PREVIEW: Blackhawks Host Avalanche for First Time This Season

TIME: 7:30 p.m. CT
TV: N/A | RADIO: WGN 720 AM & TUDN 1200 AM | STREAM:
ESPN+
and Hulu
The Blackhawks wrap up a brief two-game homestand on Tuesday night as the Colorado Avalanche visit the United Center for the first of three meetings this month. The two teams opened the 2021-22 season against each other back on Oct. 13, a game the Avalanche took 4-2.

TEAM RECORDS

• CHI: 11-17-4, 26 PTS
• COL: 18-8-2, 38 PTS

HOW TO WATCH

Can't make it to the United Center? Tuesday's game is the third of of six games this season broadcast exclusively on ESPN+ and Hulu. The only way to watch the Blackhawks take on the Avalanche is with a subscription to either streaming platform.
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You can listen to the Blackhawks radio broadcast on WGN Radio with Jason Ross Jr. and Caley Chelios on the call. Pregame coverage begins at 7 p.m.

VS. COLORADO

Connor Murphy and Dominik Kubalik recorded goals for Chicago in the season-opening loss on Oct. 13. Calvin de Haan finished with a season-high six blocked shots and Jonathan Toews won 16 of 24 faceoffs (67 percent) that night.
Chicago and Colorado will wrap their season series later this month with two games in five days, in Denver on Jan. 24 and then in Chicago on Jan. 28.
Patrick Kane tallied his first career NHL goal and added two assists on Oct. 19, 2007 against the Avalanche at the United Center.

HELPING HENRIK

Forward Henrik Borgstrom picked up an assist for a second straight game on Sunday night against the Flames and pushed his personal point streak to three games (1G, 2A) dating back to Dec. 9 against the Canadiens. Borgstrom missed four straight games with a non-COVID illness after scoring his second of the season in Montreal.
His point streak comes in three straight games playing between Patrick Kane and Alex DeBrincat on the Blackhawks' top line.
"I played with Kaner and Brinks back in Montreal before I got sick and though we did a pretty good job there," he said. "Those two guys are so skilled, I'm just trying to contirbute in any way."

ON THE DOT

Jonathan Toews is fifth in the NHL winning 59.4 percent of his faceoffs this season (min. 400 draws). The figure matches his second highest single-season total (59.4% during the 2011-12 season) and trails only the 2012-13 campaign when Toews won 59.9% of his draws. The captain has never been below 53.2% at the faceoff dot in his career.

OUT OF THE GATE

The Blackhawks are in search of their first win in the new year after dropping a pair of games in a weekend back-to-back to lead off the 2022 slate. Chicago fell behind early and added a goal late on Saturday in a 6-1 loss to the Nashville Predators and did the opposite on Sunday at home, scoring first and then allowing five unanswered against the Calgary Flames in a 5-1 defeat.

BETWEEN THE PIPES

Arvid Soderblom made his NHL debut on Saturday in relief of starter Collin Delia, stopping 15 of the 18 shots he faced, and then made his first NHL start on Sunday in the loss, stopping 37 of 41 shots.
Marc-Andre Fleury and Kevin Lankinen missed both contests after being placed in COVID-19 protocol last week. Fleury returned to the active roster for Sunday's game but served as backup to Soderblom after missing a week of practice time. Lankinen remains in protocol, but could be cleared ahead of the team's upcoming three-game trip beginning Thursday in Arizona.