{"id":1495,"date":"2024-11-05T23:06:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T23:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2024-11-05T23:06:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T23:06:18","slug":"breaking-3-chicago-blackhawks-players-who-seriously-need-to-step-up-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=1495","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: 3 Chicago Blackhawks players who seriously need to step up in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><\/figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,w_8256,h_4644,x_0,y_312\/c_fill,w_752,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images\/ImagnImages\/mmsport\/99\/01jbz3vqqy6890vk1zzq.jpg\" alt=\"Oct 26, 2024; Dallas, Texas, USA; Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Alex Vlasic (72) looks on during the face-off in the second period against the Dallas Stars at the American Airlines Center. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-Imagn Images\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-0\">The Chicago Blackhawks are once again at a crossroads, and it\u2019s been a familiar story for anyone following the team over the past half-decade. But is there a way for this group, one that has plenty of new faces, to salvage a season that\u2019s guaranteed nothing but a rough start so far?<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\">I\u2019ll never say a team, even some of the worst in the league, should look forward to the 2025 offseason in November 2024. But the Hawks do need a few players to bring their absolute best game this month and next if they don\u2019t want to start looking ahead to the summer when January 1st rolls around.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\">So, I\u2019ve listed three players who must step up their respective games ASAP if the Hawks want to make November 2024 at least a somewhat successful endeavor. Who made the list, why, and what has made them valuable to the team so far?<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"inline-text-3\">Tyler Bertuzzi<\/h2>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\">Don\u2019t get me wrong: Tyler Bertuzzi has been lighting the lamp often with four goals in 13 contests, good for a 14.8 shooting percentage. But he\u2019s been doing nothing else in that span, as those four goals comprise his only four points despite an average total ice time of 16:04.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\">Overall, he needs to be a more physical, grittier player, and we\u2019re not seeing that. Now, in his defense, Bertuzzi has been a pivotal player on the man advantage, with the Hawks scoring six times while he\u2019s been on the ice, good for an on-ice shooting percentage at 5-on-4 of 15.4. He\u2019s also converted a pair of power play goals.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\">Bertuzzi has been a journeyman lately, but the Blackhawks brought him in to be a pivotal part of this rebuild, and that hasn\u2019t been the case just yet.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"inline-text-7\">Jason Dickinson<\/h2>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\">I was hoping to see Jason Dickinson at least get close to his 22-goal season that he enjoyed last year, but he\u2019s nowhere near on pace to match it. Thus far, Dickinson\u2019s found twine just once in 13 games, putting him on pace for between six and seven goals this season.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\">Realistically, I didn\u2019t see Dickinson snagging 22 goals again, but somewhere between 16 and 19 wasn\u2019t out of the question. Yet while he hasn\u2019t been scoring, nor has he been winning faceoffs the same way he did last year, Dickinson has helped the Hawks in other ways, judging from an on-ice shooting percentage of 12.3 at even strength.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\">This means every time the Hawks find themselves playing at even strength, and Dickinson is on the ice, they\u2019re scoring roughly one-eighth of all the shots fired toward the net. Further, many of his draws are coming in the defensive zone, with only 25.5 of his faceoffs occurring in the offensive zone.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-11\">Still, if he can find a way to find the net more, Dickinson should provide some serviceable supplementary scoring.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"inline-text-12\">Alex Vlasic<\/h2>\n<p id=\"inline-text-13\">You may shake your head at this one since I had more than a few critical words to say for Tyler Bertuzzi and Jason Dickinson, but that\u2019s not why I have Alex Vlasic listed. Instead, Vlasic is here because he\u2019s been playing some good hockey in all three zones, and November 2024 is a prime opportunity for him to more than step up his play and become an ultra-high-impact player during a pivotal month.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-14\">I\u2019m not saying November 2024 will decide whether this will be another throwaway season for the Blackhawks, but if they play the same way they did in October but Vlasic improves his play even more, Chicago\u2019s chances of pulling off an upset or two will have skyrocketed.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-15\">So far, he\u2019s got seven points, all assists, in 13 games, plus 36 blocks and 11 takeaways, and the Hawks on-ice shooting percentage with him on the ice is an incredible 13.4 percent at even strength. Let him step up his play even more, and watch the Hawks get that much closer to relevancy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Blackhawks haven\u2019t exactly shocked the league, so for a better November, a few players need to step up their game and fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chicago-blackhawks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: 3 Chicago Blackhawks players who seriously need to step up in November - 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=1495\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: 3 Chicago Blackhawks players who seriously need to step up in November - 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