The Chicago Blackhawks have moved Anthony Beauvillier to injured reserve with a wrist injury. He joins an extended record of injured Hawks, together with Taylor Corridor, Andreas Athanasiou and Seth Jones. Chicago acquired Beauvillier via trade in late November, sending a 2024 fifth-round decide to the New York Islanders. He has since performed in 15 video games with Chicago, scoring six factors and recording a -3.
Beauvillier’s performances with the Hawks convey his season complete as much as 14 factors in 37 video games. That’s a tempo of 31 factors throughout 82 video games, a step down from the career-high 40 factors he recorded in 82 video games final season, splitting the 12 months between the New York Islanders and Vancouver Canucks. Beauvillier was a focal piece of the deal that despatched Bo Horvat to the Islanders, with Vancouver additionally receiving Aatu Raty and a 2023 first-round decide. Vancouver flipped the decide to the Detroit Pink Wings for defenseman Filip Hronek.
The Blackhawks are experiencing a brutal dropping skid, going 4-10-2 for the reason that starting of December. They’ve been outscored 62-to-33 in that stretch, with opponents averaging a staggering 33.5 pictures every recreation. They’re experiencing the brunt of all of their lacking scoring expertise, with 4 of the group’s prime 10 scorers at present inactive. It’s not all unhealthy information, although, with generational rookie Connor Bedard trying lots snug in his first 12 months. Bedard has 15 objectives and 33 factors via his first 37 NHL video games, on tempo for 33 objectives and 73 factors. That’s a implausible strategy to kick off an NHL profession and might be motive for pleasure kind Hawks followers optimistic that Bedard’s scoring will solely go up because the group’s different prime abilities return from damage.
