2019–20 Chicago Blackhawks season

2019–20 Chicago Blackhawks
Division	7th Central
Conference	12th Western
2019–20 record	32–30–8
Home record	16–14–4
Road record	16–16–4
Goals for	212
Goals against	218
General Manager	Stan Bowman
Coach	Jeremy Colliton
Captain	Jonathan Toews
Alternate captains	Duncan Keith Patrick Kane (Dec.–) Brent Seabrook
Arena	United Center
Team leaders
Goals	Patrick Kane (33)
Assists	Patrick Kane (51)
Points	Patrick Kane (84)
Penalties in minutes	Jonathan Toews (48)
Wins	Corey Crawford Robin Lehner (16)
Goals against average	Corey Crawford (2.77)

The 2019–20 Chicago Blackhawks season was the 94th season for the National Hockey League franchise that was established on September 25, 1926. The Blackhawks were led by head coach Jeremy Colliton in his first full year as head coach.

The season was suspended by the league officials on March 12, 2020, after several other professional and collegiate sports organizations followed suit as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. On May 26, the NHL regular season was officially declared over with the remaining games being cancelled. The Blackhawks advanced to the playoffs for the first time since the 2016–17 season, but were defeated in the first round by the Vegas Golden Knights in five games.

Standings

Divisional standings

2019-20 NHL Central Division standings

Pos.	Team	GP	W	L	OL	RW	GF	GA	Pct.
1	St.Louis Blues	71	42	19	10	33	225	193	.662
2	Colorado Avalanche	70	42	20	8	37	237	191	.657
3	Dallas Stars	69	37	24	8	26	180	177	.594
4	Nashville Predators	69	35	26	8	28	215	217	.565
5	Winnipeg Jets	71	37	28	6	30	216	203	.563
6	Minnesota Wild	69	35	27	7	30	220	220	.558
7	Chicago Blackhawks	70	32	30	8	23	212	218	.514

Western Conference

2019-20 NHL Western Conference standings

Pos.	Team	GP	W	L	OL	RW	GF	GA	Pct.
1	St.Louis Blues	71	42	19	10	33	225	193	.662
2	Colorado Avalanche	70	42	20	8	37	237	191	.657
3	Vegas Golden Knights	71	39	24	8	30	227	211	.606
4	Dallas Stars	69	37	24	8	26	180	177	.594
5	Edmonton Oilers	71	37	25	9	31	225	217	.585
6	Nashville Predators	69	35	26	8	28	215	217	.565
7	Vancouver Canucks	69	36	27	6	27	228	217	.565
8	Calgary Flames	70	36	27	7	25	210	215	.564
9	Winnipeg Jets	71	37	28	6	30	216	203	.563
10	Minnesota Wild	69	35	27	7	30	220	220	.558
11	Arizona Coyotes	70	33	29	8	26	195	187	.529
12	Chicago Blackhawks	70	32	30	8	23	212	218	.514
13	Anaheim Ducks	71	29	33	9	20	187	226	.472
14	Los Angeles Kings	70	29	35	6	21	178	212	.457
15	San Jose Sharks	70	29	36	5	22	182	226	.450

Tiebreaking procedures

1. Fewer number of games played (only used during regular season).
2. Greater number of regulation wins (denoted by RW).
3. Greater amount of wins in regulation and overtime (excluding shootout wins; denoted by ROW).
4. Greater amount of total wins (including shootouts).
5. Greater number of points earned in head-to-head play; if teams played an uneven number of head-to-head games, the result of the first game on the home ice of the team with the extra home game is discarded.
6. Greater goal differential (difference between goals for and goals against).
7. Greater amount of goals scored (denoted by GF).

Schedule and results

Preseason

The preseason schedule was published on June 18, 2019.

