Rookie left wing Robby Fabbri (lower body) and defenseman Jay Bouwmeester (upper body) practiced Wednesday and could play Thursday.
Fabbri, who has 18 goals and 19 assists in 71 games, has missed the past three games since sustaining an injury in the third period against the Colorado Avalanche on March 29.
"Waking up the next day I was happy with how I felt," Fabbri said. "Since then I've been trying to get to 100 percent and working every day to trying to get better.
"It's day-to-day right now. I'm not taking [Thursday] out of the picture. That's obviously one of the goals but we'll see. ... You don't want to come back too early and hurt yourself a little bit more. Just making sure that I'm 100 percent."
Bouwmeester has missed six games after an injury sustained March 22 against the San Jose Sharks.
"They look fine; they haven't been cleared yet," Hitchcock said of Fabbri and Bouwmeester. "We're going to talk to [head athletic trainer Ray Barile] and his staff and we'll talk to the players and see if they're cleared for [Thursday]. It's probably the fourth day in a row where they've looked good, but neither have been cleared for play right now. We'll have to wait on that. I would say we'll know by pregame skate, even before pregame skate [Thursday]."
Left wing Steve Ott has not participated in practice the past two times on the ice. Ott has not played since tearing both hamstrings against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Dec. 5.
"I think we should probably wait on Steve's situation and we'll get you something here in the next 24 hours on it," Hitchcock said. " ... It is what it is. Just batten down the hatches and get 20 guys to play, and we'll see. Chicago's got the same thing going. Both teams are pretty banged up."