Coach Joel Quenneville said late last week that it wasn’t wise to read too much into the Blackhawks’ lines at the time.
On Monday you could read more into those lines, and the top two looked pretty familiar.
Marian Hossa was back with Jonathan Toews, with Richard Panik on the left wing, and the second line of Artemi Panarin, Artem Anisimov and Patrick Kane was together again as the Blackhawks prepped for Wednesday’s regular-season opener against the St. Louis Blues.
With Andrew Desjardins out 4-6 weeks with a lower-body injury, their bottom two lines are youth heavy.