Blackhawks vs Stars – lineups, broadcast information, game thread

It was the night before Thanksgiving… That’s not it. But it’s fun to be out and about with a few drinks and something to watch…if you get Chicago Sports Network. Either way, the Blackhawks host the Dallas Stars tonight, beginning one of the busiest stretches of their entire 2024-25 regular season schedule.

The Blackhawks will look to get their offense on track with a few changes to the line, because why not? The defense was good. The goalkeeper was great. How about three or four goals and we can all go home happy?

Broadcast information

Puck drop: 7:30 p.m. CT
TV/Streaming: Chicago Sports Network+ (if/where available)
Radio: WGN 720 p.m

Expected lineups

Chicago Blackhawks

Taylor Hall – Connor Bedard – Philipp Kurashev
Tyler Bertuzzi – Ryan Donato – Teuvo Teräväinen
Ilya Mikheyev – Jason Dickinson – Nick Foligno
Pat Maroon – Lukas Reichel – Craig Smith

Alex Vlasic – Connor Murphy
Wyatt Kaiser – Alec Martinez
TJ Brodie – Louis Crevier

🥅 Petr Mrazek

Dallas Stars

UPDATE: Roope Hintz OUT, Colin Blackwell IN

Stars warming up:

Robertson-Johnston-Dadonov
Marchment-Duchene-Seguin
Benn Bourque Stankoven
Bakery Steel Blackwell

Lindell-Heiskanen
Harley Lyubushkin
Smith Dumba

DeSmith

— Mike Heika (@MikeHeika) November 28, 2024

🥅 Casey DeSmith

Injury report

Chicago Blackhawks

Laurent Brossoit (knee) and Seth Jones (right foot) are on IR.

Dallas Stars

Nils Lundqvist is every day.

What you should pay attention to

The Blackhawks will play the Stars for the third time since October 26th, but for the first time in Chicago. The other two games were pretty close; The Hawks were within one in the third period (of course).

Bedard scored his third goal of the season on October 26 in Dallas. He hasn’t scored a goal since. He also had an assist on Nov. 7 in Dallas. Maybe he’ll get back on track tonight at home?

Bedard has failed to score in his last two games. He has had at least one shot on goal in every other game this season. I bet he won’t be excluded again tonight.

Get caught up

Luke Richardson after Blackhawks practice today:
“On offense we just have to find something that helps us come into the game more. Because we get the goalkeeper, the defense; Special teams has really stepped up for us this year. That’s the one area we need to improve on.” …— Ben Pope (@BenPopeCST) November 26, 2024