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The Chicago Blackhawks, following a big win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Hockey Night in Canada at the United Center, will host the Calgary Flames on Tuesday night. 

Chicago’s win over Toronto was the kind that shows that they are never out of a game, even when the odds are stacked against them. They’ll be looking to carry this momentum into their second tilt of the season with the Flames.

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The last date with Calgary came up in Alberta, and it was a physical affair. There were a handful of fights, some big-time hits, and a little bit of animosity following Frank Nazar’s injury. Whether there will be a response to that kind of game this time around remains to be seen.

Scouting Calgary 

At 5-12-3, the Calgary Flames enter this match with the worst record in the National Hockey League. Their 13 points, which are about where the Blackhawks were at this time last year, rank dead last. Being the 32nd-place team is never ideal in November, but that’s where the Flames find themselves after decent expectations coming into the year. 

Last year, the Flames came in with lousy expectations, and they overachieved. A big reason for that was their rookie goaltender, Dustin Wolf. So far this year, however, Wolf has been dealing with the sophomore slump. 

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The Calgary Flames, despite their place in the standings, have players who can beat you. For one, Wolf can still find ways to stonewall his opponents. He has it in him, despite it being a bad year up to this point. It can become a good year starting now. He will be the man in the net for the Flames in this one. 

Nazem Kadri, Jonathan Huberdeau, and Blake Coleman, amongst others, can all burn you up front with their puck skill. On defense, guys like Rasmus Anderson and MacKenzie Weegar can make plays from the back end. Some of these guys are playing with the hopes of being moved at the deadline, so the motivation to produce is there. 

Projected Blackhawks Lines, Defense Pairs, and Starting Goalie

So far this season, Connor Bedard and Frank Nazar have really stepped up offensively. They have been the two best forwards, while all of their wings have played up to expectations to help them create. 

It is encouraging to see guys like Ryan Greene and Oliver Moore push for more ice time and expanded roles, when their spots on the team at any point this season were not guaranteed at the start of camp. 

On defense, you have options who can all play up and down the lineup. Artyom Levshunov, who took a seat as a healthy scratch earlier this year, has been amazing lately. The Blackhawks are hoping that tactic works on Sam Rinzel, as he sat in the last game against Toronto. 

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Jason Dickinson practiced and was the fourth-line center on Monday, but he is not ready to come back into the lineup. He doesn’t want to return until he knows for a fact that he’s 100 percent healthy and won’t aggravate his injury. Dickinson, despite feeling good, feels like he owes it to his teammates to operate like that. 

Tyler Bertuzzi, who was absent from practice on Monday, is a game-time decision. However, it seems he is trending towards missing another game, as he was not on the ice during the morning skate. He was hot at the time of his injury, so you know he and the team feel this issue came at the worst possible time. 

Nick Foligno, who broke his hand and will miss four weeks because of a blocked shot, was placed on injured reserve, retroactive to November 15th. 

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If Bertuzzi does, in fact, miss the game, defenseman Sam Rinzel will draw back in, and the team will go 11/7 again. The Blackhawks have mostly gone with that strategy this year, and it may continue against the Flames. 

Arvid Söderblom is going to get the start in goal tonight for the Blackhawks. He has been a solid backup this season and will look to continue that on Tuesday night against the Flames. 

How To Watch

For those in Chicago looking to catch the game on television, it can be found on CHSN. It can be streamed elsewhere in the United States on ESPN+. In Calgary, Sportsnet West is the place to find the game. It can also be streamed in Canada on Sportsnet+. The puck is scheduled to drop a little after 7:30 PM CT. 

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Former Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Jeff Petry has hit a notable new milestone, as he played in his 1,000th career NHL game during the Florida Panthers' Nov. 17 matchup against the Vancouver Canucks. 

Hitting the 1,000-game mark in the NHL is a big accomplishment, and Petry can now officially say he has done just that. 

Petry is currently in his 16th NHL season, with this being his first with the Panthers. The former Penguins blueliner signed a one-year, $775,000 contract with the Panthers this off-season after spending the two previous seasons with the Detroit Red Wings. 

Petry spent the 2022-23 season with the Penguins, where he recorded five goals, 26 assists, 31 points, 111 blocks, 190 hits, and a plus-2 rating in 61 games. This would be his only season with the Penguins.

In 1,000 career NHL games split between the Edmonton Oilers, Montreal Canadiens, Penguins, Red Wings, and Panthers, Petry has recorded 96 goals, 294 assists, 390 points, 1,577 blocks, and 2,042 hits. 

The Philadelphia Flyers have assigned defenseman Adam Ginning to their American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, on a conditioning loan. 

Ginning has played in six games this season with the Flyers, where he has recorded zero points, four hits, five blocks, and an even plus/minus rating. The left-shot defenseman's last appearance with the Flyers was on Oct. 25 against the New York Islanders, where he had 12:07 of ice time. 

Now, after being sent down to Lehigh Valley on this conditioning loan, Ginning will have the opportunity to get back into some game action. He will be aiming to impress during it, as it could open the door for him to get called back up to the Flyers' roster. 

Transaction: We have assigned defenseman Adam Ginning to the @LVPhantoms (AHL) on a conditioning loan.

