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Blackhawks coach Luke Richardson wants Ian Mitchell to play to his strengths

Listed at just 5-11 and 193 pounds, Mitchell will never be confused with a big, rugged blueliner. Instead, Richardson hopes Mitchell shoots and moves the puck.

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Blackhawks’ drought of no power-play goals by defensemen lives into 2023

It has been 122 games since a Blackhawks defenseman scored a power-play goal. A particularly dismal power-play performance Saturday — 0-for-5 with two short-handed goals allowed — guaranteed the streak will extends into its third calendar year.

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Rookie defenseman Isaak Phillips looks like gem in Blackhawks’ mud

Phillips managed to stand out on another otherwise-depressing, winless Hawks road trip, which ended Saturday with a 4-1 loss to the Blue Jackets.

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Tyler Johnson speaking up to try to help Blackhawks: ‘At least we’re trying to work together’

Johnson, who leads Hawks forwards in points and scoring chances per minute at five-on-five this season, recently even took the initiative to suggest a new play to coach Luke Richardson.

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Blackhawks undermined by poor finishing, awful turnover in loss to Blues

The Hawks were generally clean and efficient in all three zones Thursday. But an inexplicable error by Boris Katchouk and a continued lack of goal-scoring doomed them to a 3-1 loss.

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Blackhawks trying to fix, learn from Taylor Raddysh’s defensive misread

Impatience caused Raddysh to drift too wide and too low in the defensive zone before the Hurricanes’ first goal Tuesday. But the Hawks addressed it immediately at the first intermission — a level of thoroughness that they hope prevents repeat mistakes.

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Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane fade back to silence in Blackhawks’ loss to Hurricanes

After a turn-back-the-clock performance Friday against the Blue Jackets, Kane and Toews made little impact in a 3-0 defeat Tuesday — yet again reminding them of the Hawks’ miserable reality.

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Blackhawks’ stability, outlook have improved since last Christmas

At this time last year, the Hawks were in disarray in almost every area. This year, they’re sitting last in the league standings, but at least there’s health, normalcy and a logical long-term plan.

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Alex Stalock’s sharp goaltending, infectious energy boost Blackhawks in return

Stalock saved 27 of 29 shots and led the Hawks to a win Friday in his first start since Nov. 1. But what the Hawks appreciate most about Stalock is that “even when he’s not perfect, he has a sense of humor about it,” coach Luke Richardson said.

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Blackhawks break through offensively, earn long-awaited win against Blue Jackets

The Hawks raced to an early lead and translated that into a 5-2 victory Friday, snapping an eight-game overall losing streak and 11-game home losing streak just before the NHL’s Christmas break.

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Patrick Kane considers point production ‘unacceptable,’ even as chances pile up

Kane’s particularly unlucky game Wednesday against the Predators multiplied his frustration with his stats, but he started to turn the corner Friday against the Blue Jackets.

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With aggressiveness long gone, Blackhawks’ penalty kill bleeding goals

The Hawks have allowed a power play goal in seven straight games — for the first time since 2016 — and rank 31st in the NHL in net PK rate since Nov. 17, when the unit’s decline began.

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Blackhawks’ lead proves short-lived in loss to Predators

“Winning is hard,” defenseman Connor Murphy said after the Hawks’ 4-2 defeat Wednesday, their 16th in their last 17 games.

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Blackhawks’ Isaak Phillips brings increased confidence, grit into juicy NHL opportunity

With Jarred Tinordi out “for a while” recovering from facial surgery, Phillips — one of the best defensemen in the AHL this season — will take Tinordi’s spot on the Hawks’ second pairing Wednesday. It’s a chance for the 21-year-old to prove his NHL readiness.

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Blackhawks satisfied with box-plus-one defensive structure, just not with execution

The zone-based “box-plus-one” defensive system that coach Luke Richardson has installed still seems like the best option. The Hawks are just making too many mistakes while trying to follow that structure.

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Luke Richardson’s attentiveness toward Blackhawks goalies rare among NHL coaches

Many head coaches understand little about goaltending and mostly leave their goalies alone. But Richardson, conversely, “thinks about the goalies all the time.”

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How a special guest of Blackhawks coach Luke Richardson serves as life lesson for his players: ‘One of the most selfless things someone could do’

CHICAGO — Coaches and players have friends and family attend games all the time, but Chicago Blackhawks coach Luke Richardson thought one of his old buddies from Ottawa, Ontario, Barrie Robillard, could set an example for his players.

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Blackhawks’ Seth Jones, Caleb Jones making progress as Luke Richardson urges safer play

The brothers produced two of their better games of the season Thursday and Friday, albeit in Hawks losses. With Richardson asking them to be more careful when they jump up offensively, they’ve made fewer costly errors lately.

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Blackhawks trying to ‘simplify’ overall game instead of searching for small tweaks

So many things have gone wrong during the Hawks’ 3-16-4 stretch that it would be impossible to fix each problem individually. Coach Luke Richardson has alternatively emphasized one overarching message: Simplification.

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Blackhawks unable to contain Wild’s Mats Zuccarello in yet another loss

Zuccarello, whom the Hawks kept in check in their first matchup against the Wild this year, exploded for a hat trick Friday in a 4-1 Wild win.

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Blackhawks’ latest switch fails to create spark in loss to Golden Knights

The Hawks tried their five-forward power-play unit again, but the experiment backfired. Over their last 17 games, the Hawks have now conceded more shorthanded goals (three) than they have wins (two).

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Blackhawks’ Luke Richardson learning how to maintain delicate balances as coach of a losing team

The Blackhawks’ awful record isn’t Richardson’s fault — his team was designed to be awful — but it nonetheless is his problem to deal with. He’s figuring out on the fly how to keep morale up without fostering complacency.

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Blackhawks’ Jason Dickinson searching for offense, appreciating steady role

The scoring explosion scoring that started Dickinson’s Hawks tenure in October proved he’d landed on the right team. Now, he’s trying to get some of that scoring touch back.

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Blackhawks’ hesitance to shoot exacerbating talent deficit

The Hawks certainly have had less offensive-zone possession time than their opponents this season, but they’ve also done less with the possession time they’ve had.

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Blackhawks defensemen working on better defending 2-on-1 rushes

Not every defenseman slides, and that’s not necessarily the wrong approach. But if they do, Richardson wants them to do so a half-second later but more aggressively toward the puck-carrier.

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