Tonight's game will feature a new top line forward for the Blackhawks
With injuries piling up and key members of the team out of the lineup, the Chicago Blackhawks' season is spiraling downward.
Nick Foligno, Taylor Hall, Connor Bedard, Andreas Athanasiou, and Seth Jones are among them.
It is important to remember that Connor Bedard, Taylor, and Nick Foligno were once on the 1st line together.
Blackhawks lines in morning skate vs. Oilers have Mrazek starting, Raddysh and Anderson back, Pitlick here:
Pitlick-Kurashev-Raddysh
Blackwell-Dickinson-Anderson
Reichel-Entwistle-Guttman
Katchouk-Sanford-Donato
Tinordi-Murphy
Vlasic-Megna
Korchinski-Zaitsev
Mrazek pic.twitter.com/mDrmNPfrC6� Ben Pope (@BenPopeCST) January 9, 2024
In tonight's game, Coach Luke Richardson will debut a new look for the 1st line.
The new acquisition, Rem Pitlick, will play with Philipp Kurashev and Taylor Raddysh on the first line.
With the team out of contention this season, Richardson will get to see what Rem Pitlick is capable of with top-line minutes tonight.
Kurashev slots in at 1C, which Dickinson held earlier in the weekend, so this is another chance Kurashev will have to prove himself.
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