{"id":12951,"date":"2025-02-06T03:49:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T03:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=12951"},"modified":"2025-02-06T03:49:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T03:49:05","slug":"breaking-blackhawks-send-multiple-young-skaters-to-rockford-in-another-puzzling-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=12951","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Blackhawks Send Multiple Young Skaters To Rockford In Another Puzzling Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmockery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/USATSI_21628275-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Blackhawks Send Multiple Young Skaters To Rockford In Another Puzzling Move\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the Blackhawks getting three nights off in a row, the front office made a shrewd move this week, bringing up No. 2 overall pick and prized prospect Artyom Levshunov with the goal of getting him a few practices at the NHL level, getting a feel for the speed of the top level. Before Wednesday\u2019s game, Chicago made the expected move, sending Levshunov back down to the IceHogs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe pace up here for practices and the compete it takes to be in the in NHL. We\u2019ve had two good, spirited practices with a lot of pace and compete and that was a good learning experience for him to see. Talking to him, he was kind of baffled how quick it was at times but that\u2019s good. That\u2019s how you realize where you need to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><cite>Interim head coach Anders Sorensen<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.newsday.com\/ace\/c:ZjQxZWIxOTEtNDY2My00:N2RkMWM5MjAtOTUwMC00\/landscape\/1280\" alt=\"Kurashev's OT goal lifts Blackhawks over Wild 2-1 - Newsday\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>That\u2019s about the best possible answer Sorensen could give when asked what he hoped Levshunov would take back to Rockford with him. The fact that the young defenseman was \u201cbaffled\u201d isn\u2019t a bad thing \u2013 it\u2019s perfectly normal for a call up to be an eye-opening experience for young skaters. He\u2019s now clearly learned what he needs to work on and can take that into the remainder of his season in Rockford.<\/p>\n<p>While one of the Blackhawks\u2019 moves was predictable, the other was largely a head-scratcher. When Chicago sent Levshunov down, they added forward Colton Dach to the list. As we discussed on Tuesday, it\u2019s not unlikely that the Blackhawks could send a few more youngsters down to the AHL while the NHL is on a break for the 4 Nations Face-Off. But with three games until then, the move was quite the surprise.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time this week that the Blackhawks have displayed questionable decision-making. To open Wednesday\u2019s game, Chicago scratched Nolan Allan and Philipp Kurashev, two youngsters looking to work on their game and become more valuable to the organization. In their place, the Blackhawks started guys like TJ Brodie and Craig Smith, who was activated from IR in a corresponding move. Chicago had a chance to start a lineup with nine players ages 23 and younger, but didn\u2019t include Allan, Dach or Kurashev (who\u2019s 25 years old). What gives?<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, Sorensen wasn\u2019t starting Dach anyway, so GM Kyle Davidson is at least doing his job by giving him more ice time in Rockford. And with the Blackhawks headed for a break next week, it makes sense for them to send young skaters to the IceHogs. But why now? Why wouldn\u2019t the team, in a season that is already lost, give its youngsters as much run as possible? Quite the head-scratcher.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While one of the Blackhawks\u2019 moves was predictable, the other was largely a head-scratcher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chicago-blackhawks","category-nfl","category-san-francisco-49ers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: Blackhawks Send Multiple Young Skaters To Rockford In Another Puzzling Move - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=12951\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: Blackhawks Send Multiple Young Skaters To Rockford In Another Puzzling Move - 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