PREVIEW: Blackhawks, Devils Square Off at United Center

TIME: 7 p.m.
TV: ESPN2 | RADIO: WGN-720-AM | STREAM: Watch ESPN
The Blackhawks wrap up a four-game homestand on Saturday night as the New Jersey Devils visit the United Center in the final weekend home game of the season (
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Jonathan Toews is expected to return to the Blackhawks lineup for the first time since Jan. 28 after dealing with symptoms of Long COVID and Chronic Immune Response Syndrome.

VS. NEW JERSEY

Chicago has points in four of their last six against the Devils (3-2-1) and are 5-3-0 over their last eight home contests against the club … Tyler Johnson has points in six-straight games against New Jersey (5G, 5A), with goals in five straight between Oct. 30, 2018 - Jan. 12, 2020 … Seth Jones has six assists over his last five games against New Jersey, including two multi-point efforts … Andreas Athanasiou has five points (2G, 3A) over his last seven contests against the Devils.
Assistant Coach Kevin Dean played for the Devils from 1994-99, playing in 198 career games … He also served as an assistant coach for the Lowell Devils (currently Utica Comets) of the American Hockey League from 2006-10.

TAYLOR MADE

Taylor Raddysh matched a career high with two assists on Thursday night against St. Louis … It's the third time in his career that Raddysh has earned two assists in a game and the first since Jan. 14 against Seattle (1G, 2A) … Thursday's tilt marked Raddysh's sixth multi-point game of the season.
He logged a four-game point streak (6G, 1A) from March 8 - 14 … The streak tied a career high, while it marked his third four-game streak of the campaign … He also notched points in four-straight from Oct. 23 - 29 (2G, 2A) and Jan. 12 - 19 (2G, 4A) … Raddysh scored three goals against Boston on March 14 for his first career hat trick.

MR. JONES AND ME

Seth Jones posted an assist and a game-high 25:35 of ice time against the Blues on Thursday and now has assists in two of his last three games (2A) … The defenseman logged a threegame goal streak (4G) from March 2 - 6 … His streak matched a career long, while he is just the fifth Blackhawks defensemen in the past 30 years to record a goal streak of at least three games and the first since Eric Gustafsson (3 games) in 2018-19 … Jones leads all current Blackhawks with 23 assists and ranks second with 33 points (10G, 23A) this season.

TYLER, THE CREATOR

Tyler Johnson notched two points (1G, 1A) in Thursday's contest for his sixth multi-point game of the season … Johnson has now scored goals in back-to-back games (2G, 1A), while he's earned four points (2G, 2A) over his last five games … This is the first time he's lit the lamp in consecutive games since the 2020-21 season when he scored goals from Feb. 13 - 15.
Johnson enters Saturday's matchup having recorded seven points (2G, 5A) in his last 11 games, including posting a three-game assist streak (3A) from March 10 - 14 … It was the second time he's logged points in threestraight games this season, having also done so from Jan. 17 - 21 (1G, 3A)