Chicago Blackhawks vs Boston Bruins Preview & Game Thread

  

Chicago Blackhawks (29-32-8) at Boston Bruins (43-15-8)

11:30 Central

RADIO: WGN 720

NBC

PROJECTED GOALIES:

Chicago:
Anton Forsberg (8-14-3 W-L | 3.02 GAA | 0.906 SV% | 0 SO)

Boston:
Anton Khudobin (15-4-4 W-L | 2.45 GAA | 0.918 SV% | 1 SO)

PROJECTED LINES/PAIRINGS:

Chicago

Saad-Toews-Kane
DeBrincat-Schmaltz-Hinostroza
Jurco-Anisimov-Highmore
Sharp-Kampf-Hayden

Keith-Murphy
Gustafsson-Seabrook
Oesterle-Rutta

Boston

Marchand-Riley Nash-Pastrnak
Debrusk-Krejci-Rick Nash
Heinen-Wingels-Gionta
Schaller-Kuraly-Acciari

Chara-Carlo
Krug-McQuaid
Grzelcyk-Miller

STATISTICAL COMPARISONS:

Power play:
Chicago 15.4% (28th)
Boston 22.1% (4th)

Penalty kill:
Chicago 80.3% (16th)
Boston 83.0% (5th)

Corsi For % (5-on-5):
Chicago 53.02% (3rd)
Boston 54.17% (1st)

Faceoffs:
Chicago 49.7% (18th)
Boston 51.1% (10th)

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About Jeff Osborn

Jeff has covered the Blackhawks since 2009 with his former website www.puckinhostile.com and podcast The Puckin Hostile Shoutcast until 2017, when he moved over to The Rink. After a short hiatus to cover the inaugural Seattle Kraken season, he came back to Blackhawks coverage and started "The Net Perspective" podcast to discuss goaltending and goaltender development.

     

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