Chicago Blackhawks News and Rumors
Blackhawks Wisely Send Rinzel & Slaggert Down To AHL
Following a pair of blowout losses over the weekend, the Chicago Blackhawks flew home from the West Coast and made two roster transactions on Monday afternoon. Defenseman Sam Rinzel and forward Landon Slaggert were both assigned to the Rockford IceHo
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Rockford Resets, World Juniors Reaction, Depth, Kane Chasing History, and Other Blackhawks Bullets
The Blackhawks sent two players to Rockford on Monday. Sam Rinzel and Landon Slaggert were in different situations, but wound up in the same place. Slaggert was enjoying the press box buffet for the past couple weeks, getting healthy scratched al
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Tuesday Morning Bag Skate 12-9-25
This is your daily thread to talk about the latest hockey news. BLACKHAWKS Blackhawks Bits: Rinzel, Slaggert assigned to Rockford (SCH) Let’s pull this rig over to the soft shoulder (Fels) Blackhawks’ disastrous weekend leads to infle
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Blackhawks Prospects Look to Extend World Junior Championship Streak (Sorry, Canada!)
The 2026 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship will take place between Dec. 26, 2025 and Jan. 5, 2026, in Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota. If we’ve learned anything about the World Junior Championship, it would be wise for countries to have
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Blackhawks Assign Rinzel & Slaggert to Rockford in Beneficial Move
The Chicago Blackhawks announced on Dec. 8 that they sent defenseman Sam Rinzel and forward Landon Slaggert to the Rockford IceHogs. This news comes after a road trip in which…
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Experts Discuss Blackhawks Prospect Marek Vanacker Getting Left Off Canada’s WJC Roster
On Monday, Hockey Canada officially named the roster for its World Junior Championship training camp. As I mentioned in our Monday bullets, Marek Vanacker is not on the list. Vanacker, like his then-Brantford teammate Nick Lardis one year ago, is lef
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Blackhawks send D Sam Rinzel and F Landon Slaggert to minors
The Chicago Blackhawks assigned struggling defenceman Sam Rinzel to the minors on Monday.
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Blackhawks defenseman Rinzel sent to AHL affiliate
The Chicago Blackhawks assigned struggling defenseman Sam Rinzel, 21, regarded as one of the team's best prospects who is in his second NHL season, to Rockford of the American Hockey League on Monday afternoon.
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Blackhawks Send Sam Rinzel, Landon Slaggert to Rockford
On Monday afternoon the Blackhawks assigned defenseman Sam Rinzel and forward Landon Slaggert to the Rockford IceHogs. The Blackhawks did not call anyone up. The move leaves the Blackhawks with six defensemen on their NHL roster, which me
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Canada head coach Cooper says he expects ‘excruciating’ Olympic roster choices
Jon Cooper expects there will be “excruciatingly tough” decisions when it comes down to formalizing Canada’s roster for the NHL’s Olympic return. The Tampa Bay Lightning head coach and bench boss of the country’s men’s hockey team at the
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Frank Nazar’s Night in Anaheim (There’s More to Hockey Than Just Scoring)
Frank Nazar is on the struggle bus right now for the Chicago Blackhawks. He hasn’t scored a goal since Oct. 28 — a stretch of 17 games. And some fans have extrapolated from his goal scoring woes that he isn’t playing well in other areas of the
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Longtime forward Craig Smith retires from NHL
Craig Smith is hanging up his skates. The longtime NHL forward announced his retirement from the NHL on Monday after 987 regular-season games. Smith, of Madison, Wisc., last suited up for the Chicago Blackhawks and Detroit Red Wings last season, tall
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