After games on the west coast, the Nashville Predators traveled a little closer to home for tonight’s matchup against a struggling Chicago Blackhawks team.
The Blackhawks are in turmoil both on and off the ice, with a 1-9-2 record so far this season, leadership embroiled in the fallout of a sexual assault scandal from 2010, and the firing yesterday of head coach Jeremy Colliton. The Blackhawks named Derek King interim head coach, and he took the helm for the first time tonight. Marc-Andre Fleury took the night off, and Kevin Lankinen took his place in net for Chicago.