The Blackhawks enter Tuesday night’s game in Winnipeg with the No. 1 penalty kill in the NHL at 85.7 percent. For a team with so many young players, that’s a terrific achievement… so far. But a seismic change to that group happened on Monday afternoon.
We all knew the Blackhawks were going to trade Connor Murphy, but now he’s gone with 22 games left in the regular season. He had skated 177:17 short-handed this year, the top total PK ice time among all Blackhawks defensemen.
To date, here’s the total short-handed ice time for remaining right-handed defensemen on the Blackhawks’ roster:
Louis Crevier — 104:33 in 57 games Artyom Levshunov — 16:00 in 55 games Sam Rinzel — 9:22 in 32 gamesRinzel has worked some with the second unit in practices since he was recalled, but Crevier is going to see his role elevated even more now that Murphy is gone. It’s going to be interesting to see if that change impacts his 5-on-5 ice time at all.
There will be more questions if/when the Blackhawks trade one/both of Jason Dickinson and Ilya Mikheyev. The Blackhawks have four forwards who have skated more than 100 minutes short-handed this season: Mikheyev, Teuvo Teräväinen, Dickinson and Ryan Greene. We have seen a more steady integration of Landon Slaggert onto the PK in recent weeks, however, and both Oliver Moore and Frank Nazar have killed penalties with at times this season.
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