Chicago Blackhawks: The first preseason game’s lineup is amazing

The Chicago Blackhawks are expected to be a very bad team in 2022-23. It is obvious that they have their eyes on the lottery to help them along in their rebuild. However, as it stands, they still have some great players on the team that want to win.

They are not going to win on this team anytime soon but they could end up going to win somewhere else.

They have to show themselves with the Hawks to start the year and it begins in the preseason. The Hawks will take on the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday night at 7:30 PM CT.

A lineup for the game with lines, defense pairs, and goalies has already come out. They are going to be using a lot of exciting players in this game which should be a lot of fun to watch. The fans at the United Center are in for a nice preseason treat ahead of what promises to be a hard year.

The Chicago Blackhawks have a fun lineup for their first preseason home game.

As you can see, Patrick Kane, Seth Jones, and Jonathan Toews are all in the first game of the exhibition season. Those are the team’s three best players that may or may not finish out the year with the team. It will be important to see how they start off as that will determine their value.

This is going to be the first time that we can see Max Domi and Andreas Athanasiou suit up for the Blackhawks. Again, we don’t know if they will be used as trade chips as well but this is their first chance to play in a game for the Hawks against an opponent in a different sweater.

There are a few nice rookies that are in this lineup but the one to be most excited about is Kevin Korchinski who was the first of three first-round picks made by Chicago at the 2022 NHL Draft.

In all likelihood, he will get a few preseason games in before being sent back to the WHL for the season. Samuel Savoie and Ethan Del Mastro will also get in this game.

Petr Mrazek and Alex Stalock are the two goalies dressing for this game. Mrazek will start but both should see some time in the crease as the game goes along. To be honest, expect it to be close to 50 percent of the time for each.

We are going to learn a lot about this team in its first preseason game. We won’t know everything about the team by any means but it is a chance to see where certain guys at compared to where we think they should be. The best news is that hockey is officially back in town.