Former interim head coach Derek King didn’t get the full-time gig, but Luke Richardson decided to bring King back to the Chicago Blackhawks’ bench as an assistant coach. Meanwhile, Dylan Strome and Dominik Kubalik won’t return as the team decided not to extend them qualifying offers. Plus, the guys get their first look at the new prospects on Day 1…
The news broke on Friday that the Blackhawks have hired Luke Richardson to lead their rebuild and be their new head coach. Richardson has been in the NHL since the early ’80s, but this is his first head coaching job at hockey’s highest level. Here are five things to know about Chicago’s new leader. 1. Richardson played in 1,417 NHL…
It was a tumultuous season both on and off the ice for the Chicago Blackhawks, from the findings in the Jenner & Block report in October that led to Stan Bowman’s resignation to Jeremy Colliton getting fired for the team’s awful play. Jay Zawaski and Greg Boysen sort through the highs and (mostly) lows of the 2021-22 season and look…