{"id":5337,"date":"2024-12-03T23:17:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T23:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=5337"},"modified":"2024-12-03T23:17:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T23:17:21","slug":"breaking-three-blackhawks-have-opportunity-to-make-four-nations-face-off-rosters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=5337","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Three Blackhawks Have Opportunity To Make Four Nations Face-Off Rosters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmockery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/USATSI_19868913-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Three Blackhawks Have Opportunity To Make Four Nations Face-Off Rosters\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last season, the Blackhawks didn\u2019t get a representative at the NHL All-Star Game after Connor Bedard suffered a broken jaw. This year will mark the second winter in a row where Chicago won\u2019t be represented at the All-Star Game, but neither will the rest of the league. The NHL will be holding an international tournament between NHL players from Canada, Finland, Sweden and the United States instead of All-Star Weekend.<\/p>\n<p>When team selections are announced on Wednesday, there\u2019s a decent chance that multiple Blackhawks could make the list. Teuvo Teravainen is a virtual lock to make Team Finland, Connor Bedard could sneak onto Team Canada and Alex Vlasic could make Team USA.<\/p>\n<p>There was never much doubt that Teravainen would make Team Finland, and he\u2019ll probably be on their top six. The team has plenty of top talent like Aleksander Barkov, Mikko Rantanen, Artturi Lehkonen and others, but not as much depth as the others in the tournament. Teravainen hasn\u2019t found much that much success this year with six goals and 12 points in 24 games, but he\u2019ll hear his name called Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Team Canada is once again expected to be a favorite\/highly competitive group. As a result, Bedard could become the most polarizing player of the roster announcements. On one hand, he\u2019s the \u201cfuture of hockey\u201d and an immensely talented player who would be representing Canada as a pro for the first time. On the other hand, he\u2019s still 19 years old and has a ways to go before he can be labeled a perennial superstar. With multiple long scoring slumps this season, he hasn\u2019t made the best closing arguments. Still, there\u2019s a decent chance he makes the roster, even as an extra skater.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, one skater who isn\u2019t getting nearly as much consideration as he should is Alex Vlasic, who has a case to be on Team USA in February. The big defenseman has gradually turned into one of the best blueliners in the entire NHL, especially at stopping the puck. This season hasn\u2019t been a great case for Vlasic, who hasn\u2019t scored a goal just yet and is -5 on the year. However, there\u2019s no question he\u2019s one of the most valuable Blackhawks and one of the best defensemen in the league. It looks like there will be more of an emphasis on two-way talent for Team USA, but the squad could use Vlasic\u2019s talents. With plenty of offensive firepower on every team in the competition, a defensive defenseman like Vlasic could be the key to finding success. He\u2019s probably on the outside looking in at this point, but he should at least be considered more than he currently is.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When team selections are announced on Wednesday, there\u2019s a decent chance that multiple Blackhawks could make the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5337","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: Three Blackhawks Have Opportunity To Make Four Nations Face-Off Rosters - 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=5337\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: Three Blackhawks Have Opportunity To Make Four Nations Face-Off Rosters - 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