{"id":654,"date":"2024-10-30T12:27:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T12:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=654"},"modified":"2024-10-30T12:27:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T12:27:45","slug":"october-check-in-which-blackhawks-prospects-are-closest-to-the-nhl-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=654","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udd25 October Update: Which Blackhawks Prospects Are Nearest to Making the NHL? \ud83c\udfd2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmockery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/USATSI_23028218-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"October Check-In: Which Blackhawks Prospects Are Closest To The NHL?\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re now approaching the completion of the first month of regular-season action for the Blackhawks \u2013 their final game of the month will be played on Halloween night. As the calendar flips to November, Chicago still isn\u2019t a great team, and probably won\u2019t be headed to the playoffs this year.<\/p>\n<p>That means that when this season begins to wind down, we could see a few of the Blackhawks\u2019 top prospects hit the NHL. As Chicago\u2019s health gradually dwindles and the lineup becomes more unstable, three Blackhawks prospects could find themselves in the NHL sometime soon.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-frank-nazar\">Frank Nazar<\/h2>\n<p>The Blackhawks were clear during training camp that the second-line center position was Nazar\u2019s for the taking, but it became evident that he wasn\u2019t quite ready at that point. Now five games into his season in Rockford, however, the 2022 13th-overall pick has been nothing short of excellent. As the IceHogs\u2019 top-line center, he has four points in five games and is making plays on both ends of the ice. If a Blackhawks forward, especially one with good scoring talent, hits IR, Nazar\u2019s could be the first name called.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-ethan-del-mastro\">Ethan Del Mastro<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_fill,w_1200,ar_4:3,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images\/GettyImages\/mmsport\/99\/01hqrp3cbb30r902df7v.jpg\" alt=\"From Gold Medal to AHL All-Star: Ethan Del Mastro Could Be a Big Part of the Blackhawks' Rebuild\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Blackhawks\u2019 pipeline on the defensive end is an interesting one \u2013 Kevin Korchinski is finally getting the time in Rockford that he needed last year, and Artyom Levshunov, while already impressive, isn\u2019t quite ready to make his debut. While he doesn\u2019t have the same draft capital invested in him as those two top-ten overall picks, Ethan Del Mastro could instead be the first name the Blackhawks call in the event of another injury or late in the season (assuming Isaak Phillips is already in the NHL). The 21-year-old got a taste of the big show in two games with Chicago at the end of last season, and showed that he\u2019s defensively sound enough to compete at the next level. As Rockford\u2019s AHL All-Star Game representative last season, Del Mastro doesn\u2019t have much more to learn and will likely be in Chicago at some point this season.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-colton-dach\">Colton Dach<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bleachernation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/TJ-Brodie_USATSI_24505213.jpg\" alt=\"Colton Dach Impressing Blackhawks Coaches, Fans With Preseason Performance - Bleacher Nation\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dach\u2019s is an often-forgotten name for the Blackhawks, but he projects as an eventual franchise cornerstone as a power forward. A concussion derailed his season last year \u2013 otherwise, he likely would have already made his debut. Now fully healthy, Dach could at least get called up for a short stint in Chicago this season, and could even spend a handful of games at the next level. The 2021 second-round pick is just what the next generation of skilled-yet-undersized Blackhawks needs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Chicago\u2019s health gradually dwindles and the lineup becomes more unstable, three Blackhawks prospects could find themselves in the NHL sometime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","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>\ud83d\udd25 October Update: Which Blackhawks Prospects Are Nearest to Making the NHL? \ud83c\udfd2 - 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=654\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\ud83d\udd25 October Update: Which Blackhawks Prospects Are Nearest to Making the NHL? 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