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Chicago Blackhawks activate former MSU hockey defenseman

Arty Levshunov’s career with the Chicago Blackhawks is beginning:

Michigan State hockey has been on an absolute heater with how well they have played under Adam Nightingale. The success of the Spartans all culminated in a Big Ten championship season in 2023-24, with a return to the NCAA Tournament.

A big part of the MSU success this past season was defenseman Arty Levshunov, who went as the No. 2 overall pick in the NHL draft to the Chicago Blackhawks. Now, his career with the organization is going to begin, being activated and sent to the AHL’s Rockford Ice Hounds:

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Former Notre Dame forward signs contract extension with Blackhawks

Good job, Landon!

Earlier in this calendar year, [autotag]Landon Slaggert[/autotag] was finishing up his collegiate career with Notre Dame. Now, he has security for his professional career for the immediate future.

Slaggert has signed a two-year, one-way contract extension with the Chicago Blackhawks, with whom he made his NHL debut late last season. His initial NHL action consisted of four points in 16 games, including one goal.

Slaggert is beginning this season with the Rockford IceHogs, the Blackhawks’ AHL affiliate. As he went straight to the Blackhawks after finishing with the Irish last season, this is his first time with that club. There’s no telling right now when and if he gets called up.

Slaggert has wasted no time in contributing to the IceHogs. He tallied one assist in a 4-1 season-opening win over the Grand Rapids Griffins, the only game they’ve played so far. He’ll get two chances to add to that assists this weekend when the IceHogs play a home-and-home against the Milwaukee Admirals:

Best of luck to Slaggert in his first full professional season.

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CHSN’s awful new score bug is so very hated by Chicago Bulls fans

This is terrible.

Have you heard about Chicago Sports Network? It’s the new regional sports network for the Blackhawks, White Sox and Bulls owned by those three Windy City franchises and Standard Media, and all that came about after their NBC Sports Chicago contract ran out.

While this is all well and good, CHSN decided to put together a vertical score bug (that’s the name for the thing on your TV that shows you the score of your game, timeouts, time left, etc). And, hoo boy, let me tell you … people DESPISE it.

It’s too big, it looks like a banner and, yeah, not great. Fans agreed:

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Former Notre Dame forward Landon Slaggert spent summer on campus

Hear some thoughts from him ahead of his first full professional season.

After Notre Dame’s 2023-24 season wrapped up, [autotag]Landon Slaggert[/autotag] made his NHL debut with the Chicago Blackhawks. Over 16 games, he tallied four points, including his first NHL goal. Now, he’s hoping to build upon that.

The Blackhawks are conducting their annual prospect camp in anticipation of a prospect tournament to be held over the weekend. Like the other prospects, Slaggert hopes to make enough of an impact that he can start the season with the parent club.

Despite this, Slaggert hasn’t forgotten about Notre Dame. In fact, he spent most of this past summer training on campus with his now-former teammates. But coming back to Chicago has put things back into perspective for him since he’s no longer at the top of the totem pole.

Only time will tell whether that’s a sign regarding whether Slaggert will break training camp with the Blackhawks. For now though, he’s focused on being the best player he can be as he enters first full season of professional hockey.

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According to a report, Michigan State hockey star defenseman won’t be back in 2024-25

MSU star defenseman may be turning pro, rather than coming back to East Lansing:

Michigan State hockey got a huge win in the 2024 NHL Entry Draft when star defenseman Artyom Levshunov was picked second overall by the Chicago Blackhawks. The high selection showed that the Spartans development program is at its best right now under Adam Nightingale.

Now under the Blackhawks control, according to a report by Ben Pope, quoting the Hawks assistant general manager, it sounds like Chicago wants Levshunov to play in the AHL next season, rather than returning to East Lansing.

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Former Notre Dame defenseman Dennis Gilbert signs with Buffalo Sabres

Who says you can’t go home?

They say you can’t go home again, but that no longer is the case for former Notre Dame defenseman [autotag]Dennis Gilbert[/autotag]. He grew up in Buffalo, New York, and now, he’ll get to play the game he loves there. Gilbert has signed a one-year contract with his hometown Sabres. He joins [autotag]Ian Cole[/autotag] among former Irish defensemen who found new homes via free agency on the same day.

The 2023-24 season was Gilbert’s most successful yet. In his first full NHL season, he scored seven points, six on assists, and had 16 penalty minutes with the Calgary Flames. He also recorded 23 shots on goal.

Over the 82 NHL games he has played with the Flames, Colorado Avalanche and Chicago Blackhawks, he has gotten in 12 fights. At a time when fights in hockey are becoming more uncommon, it’s nice to see at least one player hold up that part of the game to some degree regardless of how one feels about it.

