role is fairly consistent. When the role evolves and changes frequently, the amount of pre-work being done increases.
I asked Nazar if playing those different roles is tough as a player who’s still early in his NHL career.
“It’s definitely not easy,” he said. “It’s a lot of thinking and a lot of new information that comes in that you’ve got to process. Really I think it comes down to the main aspects of playing hockey are just compete, work hard, make plays, execute. That’s really a huge thing in our system. Anyone can play anywhere. Forward could play D, right? D could play forward. So I think that’s a big part is just knowing where each guy should be and anybody could play anywhere.
“It’s definitely a lot of information that you got to take in, but I don’t want to shy away from it. That’s exactly what I want to do. And that’s where I’ve played basically my whole life … I’ve played any role that’s been given to me in any spot. I take a lot of pride in that.”
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The Blackhawks have so many players who have played with high-pedigree programs in and won. Whether it’s representing their country in a World Junior Championship, World Championship or the Olympics or playing in the Memorial Cup playoffs in the CHL or at a high level for a top-tier college program, many of the players have won somewhere else — and been a big part of that winning.
Nazar is one of those guys. He was a Big Ten champion at Michigan, won a silver and a gold at the World Juniors and was a leading scorer for the USA at the World Championships in 2025 — when the Americans won gold for the first time in 92 years. I asked Nazar if he — and other players — think about those experiences and the mindset that went into
“I actually think about that a lot, especially during these hard times,” Nazar said. “I’m like, man, World Juniors, men’s Worlds, Big Ten, all these championship teams that I’ve been a part of and what these other guys have done too. It’s definitely a thing you look back and you’re like, okay, what can we try to bring more from teams like that where we’ve won and what is our team missing or something that we can try to bring? And I know a lot of guys are thinking about that.
“Obviously it’s not something that’s just like you throw out to a couple guys and it’s like, boom, now everyone’s changed. But it’s work in progress. Things happen but we definitely have confidence within the team and during spurts like this that we go out our next game and it’s like, ‘Okay, look at what we have done. We’re capable of doing it.’ Now let’s just go do it.”
The good news is the number of players on the Blackhawks’ roster — and in the pipeline — who have succeeded gives them, collectively, a lot of past experience to lean on in these tough times.
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