The Rockford IceHogs ended the 2025-26 season with a 28-39-5 record and 61 points, leaving them seventh in the AHL Central division and outside of the Calder Cup Playoffs.
Although the Chicago Blackhawks have struggled mightily to start the 2026-27 NHL season, captain Connor Bedard has done his part, recording four goals and 10 points in nine games.
It’s safe to say the Chicago Blackhawks are in a tight spot right now. Four years into a slow and painful rebuild, this is the season where results were finally promised.
The Chicago Blackhawks have plenty of questions to answer after just four wins in 15 games. Yet one question takes place off the ice, and it could answer other worries about their defense.
The Chicago Blackhawks are going through a tough stretch, to say the least. The team has lost three in a row, but the latest defeat saw the team lose something more valuable.
People love a good mid-round draft pick that pans out, and in the NHL you used to see those fairly often, but that’s obviously partially luck. If the Red Wings thought Nicklas Lidstrom was going to become a top-five defenseman in history, they wouldn’t have waited until the 53rd pick to take him.
The Chicago Blackhawks made a pair of roster moves on Tuesday that addressed both immediate depth needs and a lingering injury situation on the blue line.
The Chicago Blackhawks blew another two-goal lead last night, this time to the Colorado Avalanche. After going up 2-0 in the first period, the Blackhawks surrendered 5 unanswered goals and lost their second straight game.
The Chicago Blackhawks need insurance now that veteran winger Patrick Kane is set to miss a few games with an upper-body injury. To that end, the Blackhawks announced they recalled forward Dillon Boucher from the AHL’s Rockford IceHogs.
The Chicago Blackhawks placed defenseman Bowen Byram on injured reserve on Tuesday, retroactive to Oct. 15. Byram, 25, has not played since Oct. 13 due to an upper-body injury.
Fresh off a 5-4 overtime loss to the Boston Bruins, the Chicago Blackhawks are struggling to find some momentum. On the positive side of things, they debuted their new hometown remix jerseys against the Colorado Avalanche.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
The Chicago Blackhawks are struggling mightily to start the 2026-27 NHL season, and things are going to get even more difficult without one of their most productive forwards.
The Chicago Blackhawks wore their green “Hometown Remix” jerseys for the first time Monday night, but a 2-0 first-period lead turned into a 5-2 loss to the Colorado Avalanche at the United Center.
The Chicago Blackhawks visit the Florida Panthers on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. EST in Sunrise, Florida, coming off three straight losses. Chicago enters the game 4-10-1 overall and 0-5-1 on the road.
Nazem Kadri and Jaden Schwartz scored two goals apiece to lift the visiting Colorado Avalanche to a 5-2 victory against the skidding Chicago Blackhawks on Monday.
The Chicago Blackhawks broke out their objectively snazzy “Hometown Remix” jerseys on Monday, but not much else went well during their 5-2 loss to the Colorado Avalanche.
The Chicago Blackhawks returned from their two-game road trip licking their wounds after a humiliating 4-1 loss to the Detroit Red Wings and a heartbreaking 5-4 overtime defeat at the hands of the Boston Bruins.
If there’s one thing that’s a given in this year’s Chicago Blackhawks team, it’s that they’re underperforming by a wide margin. Bringing back Patrick Kane was huge, signing Bowen Byram has appeared to be a bad move by general manager Kyle Davidson.
The Chicago Blackhawks controlled play in a spirited affair versus the Boston Bruins, outshooting them 41-32. The Atlantic Division leaders were too much for the Blackhawks, coming back three times throughout the game before Elias Lindholm won it 5-4 in overtime.
Last season, Nick Lardis made a midseason debut for the Chicago Blackhawks. After 41 games, it seemed like he would be a staple in the middle six. His 10 goals led fans to believe his monster scoring touch in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) was, to some extent, translatable to the NHL.
The Chicago Blackhawks find themselves in the midst of another rebuild, their second of the 21st century. But it wasn’t that long ago they were on top of the world, arguably the best team in the NHL from 2009 to 2015ish.
When ranking the greatest Chicago Blackhawks players of all time, it is clear the team is a bit of a feast-or-famine NHL franchise. The team’s six Stanley Cups are tied for the fourth most in history, but the first two came before World War II and their most recent three were won over six seasons from 2009-10 to 2014-15.
The Chicago Blackhawks have spent the past several seasons drafting and building around young talent, and Artyom Levshunov is expected to be a major part of that future.
André Lacroix, the skilled center who spent the 1971-72 season with the Chicago Blackhawks before becoming the all-time leading scorer in World Hockey Association history, has died at age 81.
The Chicago Blackhawks still haven’t found their footing, but one rookie is proving to be a silver lining early in the season. Roman Kantserov joined the Blackhawks as part of General Manager Kyle Davidson’s rebuilding efforts.