Predicted Lineups for Blackhawks vs. Utah Hockey Club – 10/08/24 – Hockey Writers – Projected Lineups

The Chicago Blackhawks face the Utah Hockey Club at the Delta Center to begin their 2024-25 back-to-back seasons. Here are the projected/expected lineups, taken from NHL.com staff writers, independent contacts, and others.

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The proposed Blackhawks

Ilya Mikheyev – Connor Bedard – Teuvo Teravainen

Taylor Hall – Philipp Kurashev – Tyler Bertuzzi

Nick Foligno – Jason Dickinson – Joey Anderson

Craig Smith – Ryan Donato – Patrick Maroon

Alec Martinez – Seth Jones

Alex Vlasic – TJ Brodie

Nolan Allan – Connor Murphy

Petr Mrazek

Arvid Soderblom

Scratched: Isaak Phillips, Lukas Reichel, Andreas Athanasiou

Injured: Wyatt Kaiser (illness)

Status Report:

• Blackhawks coach Luke Richardson said defenseman Wyatt Kaiser is “skating, but he's not ready yet.”
• Defenseman Nolan Allan will make his NHL debut.

Proposed list for Utah

Clayton Keller – Barrett Hayton – Nick Schmaltz

Jack McBain – Logan Cooley – Dylan Guenther

Matias Maccelli – Josh Doan – Lawson Crouse

Liam O'Brien – Kevin Stenlund – Alexander Kerfoot

Mikhail Sergachev – Sean Durzi

Jusso Valimaki – Michael Kesselring

Ian Cole – Vladislav Kolyachonok

Connor Ingram

Karel Vejmelka

Scratched: Michael Carcone, Kailer Yamamoto, Robert Bortuzzo

Injured: Nick Bjugstad (upper body), John Marino (upper body)

Status report

• Bjugstad is on the injured/outside list, but the forward skated against Utah on Tuesday.

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