In the second period of last night’s win over St. Louis, a Blues player fell hard on Teuvo Teravainen’s right ankle. Teravainen played the remainder of the second period but didn’t return for the third.
Jeff Blashill told media that Teravainen would not travel with the team to Long Island for their game against the Islanders Thursday, and that updates would come in the next few days.
After now losing both Teravainen and forward Andrew Mangiapane, who was announced week-to-week on October 5, the Blackhawks have to call up somebody from the AHL.
Many people would have expected the first call up to be either Landon Slaggert or AJ Spellacy. Rather, the Blackhawks have decided to go with the 32-year-old veteran Dominic Toninato.
Toninato played eight games with the Blackhawks last season where he notched one assist. Toninato is a responsible fourth line caliber center who can be trusted to make the right play.
This makes me wonder, with Teravainen out, what does the second like look like?
Assuming Blashill doesn’t touch the first line of Frank Nazar, Roman Kantserov, and Patrick Kane, who joins Anton Frondell and Tyler Bertuzzi on line two? Both lines have been clicking, so it’s important to not mix them up or mess with chemistry too much.
My first instinct is to bump up Nick Lardis from the third line, however, Lardis has looked out of place to start this season. He looked particularly bad when playing with Frondell. Frondell has four points in his last two games. He is finally going and you don’t want to mess with that.
Does Oliver Moore or Ryan Donato get another shot in the top six?
