{"id":3420,"date":"2022-03-31T23:53:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T23:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/blackhawks-vs-florida-panthers-nhl-march-31-2022-preview-how-to-watch-lineups-second-city-hockey\/"},"modified":"2022-03-31T23:53:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T23:53:46","slug":"blackhawks-vs-florida-panthers-nhl-march-31-2022-preview-how-to-watch-lineups-second-city-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/31\/blackhawks-vs-florida-panthers-nhl-march-31-2022-preview-how-to-watch-lineups-second-city-hockey\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackhawks vs. Florida Panthers, NHL March 31, 2022: Preview, how to watch, lineups – Second City Hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After two straight losses despite significant leads, can the Blackhawks limit the bleeding against the Panthers?
After blowing multi-goal leads against the Golden Knights and Sabres, the Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> head southeast to face two of the best teams in the league in back-to-back games, starting with the Florida Panthers<\/a> on Thursday night.
The Panthers come to town fresh off a 7-4 victory over the Canadiens on Tuesday and a 7-2-1 record in their last 10 games. Florida added talent at the deadline, including Claude Giroux, who has five points in four games, and Ben Chiarot. The bad news is the Blackhawks already lost to the Panthers without Giroux and Chiarot this season, falling 5-2 on Feb. 20.
Panthers blog, <\/em>Litter Box Cats<\/em><\/a>
The Panthers are led by Jonathan Huberdeau, who is pulling off a Patrick Kane-esque feat, of being a Hart contender \u2014 albeit a dark horse candidate \u2014 from the team\u2019s second line. Huberdeau has 23 goals and 93 points in 66 games so far this season and should easily clear 100 points this year.
The next closest is Aleksander Barkov with 66 points, who leads the team with 29 goals. Sam Reinhart, now on the third line, is third with 63 points and 24 goals. Former Blackhawk Anthony Duclair and Carter Verhaeghe are tied with 49 points, wth Duclair having played fewer games.
The Panthers are currently playing without first defenseman Aaron Ekblad, who\u2019s having a potential Norris-contending season with 57 points in 61 games. Ekblad was on pace for 20 goals from the blue line before landing on injured reserve two weeks ago.
Florida is one of the best teams at 5-on-5 as well, which is clear from their six-point lead over second-place Tampa in the Atlantic Division \u2014 you know, the defending two-time Stanley Cup<\/a> champions. Florida is also tied with Carolina for first place in the Eastern Conference with a game in hand.
Florida is second in shot share (56.08%) and expected goal share at 5-on-5 (56.15%), although the Panthers aren\u2019t as great at controlling high-danger chances (54.18%, seventh in the NHL).
The reason for the Panthers\u2019 great possession numbers is their offense, as the Panthers are first in the league in shots per 60 (37.14), xG per 60 (3.11) and high-danger chances per 60 (13.75) at 5-on-5. The Panthers\u2019 defense is good, but not great, hovering around the top ten in shots against per 60 (29.08, ninth) and xGA\/60 (2.43, 11th); however, the Panthers are bad <\/em> in terms of protecting the crease: 23rd in high-danger chances against per 60 (11.63).
The last time these two teams played against each other, Florida controlled play, with the Blackhawks seeing just a 42.39% expected goal share and 45% shot share, and were not able to take advantage of Florida\u2019s high-danger weakness, getting just four chances on net to five against. The Blackhawks, in a 5-2 loss, had a good PDO (1.020) at 5-on-5 as well.
The other good news is that Boris Katchouk, who has yet to score a point in his Blackhawks tenure, scored an assist in the Lightning\u2019s lone win over the Panthers this season.
Blackhawks \u2014 Statistic \u2014 Panthers<\/strong>
46.11% (29th) \u2014 5-on-5 Corsi For \u2014 56.76% (1st)
45.32% (29th) \u2014 5-on-5 Expected goals for \u2014 56.15% (2nd)
2.69 (26th) \u2014 Goals per game \u2014 4.06 (1st)
3.48 (25th) \u2014 Goals against per game \u2014 2.89 (14th)
48.4% (22nd) \u2014 Faceoffs \u2014 47.8% (25th)
21.3% (17th) \u2014 Power play \u2014 23% (10th)
75.7% (23rd) \u2014 Penalty kill \u2014 79.8% (15th)
Blackhawks<\/strong>
DeBrincat \u2014 Strome \u2014 Kane
Kubalik \u2014 Toews \u2014 Raddysh
Kurashev \u2014 Borgstrom \u2014 T. Johnson
Katchouk \u2014 R. Johnson \u2014 Lafferty
Gustafsson \u2014 S. Jones
McCabe \u2014 C. Jones
Stillman \u2014 de Haan
Delia
Lankinen
Panthers<\/strong>
Verhaeghe \u2014 Barkov \u2014 Giroux
Huberdeau \u2014 Bennett \u2014 Duclair
Marchment \u2014 Luostarinen \u2014 Reinhart
Lomberg \u2014 Acciari \u2014 Thornton
Chiarot \u2014 Weegar
Forsling \u2014 Gudas
Hagg \u2014 Montour
Bobrovsky\/Knight
When: <\/strong>6 p.m. CT
Where: <\/strong>FLA Live Arena, Sunrise
TV: <\/strong>NBC Sports Chicago
Webstream: <\/strong>ESPN+<\/p>\n

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