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Ginning has appeared in 195 career AHL games, all with the Phantoms, where he has posted seven goals, 44 assists, 51 points, 216 penalty minutes, and a plus-17 rating. It will be interesting to see how much he can build on these career AHL stats with the Phantoms during his conditioning loan from here. 

After missing 12 games with an upper-body injury, Maxim Shabanov returned to the New York Islanders' lineup on Sunday night. Despite a 4-1 loss to the Colorado Avalanche, the first-year NHL player looked strong playing on the fourth line before earning shifts in the top six later on in the game. 

"I thought he played well," Islanders head coach Patrick Roy said following the game in Denver. "With the type of injury he had, upper body injury, you're curious to see how someone's going to react to contact because you don't really get hit in the practices. So I thought he didn't shy away from any of that."

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Because of how he looked, Roy will be starting him alongside Mathew Barzal and Jonathan Drouin on Tuesday night against the Dallas Stars. 

Simon Holmstrom, who had been playing in that right-wing spot alongside Barzal, did not skate on Thursday morning and is a game-time decision due to illness, per the team. 

If he can't play, it will be Maxim Tsyplakov drawing back into the lineup, likely skating alongside Casey Cizikas and Calum Ritchie on the club's fourth line.

Puck drop between the Islanders and the Stars comes your way at 8 PM ET on MSGSN2.

The NHL fined Ottawa Senators winger Nick Cousins $2,000 for embellishment on Tuesday.

The league's hockey operations department flagged Cousins for two incidents since the start of the season, which triggers the $2,000 fine.

Cousins previously received a warning following an incident on Oct. 25 against the Washington Capitals. The second citation stems from the Senators' 4-2 win over the Utah Mammoth on Nov. 9.

During the first period, Cousins knocked a puck away from Mammoth defenseman Mikhail Sergachev at the attacking blueline. Utah winger JJ Peterka passed the puck back to Dylan Guenther and appeared to make contact with Cousins, who fell to the ice. Peterka was assessed a two-minute minor penalty for interference. The Senators failed to score on the power play.

NHL Hockey Operations tracks all games and not only logs penalties for diving or embellishment but flags all plays not called on the ice that in its opinion deserved such a penalty. When the department is convinced that a player warrants sanction after internally deliberating, it issues a citation.

Rule 64 of the NHL rulebook is meant to more seriously punish players and teams the more they embellish to draw a penalty. Here's what happens when a player is cited for embellishment or diving under Rule 64:

• First citation: warning
• Second citation: $2,000 fine
• Third citation: $3,000 fine
• Fourth citation: $4,000 fine
• Fifth citation onward: $5,000 fine each

If a team combines for four fines, whether it's a player or collective team receiving the fine, the head coach starts to get fined as follows:

• Four fines total: coach is fined $2,000
• Five fines total: coach is fined $3,000
• Six fines total: coach is fined $4,000
• Seven-plus fines total: coach is fined $5,000 each

The fined money goes to the Players' Emergency Assistance Fund.

Cousins, 32, is tied with center Tim Stutzle for the most drawn penalties on the Senators, with nine. They're also tied for 15th in the NHL in that category. San Jose Sharks center Macklin Celebrini leads the league, with 13.

As a team, the Senators have drawn 84 penalties, the sixth-most in the NHL.

Cousins has three goals and four points in 19 games. He's also at 199 career points in 661 regular-season games.

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The Pittsburgh Penguins called up former first-round pick Sam Poulin from the American Hockey League (AHL) on Nov. 18. This was in response to the Penguins placing forward Ville Koivunen on injured reserve (IR).

Poulin getting the chance to play on Pittsburgh's roster is entirely understandable. The 24-year-old forward has been having a strong season down in the AHL with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, as he has recorded seven goals, eight assists, and 15 points in 16 games. Now, he will be looking to translate some of this offense over to the NHL after getting this latest call-up to Pittsburgh's roster.

Poulin also has a big opportunity to try to prove to the Penguins that he is ready to take that next step and be a full-time NHL player. If the 2019 first-round pick can stand out during this call-up, it could very well help his chances of sticking around on the Penguins' NHL roster once they start getting healthier.

It will be very interesting to see how much of an impact Poulin can make after getting called up to Pittsburgh's roster. In 13 career NHL games over three seasons with the Penguins, Poulin has recorded two assists, six penalty minutes, and 18 hits. 

During this past season, the Chicago Blackhawks traded Taylor Hall to the Carolina Hurricanes. Seeing Hall on the move was understandable, as he was a pending unrestricted free agent (UFA), and the Blackhawks were out of the playoff hunt. 

Now, after signing a three-year, $9.5 million contract extension with the Hurricanes, Hall is in his second season in Carolina. So far, the former Blackhawks forward is having a solid start to the year, posting five goals, seven assists, 12 points, and a plus-6 rating in 19 games. 

However, Hall is only heating up as the season carries on. In his last six games with the Hurricanes, the former Blackhawks winger has posted three goals and six points. This included him scoring a goal and recording an assist in the Blackhawks' most recent contest against the Boston Bruins on Nov. 17.

With numbers like these, there is no question that Hall is giving the Hurricanes solid secondary scoring right now. He is continuing to be a solid fit on their roster, and his goal will be to stay hot from here. 

In two seasons with the Blackhawks from 2023-24 to 2024-25, Hall posted 11 goals, 17 assists, 28 points, 30 hits, and 30 blocks.