The 2026-27 season is just 17 games old, but Chicago Blackhawks fans already wish it were over. The Blackhawks lost 5-3 to the Florida Panthers and had the privilege of following that up with another Florida game, this time against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
In the second half of back-to-back games, the Chicago Blackhawks matched up with the 9-3-2 Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday, Nov. 5. There were a lot of Hawks fans in the house, as Tampa is a prime destination for a getaway and to watch your favorite team play.
The Chicago Blackhawks dropped another game to Florida this season. The team now sits at 4-11-1 as they continue the southeastern road trip. In January of 2025, Dillon Boucher of the Wichita Thunder scored a goal in a blowout versus the Allen Americans.
The Chicago Blackhawks have had a dismal start to their season. All signs point towards another bottom-feeding finish. Still, general manager Kyle Davidson has been said to want to improve the roster rather than let it fester as it did in previous seasons.
The 2026-27 NHL season is well into its second month, and it’s clear that no team is off to a more disastrous start than the Chicago Blackhawks. Based on their offseason moves and posturing, the Blackhawks were ready to try to go from perennial rebuilder to playoff caliber team this season.
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 are certainly struggling out of the gate, with a 4-11-1 record through their first 16 games. But one thing to bear in mind is that they’re a very young team.
The Chicago Blackhawks have lost four in a row, and seven of their last eight games, to begin the 2026-27 season. While most around the league didn’t expect the Blackhawks to be super competitive this season, they’ve looked worse than we thought.
In a season where Chicago Blackhawks fans were hoping to see some life from a rebuild start to emerge, the team on the ice has been an extreme letdown.
The Chicago Blackhawks' woes in Sunrise, Florida, continued on Wednesday, with the club dropping its 10th straight contest at Amerant Bank Arena by a 5-3 score.
The NHL Hometown Remix jersey collection is here, as the league and Fanatics released the designs for all 32 teams on Monday. By the end of the night, several teams, including the Chicago Blackhawks, wore their new threads.
It has not been an encouraging season so far for the Chicago Blackhawks. Connor Bedard and the team have dropped to 4-11-1 this year and have yet to pick up a win on the road.
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 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.
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.
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.
The Chicago Blackhawks are not off to a great start in 2026-27. Connor Bedard and his teammates are currently second-to-last in the Western Conference with nine points.
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.
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 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.