Ben Pope of the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that Chicago Blackhawks injured defenseman Jarred Tinordi will take some contact in the team’s practice tomorrow before they evaluate if he is ready to return to the lineup. Tinordi suffered an oblique injury back on November 9th in a game against the Tampa Bay Lightning and hasn’t dressed since then.
He was placed on the injured reserve on November 11th; however, it was retroactive to the 9th. The Blackhawks then called up Isaak Phillips from the Rockford IceHogs of the American Hockey League to take his place. Phillips has fared well as of late with three assists in his last four games although he has struggled to manage the puck during his NHL run. Tinordi brings more edge and physicality to his game than Phillips, averaging nearly three hits a game this season. However, he is limited offensively having posted just one assist in nine games this season.
In other Blackhawks notes:
- Ben Pope of the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that Chicago forward Cole Guttman suffered an upper-body injury on Sunday in the Blackhawks loss to the St. Louis Blues and is now day-to-day. The 24-year-old was scratched on Tuesday night in what many had assumed was a healthy scratch capacity but given the news today, it appears that Guttman’s injury kept him sidelined and will likely keep him out of tonight’s game against the Detroit Red Wings. Guttman has dressed in five games this season for the Blackhawks, registering a single goal which came in the season opener against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
- The Chicago Blackhawks have announced that forward Taylor Hall underwent successful surgery on Monday to repair his right ACL. Hall is expected to miss the remainder of the regular season effectively ending his first season with the Blackhawks. Hall was dealt to Chicago in the offseason alongside Nick Foligno and was expected to ride shotgun next to rookie phenom Connor Bedard. Things didn’t work out as planned with Hall registering just two goals and two assists in ten games before the ailment cut his season short.
Tinordi has been maligned by almost every poster on this site including me. But he’s been mostly a competent D man on a team that needs as many as it can get. He’s just hurt a lot of the time. Guttman too, he can’t stay off the IR. He will probably be gone soon. In the somebody has to explain this stat to me category. Vlasic and Seth Jones have been the Hawks defense pair the whole season. Yet Vlasic is a plus 7 and Jones is a minus 7. I know Jones plays on the PP and gets more minutes but still the Hawks haven’t given up that many SH goals. Vlasic should be paired with Murphy to give the Hawks at least 1 reliable pairing for now. And why is Zaitsev still here? He’s basically worthless and takes up oxygen.
Re Vlasic/Jones pair:
PP/SH doesn’t count towards +/- (while empty net does wtf). Per Natural Stat Trick the Vlasic/Jones pair is +5 in slightly over 200 minutes played together in even strength. Jones/Korchinski had 120 minutes together and are -7. Jones/Phillips even managed -2 in only 5 minutes, etc.
Jones is getting around 6 more minutes on ice than Vlasic nightly, That might explain the + – differential, Jones plays all situations, Vlasic minutes are more guarded. That’s my best explanation.
Perry just apologized and basically said he has an alcohol problem. I’m just kind of surprised he just didn’t enter into a substance abuse program and he could of kept his money. Unless you can’t do that after the fact. But I seem to remember Galenchyk( Spelling?) doing that very same thing, Or maybe I’m mistaken.
My guess is, based on the latest lingo everyone is using in regards to official statements, whatever happened maybe happened with a employee of the org, not a ‘teammate’ or ‘family member’of one, and whatever that was was egregious enough to warrant ‘no do overs’ for the Blackhawks.