{"id":879,"date":"2024-10-31T23:45:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T23:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=879"},"modified":"2024-10-31T23:45:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T23:45:30","slug":"breaking-what-exactly-haunted-the-chicago-blackhawks-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=879","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: What exactly haunted the Chicago Blackhawks in October?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><\/figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,w_5472,h_3078,x_0,y_570\/c_fill,w_752,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images\/ImagnImages\/mmsport\/99\/01jbj73vpzyks1yr0fbc.jpg\" alt=\"Oct 28, 2024; Denver, Colorado, USA; Chicago Blackhawks left wing Nick Foligno (17) and left wing Taylor Hall (71) and center Philipp Kurashev (23) celebrate with right wing Ilya Mikheyev (95) and center Ryan Donato (8) and center Jason Dickinson (16) after a goal against the Colorado Avalanche in the third period at Ball Arena. Mandatory Credit: Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-0\">As October ends and November commences, the Chicago Blackhawks find themselves in a familiar spot: Last place in the Central Division. Well, tied for last with the underperforming Nashville Predators as they head into their final game of October in a season that once again is looking more like a throwaway campaign.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\">So, what happened to the Blackhawks in October, and why have they been off to such a bad start yet again? Overall, when you look at their goals for vs. goals against, the Hawks aren\u2019t that bad, ranking 22nd with 27 goals scored heading into Halloween\u2019s faceoff with the San Jose Sharks and a solid 16th with 33 goals allowed.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\">The Hawks, based on those two stats, look like they\u2019ve improved. Their special teams have also been solid, if unspectacular, with a power play that\u2019s converted 21.21 percent of the time, which was slightly over the league average as of the 31st, and their penalty kill sat just under the NHL norm of 78.91, with a percentage of 77.42, so it hasn\u2019t been awful.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\">Their 5-on-5 analytics don\u2019t even look awful, with a better-than-average save percentage, plus a manageable 48.2 Corsi For, plus 17 actual goals scored. Neither stat is sitting at the league average, but they\u2019re also not so far behind that they need to play serious catch-up.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"inline-text-4\">What exactly has been wrong with the Blackhawks in October?<\/h2>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\">As noted above, their 5-on-5 analytics weren\u2019t bad, but offensively, they are below average, and some are well below average, like shooting percentage (7.1 percent) and high-danger chances for (40.8 percent). Meanwhile, if there\u2019s one defensive analytic they\u2019ve been bad at throughout the month, it\u2019s giving up high-danger chances.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\">Here is where the problem persists, based on the data we have. So far, the average goals allowed from high-danger chances at 5-on-5 is eight, but the Hawks have allowed 11, or 10.9 percent high-danger goals allowed.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\">They\u2019re also surprisingly good at scoring goals when creating high-danger chances, having put up seven for a high-danger conversion rate of 10.1 percent, a full percentage point higher than the league average prior to Thursday night\u2019s slate of games.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\">That said, the Hawks are allowing way too many big plays, and they\u2019re not forging enough of them at 5-on-5. One-third of their goals allowed have come on high-danger chances, and just over one-quarter of their goals scored have come when they\u2019ve created such chances.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\">This isn\u2019t to say the Hawks will win a plethora more games if they find ways to stop giving such chances to opponents while creating more of their own. 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