The Chicago Blackhawks take on the Utah Hockey Club tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.
BLACKHAWKS (17-33-7) at UTAH (25-24-9)
9 p.m. ET; Utah16, CHSN
Blackhawks projected lineup
Frank Nazar — Connor Bedard — Tyler Bertuzzi
Teuvo Teravainen — Nick Foligno — Ilya Mikheyev
Landon Slaggert — Colton Dach — Ryan Donato
Patrick Maroon — Philipp Kurashev — Craig Smith
Alec Martinez — Seth Jones
Alex Vlasic — Connor Murphy
Nolan Allan — Ethan Del Mastro
Arvid Soderblom
Petr Mrazek
Scratched: Lukas Reichel, TJ Brodie
Injured: Laurent Brossoit (knee), Jason Dickinson (lower body)
Status report:
Dach is expected to play after being recalled from Rockford of the American Hockey League on Monday. … Bertuzzi and Nazar will move up to the top line with Bedard.
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Utah projected lineup
Clayton Keller — Logan Cooley — Nick Schmaltz
Dylan Guenther — Barrett Hayton — Michael Carcone
Lawson Crouse — Jack McBain — Josh Doan
Alexander Kerfoot — Kevin Stenlund — Nick Bjugstad
Mikhail Sergachev — John Marino
Olli Maatta — Sean Durzi
Ian Cole — Michael Kesselring
Karel Vejmelka
Connor Ingram
Scratched: Mattias Maccelli, Liam O’Brien, Nick DeSimone
Injured: Robert Bortuzzo (lower body)
Status report:
Utah is expected to dress the same 18 skaters used in a 2-1 win against the Vancouver Canucks on Sunday, but there will be some game-time decisions among the forwards because of injuries, coach Andre Tourigny said Tuesday.
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