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Blackhawks Beat: 'Hawks leadership seeking answers for slow starts

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October 24, 2024
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The Chicago Blackhawks have played seven games this season. They've had slow starts in three of them. They started down 2-0 to start the season in Utah, trailed 2-0 after the first period vs. Buffalo on Saturday, and then again fell behind 2-0 to Vancouver 6:01 into the first period on Tuesday, including a Canucks goal on the first shift of the game.
That, my friends, is what we call a troubling trend.
Why are the slow starts happening?
“Good question."
That was Connor Murphy's response when I asked him this very question after Wednesday's practice.
"I don’t know. Part of it is probably mindset, part of it is probably us getting together as a team in the locker room before, or just havi...

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