The Chicago Blackhawks rallied from a 1-0 deficit in the first period with two goals in the second, but they lost 3-2 in a shootout. Connor Bedard scored for the second straight game.

Connor Bedard scored from a seemingly impossible angle in the Blackhawks 4-1 win over the Lightning on Tuesday.

Bertuzzi and Teuvo Teravainen have been solid signings for Hawks general manager Kyle Davidson, but the rest of his moves have added very little this season.

If Reichel can emerge as a useful player for Chicago, it would be a huge development for a team that has all but written him off already.

“The Blackhawks — like every other team in the league — should be trying to move heaven and Earth to pry Elias Pettersson out of Vancouver,” Lazerus wrote. “Pettersson can make Bedard and the Blackhawks better immediately, and he’s young enough to fit Chicago’s longer-term timeline.”

The Blackhawks signed Brian Campbell a year later, and Marián Hossa a year after that. There was no distant future. There was just now. And within three years, they were Stanley Cup champions. “We just expected to win,

(AP Photo/George Walker IV) Nashville Predators center Ryan O’Reilly (90) and Chicago Blackhawks center Connor Bedard (98 ... blocks a shot on goal by Chicago Blackhawks right wing Ilya Mikheyev (95) during the first period of an NHL hockey game Thursday ...

Nashville went 3-for-3 in the team's first shootout of the season with goals from Gustav Nyquist, Ryan O'Reilly Steven Stamkos,

Warning: What you are about to read has no factual basis and is not rooted in journalism, it's purely from my own mind and came to me in a kind of fever dream. What can I say, these brutal seasons are doing serious damage to my psyche, and liver..

I don’t know, from what it feels like, it should be high,” Nazar said with a smile. And Nazar would be correct. Outside of Ryan Donato, a one-man shooting machine, Nazar is second among the Blackhawks over the last 18 games with 7.