A teammate of Connor Bedard has voiced a very powerful message to Chicago Blackhawks interim coach Anders Sorensen about his playing time.

Kurashev has sat in the press box more often than not. He is point-less in his last 11 games, and when he has played over the last month, he averaged less than 13:30 of

Kurashev has fallen from 54-point scorer to lineup exile in four short months. With his contract up after this season, the writing is already on the wall.

Connor Bedard extended his point streak to nine games, but the Chicago Blackhawks played one of their worst second periods of the season Friday in a 5-3 loss to the Detroit Red Wings.

Connor Bedard has an incredible eight-game point ... to find something that worked for Bedard, especially since Philipp Kurashev, his linemate from last year, took a step back and has been scratched.

“The Blackhawks—like every other team in the league—should be trying to move heaven and Earth to pry Elias Pettersson out of Vancouver,” Lazerus wrote. “Pettersson can make Bedard and the Blackhawks better immediately, and he’s young enough to fit Chicago’s longer-term timeline.”

Despite one of the worst periods of hockey played by the Blackhawks, they managed to lose by 2 goals against a hot Red Wings team.

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"It's just day by day, trying to improve the group — what we have right now — and not trying to look too far down the road," Sorensen said.

The Chicago Blackhawks looked like they would meet the challenge of a top-tier Edmonton Oilers team. But that notion faded quickly in the second period of a 4-3 loss.

The article listed Philipp Kurashev as “in danger of failing ... that this column listed as the “class president.” Connor Bedard has turned it up a couple of notches over the last ...

CHICAGO- The Chicago Blackhawks know that they have a stud in Connor Bedard. There are detractors because there are other parts of his game that need work (as is the case for every teenage NHL ...