Projected Lineups for Blackhawks vs Ducks – 3/1/25

The Chicago Blackhawks take on the Anaheim Ducks tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

BLACKHAWKS (17-35-7) at DUCKS (26-25-7)

10 p.m. ET; Victory+, CHSN, KCOP-13

Blackhawks projected lineup

Andreas Athanasiou β€” Connor Bedard β€” Tyler Bertuzzi
Landon Slaggert β€” Frank Nazar β€” Colton Dach
Teuvo Teravainen β€” Ryan Donato β€” Ilya Mikheyev
Patrick Maroon β€” Lukas Reichel β€” Craig Smith

Ethan Del Mastro β€” Seth Jones
Alex Vlasic β€” Alec Martinez
Connor Murphy β€” TJ Brodie

Arvid Soderblom
Petr Mrazek

Scratched: Wyatt Kaiser

Injured: Laurent Brossoit (knee), Jason Dickinson (lower body), Nick Foligno (back), Philipp Kurashev (hand)

Status report

The Blackhawks did not hold a morning skate Saturday. … Foligno and Kurashev, each a forward, is day to day; each was injured a 7-5 loss at the Vegas Golden Knights on Thursday and missed practice Friday. … Athanasiou and Kaiser, a defenseman, each was recalled from Rockford of the American Hockey League on Friday. … Athanasiou practiced on the top line with Bedard and Bertuzzi, and Kaiser rotated on the third pair with Murphy and Brodie. … Defenseman Nolan Allan was returned to Rockford on Friday.

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Ducks projected lineup

Frank Vatrano β€” Ryan Strome β€” Troy Terry
Mason McTavish β€” Leo Carlsson β€” Alex Killorn
Cutter Gauthier β€” Isac Lundestrom β€” Sam Colangelo
Ross Johnston β€” Jansen Harkins β€” Brett Leason

Jackson LaCombe β€” Radko Gudas
Pavel Mintyukov β€” Jacob Trouba
Brian Dumoulin β€” Drew Helleson

John Gibson
Lukas Dostal

Scratched: Olen Zellweger

Injured: Brock McGinn (knee), Robby Fabbri (upper body)

Suspended: Trevor Zegras

Status report

Gibson will return and start after being unavailable the past three games because of an upper-body injury. … The Ducks reassigned goalie Oscar Dansk to San Diego of the American Hockey League on Friday. … Zegras, a forward, will serve the final game of his three-game suspension for interference on Detroit Red Wings forward Michael Rasmussen in a 5-4 overtime loss on Feb. 23.

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