Calgary Flames @ Chicago Blackhawks 7:30PM Central/6:30 Mountain CSN Chicago/RSN
THE BUZZ
The Blackhawks newfound juju gets put to the test tonight in a game that has letdown written all over it—coming off a huge road win last night against a strong Blues team, facing a 6-11-1 Flames team on home ice.
Since it’s fair to say that after a mediocre start in the highly competitive Western Conference, the Hawks playoff hopes will be highly impacted by the next several games, this is one Chicago needs to show up for and leave it all on home ice, before embarking on the long Circus road trip.
The Flames last game was an OT win in Washington Monday night. They can easily duplicate that in the UC tonight.
PROJECTED LINEUPS
Calgary
Gaudreau Monahan Hudler Bennett Backlund Frolik Colborne Stajan Jones Ferland Grant Bollig
Giordano Brodie Russell Hamilton Engelland Wideman
Ramo
Chicago
Dano Toews Hossa Panarin Anisimov Kane Shaw Kruger Teravainen Mashinter Kero Garbutt
Keith Hjalmarsson Van Riemsdyk Seabrook Daley Rozsival
Darling
I’ll recap tomorrow.
JJ