Rookie 30-goal scorer Kubalik is also unsigned
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.It’s not lost on Jonathan Toews that if the NHL regular season had finished as scheduled, the Chicago Blackhawks wouldn’t have made the playoffs.
“Haven’t really had the chance to have those conversations with him,” Toews said Tuesday night after Chicago’s season ended in a five-game first-round series loss to Vegas. “Yeah, I don’t know. The goaltending situation hasn’t been on my mind much.
If nothing else, beating Edmonton in the qualifying around and getting outclassed by Vegas should be valuable experience for those players and others as a taste of NHL playoff hockey. Coach Jeremy Colliton, who’s younger than Keith and about 100 days older than injured defenceman Brent Seabrook, wasn’t ready to think about the future immediately after being eliminated. But assuming he returns, he will be tasked with figuring out how to build Chicago back up to being a perennial contender.“You’re always trying to think of how we can be better and how can we be hard to play against,” Colliton said. “Size can be part of it.
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