
Ben Pope
Chicago Blackhawks Beat Reporter at Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Blackhawks beat reporter for the @Suntimes. Northwestern alum. Raleigh native. @ThePHWA member. Email: [email protected]
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2 days ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Ben Pope
During this past season, then-Kraken forward Andre Burakovsky’s wife Johanna told him she wanted to visit Chicago someday. As it turns out, she won’t just get to visit the city — she’ll get to live in it. Following Burakovsky’s trade Saturday to the Blackhawks, the 30-year-old Austria native and Sweden national said Wednesday he’s excited for a new chapter in his career. “I’m going to bring the feeling that I had when I was playing [well],” Burakovsky said.
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3 days ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Ben Pope
Duncan Keith, the defensive guru behind the Blackhawks’ three recent Stanley Cup championships, is now a first-ballot Hall of Famer. Keith will be one of eight 2025 inductees into the Hockey Hall of Fame, the hall’s selection committee announced Tuesday. The induction ceremony is scheduled for Nov. 10 in Toronto. It’s the second consecutive year a Hawks legend will be inducted, following Jeremy Roenick’s long-awaited call last year.
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3 days ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Ben Pope
The weakness and ambiguity of the 2025 NHL Draft class compared to the last two has diminished some of the buzz. On Friday night during the draft itself, however, that ambiguity could create quite a bit of excitement. Nobody has a clear sense of how the first round will go. Some prospects could be taken much earlier or later than forecasted. Trades also seem likely.
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5 days ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Ben Pope
The Blackhawks will try to add a talented forward or two this offseason, but they won’t be as busy as they have been in the last several. General manager Kyle Davidson has made it clear he’s searching for quality over quantity. After signing seven new players on the first day of free agency last summer, he likely will do much less on the free-agent market this summer.
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6 days ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Ben Pope
Veteran defenseman T.J. Brodie’s dreadful season with the Blackhawks has led to the expected result. Following the opening of the NHL’s first buyout window of the offseason Thursday, the Hawks placed Brodie on waivers to initiate the buyout process Saturday, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reported. The 34-year-old had one year remaining on the two-year contract with a $3.75 million salary-cap hit that he signed last summer — a contract the Hawks quickly regretted.
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Anton Frondell's production in Sweden this season has some lofty comparables: David Pastrnak, William Nylander, Elias Pettersson. There are risks with Frondell, but there's also star potential. His Blackhawks prospect profile: https://t.co/Q3o3O6SblF

I sat down with Caleb Desnoyers at the combine to learn more about him. "If you’re better in your D-zone, you’ll get more offensive time. So I always took pride in that to get the puck." Here's his Blackhawks prospect profile: https://t.co/qTC3WrKcBG

Porter Martone raved about the Blackhawks yesterday, but it seems like the Hawks are much less sold on him. More on that in the second part of this combine notebook: https://t.co/Y2j1dk1nUl