Jeff Blashill Wants To Get Back To Having Consistent Lines

The Chicago Blackhawks were defeated on Sunday night by the two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers. The Hawks allowed four unanswered goals in the third period and lost 5-1.

This loss snapped a three-game point streak for Chicago, keeping them at 50 standings points entering a new week of play.

Blackhawks Unravel In Third Period, Lose To Panthers 5-1 The Chicago Blackhawks were defeated at the United Center on Sunday at the hands of the Florida Panthers.

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In the loss, some line shake-ups happened throughout the game. That is not something that Jeff Blashill loves doing, but he was clearly experimenting against the Panthers. Recent Blackhawks coaches loved putting lines in the blender, but Blashill had stabilized that until Sunday.

After the game was over, Blashill admitted that he plans on getting back to steady lines by the time they play their next game.

“It’s something we’ll look at and decide: okay, what are we going with? And just stay with that.”

During practice on Monday, all 15 forwards were healthy and accounted for. As a result, the lines and defense pairs looked like this:

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Nazar-Bedard-Teravainen

Bertuzzi-Dickinson-Mikheyev

Greene-Moore-Burakovsky

Donato-Foligno-Slaggert

Dach-Lafferty-Lardis

Vlasic-Crevier

Kaiser-Levshunov

Grzelcyk-Murphy

Knight

Soderblom

That fifth line of Colton Dach, Sam Lafferty, and Nick Lardis appears to be the extras ahead of their next game. Will one or two of them be sent down ahead of their departure for Minnesota? We will find out soon.

With that said, you can expect some of these lines to stick once they figure out the right combos before their next game. Chicago is scheduled to have a morning skate in St. Paul on Tuesday. That may be even more revealing.

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