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

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.”

THROUGH GAMES OF SATURDAY, JAN. 18, 2025

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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 ...

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The Blackhawks signed Brian Campbell a year later, and Marián Hossa a year after that. There was no distant future. There was just now. And within three years, they were Stanley Cup champions. “We just expected to win,