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The NHL shamelessly reinstated disgraced ex-Blackhawks leaders right at the start of free agency

Reinstating Joel Quenneville and Stan Bowman is disgusting enough, and the NHL made it worse.

After being banned for more than two years for their roles in the Chicago Blackhawks’ sexual assault scandal with former player Kyle Beach, the NHL made the puzzling decision to reinstate ex-Chicago general manager Stan Bowman and ex-head coach Joel Quenneville to full league service on Monday afternoon.

Both are eligible to work again starting on July 10 after the NHL published a milquetoast press release citing how they’ve “demonstrated sincere remorse.”

Letting Bowman and Quenneville work in hockey in any capacity again is disgusting enough. Given their respective roles in poorly addressing a sexual assault on their own team — to say the least — they are two people who should probably never step foot near any ice rink again.

The kicker is that the NHL dropped the official announcement of Bowman and Quenneville’s reinstatement on a late Monday afternoon of an exciting start to the 2024 free agency period. Why, it’s almost as if the league wanted as little attention as possible on letting two alleged monsters work in pro hockey once more:

Every time you think the NHL has turned a corner, it goes and willingly steps on a rake like this. It is not a stretch to imagine that the league knew people would rightfully frown upon Bowman and Quenneville’s reinstatement. Because in no way, shape, or form is a two-year ban sufficient for what these two men were reportedly responsible for. Most would likely agree that their NHL bans should have been permanent.

So, rather than have a zero-tolerance policy regarding even any partial enabling of sexual assault, the NHL seemingly tried to drop the news of Bowman and Quenneville’s reinstatement right as they thought everyone who follows their animated husk of a league would be drooling over player acquisition news.

It’s transparent and it’s awful. NHL leaders who green-lighted both the reinstatements and the timing of the Bowman and Quenneville news should be ashamed.

NHL fans ripped the league’s decision and timing of Stan Bowman and Joel Quenneville’s reinstatement

Chicago Bulls announce new network partner for the 2024-25 NBA season

Fans of the Chicago Bulls, Chicago Blackhawks, and Chicago White Sox will soon have themselves a new way to take in games.

Fans of the Chicago Bulls, Chicago Blackhawks, and Chicago White Sox will soon have themselves a new way to take in games from these two local ball clubs in the NBA, NHL, and MLB, respectively. A new broadcast network for the city of Chicago’s local rooting interests across multiple leagues, aptly called the “Chicago Sports Network,” is planning to launch in October of 2024.

How will this impact fans wanting to watch their favorite team? Will it impact league pass offerings at all for Bulls fans on the NBA side of things? And how do we watch this new network anyhow — on cable, broadcast TV, or streaming?

To get to the bottom of this intriguing development in the Chicago sports landscape, the hosts of the “Locked On Bulls” podcast, Haize and Pat the Designer, took some time on a recent episode to talk over the potential impact of the “Chicago Sports Network.”

Take a look at the clip embedded above to hear what they had to say about it.

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Who is Nelly Korda’s boyfriend, Blackhawks player Andreas Athanasiou? Meet the NHL player

Meet the reported boyfriend of the LPGA star.

Nelly Korda is absolutely lighting it up on the LPGA Tour, winning tournaments left and right. And if you’re here, you might be wondering: who is she dating?

Turns out it’s reportedly a fellow professional athlete — it’s NHL veteran Andreas Athanasiou, who as of writing this just finished a season with the Chicago Blackhawks after stops in Detroit, Edmonton and Los Angeles.

The two became Instagram official in 2019, and we’ve seen them over the years at various golf events. And in 2022, she repped his Blackhawks by wearing a jersey during the CP Women’s Open.

With his 2024 season over, maybe we’ll see him at more events if they’re still together!

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Chicago Blackhawks sign Notre Dame captain Landon Slaggert to contract

Good luck, Landon!

With Notre Dame’s season officially over, captain [autotag]Landon Slaggert[/autotag] finally can turn professional. He wasted no time as one day after the Irish’s season ended, he signed a two-year entry-level deal with the Chicago Blackhawks, who drafted him in the third round of the 2020 NHL Entry Draft.

This past season, Slaggert set collegiate career highs of 31 points and 20 goals as he played 36 games. Over 136 games with the Irish, he scored 92 points, including 47 goals.

[autotag]Carter Slaggert[/autotag], Landon’s brother, just finished his first season with the Irish, scoring seven points over 32 games. He’ll be the second of his brothers to turn pro after former Irish captain [autotag]Graham Slaggert[/autotag], who has played this season with the Rochester Americans of the AHL.

Thanks to Landon for his years of service to the Irish, and it’s great that the Slaggert family will continue to be part of the program for a little longer. In the meantime, good luck to Landon in the pros.

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