Practice and retraction....

First let me start with a retraction. I have to say that the video reply in the NHL is out of hand. As a result of Toronto reviewing all goals well into the night after the games, TVR will now need to continue to look for his first ever NHL goal. Awarded, instead, his first NHL assist.Come one NHL!! Let's let this stuff go after the first review during the game and move on. Recalling this is stupid. BTW - Versteeg was handed the goal.

On to this mornings practice:
Missing from practice were Hossa, Richards and Carcillo.  [Sharp we already know about, right?] Hossa and Richards "are fine and will play tomorrow," according to Q. I stayed late and never saw Carcillo come out to skate. He has skated for the past couple of days and may be planning something later in the day.

Raanta was the first on the ice for some early warm ups. He also stayed after the half hour official practice working with Waite. Andrew Shaw was the first skater on the the ice and the last to leave. He did a lot of shooting practice but no tip-in practice.

Q conducted a lot of practice that entailed multiple passes. After last night's second period I am not surprised. What did surprise me is that there was no board battle practice. This could be tomorrow before the game.

After the official practice Raanta and others stayed about for almost the rest of the hour. Shaw, Smith, Regin, Kruger and Morin spend a lot of time working with Kevin Dineen on picking up pucks and shooting. Rozsival and van Riemsdyk worked with Kitch on point shot practice.

Lines for today were:
23 - 19 - 88
29 - 65 - 20
28 - 16 - 32
(Rozsival in for Hossa. Likely out for tomorrow.)
11 - 65 - 12
(Shaw working REALLY hard today double shifting to fill in for Richards)
So the Quenneville  blender has been turned off for the moment.

It was pretty hard to put together any defensive pairing due to the drills that were being run. Q did indicate that Seabrook and Keith "could" be together again tomorrow night. Put that through my Q secret decoder ring... They WILL be together tomorrow.

#Blackhawks #TrevorvanRiemsdyk #ChrisVersteeg #MarianHossa #BradRichards #DannyCarcillo #AnttiRaanta #AndrewShaw