The Chicago Blackhawks are scheduled to make their second “Home Away From Home” NHL preseason visit to the home of the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday, taking on the St. Louis Blues at Fiserv Forum.
Here are the basics.
When do the Chicago Blackhawks and St. Louis Blues play in Milwaukee?
The exhibition game is scheduled for 7 p.m. Saturday at Fiserv Forum.
Why do the Blackhawks play at Fiserv Forum?
These games allow the team to reach people in a market 90 miles from the Blackhawks’ base at the United Center and in the case of 2022 pack an arena for an exhibition game.
Merchandise sales in 2022 were brisk with people lined up 75 deep, most of them already in Blackhawks gear, two hours before game time to buy more at the Bucks Pro Shop.
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Are tickets available for Saturday’s Blackhawks-Blues game at Fiserv Forum?
As of Wednesday there were a substantial number of seats available via Ticketmaster and other secondary market sources.
Regular-season, 23-man rosters don’t have to be set until opening night Tuesday, so exhibition games tend to involve young players fighting for spots in the NHL.
Connor Bedard lived up to the hype in his rookie season last year when he finished with 61 points (22 goals, 39 assists) in 68 games. He is just 19 years old.
Chicago signed free-agent forwards Tyler Bertuzzi (21 goals, 22 assists last year with Toronto) and Teuvo Teravainen (25 goals, 28 assists with Carolina) to help take some pressure off Bedard and to improve an offense that was the least productive in the league last season (2.17 goals per game).
Defenseman Ryan Suter , a Madison native and onetime star at the University of Wisconsin now entering his 20 th NHL season, signed with the Blues after spending the past three seasons with Dallas.
Forward Jake Neighbours is a rising star, having moved from the fourth line to the first over the course of last season. He finished with 27 goals and 11 assists in 77 games.
Although both experienced offensive dips last season, forwards Jordan Kyrou (31 goals, 36 assists in ’23-24) and Brayden Schenn (20 goals, 26 assists) remain among the team’s top scorers.
What’s the history of NHL hockey in Milwaukee?
The 2022 exhibition game between the Blackhawks and Minnesota Wild was the 12th NHL game in Milwaukee. The most recent previously was in 1999, when the Nashville Predators and St. Louis played to a 2-2 tie at the Bradley enter.
Jane and Lloyd Pettit helped pay for the construction of the Bradley Center in hopes of attracting an NHL team but then balked when hit with a $50 million expansion fee that included a payment to the Blackhawks due to the proximity.
Will Milwaukee get an NHL franchise?
Peter Feigen, president of the Bucks, said in 2022 that pursuing a team was not in the Bucks’ , arena’s or NHL’s plans, and Jaime Faulkner, president of operations for the Blackhawks, said she didn’t expect that to happen.
What other hockey can fans find in Milwaukee?
Fiserv Forum has hosted an annual four-game college showcase built around the Wisconsin Badgers over the holidays and will again this year .
The Milwaukee Admirals , the American Hockey League affiliate of the Nashville Predators, make their home at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena one block south of Fiserv.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Connor Bedard and the Blackhawks face the Blues in Milwaukee on Saturday; here's what to know
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