How to Watch Chicago Blackhawks at Utah Hockey Club: Stream NHL, TV Channel

Connor Bedard and the Blackhawks open their season on the road as Utah plays its inaugural home game

Reigning NHL Rookie of the Year Connor Bedard makes his 2024-25 debut tonight with a retooled top line as the Chicago Blackhawks open the season on a four-game Western Conference road trip against the Utah Hockey Club, in the Beehive State’s first foray into the NHL. Utah moves from Arizona where the Coyotes were unable to secure arena funding selling to Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith who added Dylan Guenther to the roster on an eight-year, $57 million deal to play alongside Logan Cooley and add another scoring weapon to the talented Clayton Keller who comes into this season off consecutive 30-plus goal seasons.

How to Watch Chicago Blackhawks at Utah Hockey Club:

Game Date: Oct 8, 2024 

Game Time: 10:00 p.m. ET

TV Channel: ESPN

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Bedard, the number one overall pick in the 2023 NHL Draft, led Chicago in goals and assists despite missing most of January with a broken jaw. The 19-year-old center will be paired on the Blackhawks top line with wingers Ilya Mikheyev and Teuvo Teravainen who signed with Chicago in the offseason.

Though not technically an expansion franchise, Utah has 14 players on tonight’s roster who played for Arizona last season alongside coach Andre Tourigny who saw a 13-point improvement between his first and second years at the helm of the Coyotes franchise. Given the successes of other recent expansion clubs in Vegas and Seattle, it is not out of the realm of possibility Utah makes the postseason this year.

Chicago finished last season 32^nd in the NHL with 178 goals scored and ended with the fourth most goals allowed missing out on the playoffs for the fourth consecutive seasons.

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