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All in regulation.

Fray Nazar leaves the game after getting hit in the face with the puck.

I'm a little bit without answers here.

I mean, you don't have Connor Bedard, which is an obvious, yes,

that hurts the team big time. I just don't like the stuff I've seen since he went down.

I was hoping I'd see a little more fight, a little more pushback from the Blackhawks, a little

more saying, you know what, our best player is out,

we're going to step up and do this thing. And they haven't been able to do it. 6-4, fine. They didn't really back down. They kept punching back. But every time they did, the puck would end up in the back of their net. It's just frustrating. And it feels like this is how it's going to be until Bedard is back. And that's a tough pill to swallow.

Yeah, I mean, you're already fighting that battle. this is how it's going to be until Bedard is back. And that's a tough pill to swallow.

Yeah, I mean, you're already fighting that battle to not have counter

Bred.

And now you lose Frank Nazar in this game.

And I mean, to not have Badaard and to not have Nazar and to not have Nazar.

And you get four goals like,

hey, that's more offense than I think you would have expected

if you came in to, if you came away from this game and said,

you'd have no badard and no Nazar for 57 minutes of this game

and you get four goals.

You're kind of like, oh, wow, someone must have stepped up.

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