2019 preseason game log: 3–3–1 (Home: 2–1–0 ; Road: 1–2–1)
#	Date	Opponent	Score	OT	Decision	Arena	Attendance	Record	Recap
1	September 16	@ Washington	3–4	OT	Delia	Capital One Arena	14,517	0–0–1	O1
2	September 17	@ Detroit	3–5		Lankinen	Little Caesars Arena	15,108	0–1–1	L1
3	September 18	Detroit	2–1		Crawford	United Center	20,523	1–1–1	W1
4	September 21	Boston	3–2	OT	Lehner	United Center	20,611	2–1–1	W2
5	September 25	Washington	0–6		Crawford	United Center	20,239	2–2–1	L1
6	September 28	@ Boston	2–8		Lankinen	TD Garden	17,565	2–3–1	L2
7	September 29	@ Eisbären Berlin	3–1		Lehner	Mercedes-Benz Arena	—	3–3–1	W1

Regular season

The regular season schedule was published on June 25, 2019.

2019–20 game log
October: 3–6–2 (Home: 3–3–2 ; Road: 0–3–0) # Date Opponent Score OT Decision Arena Attendance Record Pts Recap 1 October 4 @ Philadelphia 3–4 Crawford O2 Arena 17,463 0–1–0 0 L1 2 October 10 San Jose 4–5 Crawford United Center 21,455 0–2–0 0 L2 3 October 12 Winnipeg 2–3 OT Lehner United Center 21,340 0–2–1 1 O1 4 October 14 Edmonton 3–1 Crawford United Center 21,260 1–2–1 3 W1 5 October 18 Columbus 3–2 OT Lehner United Center 21,518 2–2–1 5 W2 6 October 20 Washington 3–5 Crawford United Center 21,187 2–3–1 5 L1 7 October 22 Vegas 1–2 SO Lehner United Center 21,172 2–3–2 6 O1 8 October 24 Philadelphia 1–4 Lehner United Center 21,315 2–4–2 6 L1 9 October 26 @ Carolina 0–4 Crawford PNC Arena 15,738 2–5–2 6 L2 10 October 27 Los Angeles 5–1 Lehner United Center 21,334 3–5–2 8 W1 11 October 29 @ Nashville 0–3 Lehner Bridgestone Arena 17,259 3–6–2 8 L1
November: 7–5–3 (Home: 4–3–0 ; Road: 3–2–3) # Date Opponent Score OT Decision Arena Attendance Record Pts Recap 12 November 2 @ Los Angeles 3–4 OT Crawford Staples Center 18,230 3–6–3 9 O1 13 November 3 @ Anaheim 3–2 OT Lehner Honda Center 15,576 4–6–3 11 W1 14 November 5 @ San Jose 2–4 Lehner SAP Center 16,087 4–7–3 11 L1 15 November 7 Vancouver 5–2 Crawford United Center 21,418 5–7–3 13 W1 16 November 9 @ Pittsburgh 2–3 SO Crawford PPG Paints Arena 18,653 5–7–4 14 O1 17 November 10 Toronto 5–4 Lehner United Center 21,598 6–7–4 16 W1 18 November 13 @ Vegas 5–3 Crawford T-Mobile Arena 18,324 7–7–4 18 W2 19 November 16 @ Nashville 7–2 Lehner Bridgestone Arena 17,393 8–7–4 20 W3 20 November 17 Buffalo 4–1 Crawford United Center 21,334 9–7–4 22 W4 21 November 19 Carolina 2–4 Lehner United Center 21,325 9–8–4 22 L1 22 November 21 Tampa Bay 2–4 Crawford United Center 21,336 9–9–4 22 L2 23 November 23 @ Dallas 1–2 SO Lehner American Airlines Center 18,532 9–9–5 23 O1 24 November 26 Dallas 3–0 Crawford United Center 21,210 10–9–5 25 W1 25 November 29 Colorado 2–5 Crawford United Center 21,822 10–10–5 25 L1 26 November 30 @ Colorado 3–7 Lehner Pepsi Center 18,015 10–11–5 25 L2
December: 8–6–1 (Home: 2–3–1 ; Road: 6–3–0) # Date Opponent Score OT Decision Arena Attendance Record Pts Recap 27 December 2 St. Louis 0–4 Crawford United Center 21,204 10–12–5 25 L3 28 December 5 @ Boston 4–3 OT Lehner TD Garden 17,850 11–12–5 27 W1 29 December 6 @ New Jersey 2–1 SO Crawford Prudential Center 15,273 12–12–5 29 W2 30 December 8 Arizona 3–4 SO Lehner United Center 21,232 12–12–6 30 O1 31 December 10 @ Vegas 1–5 Crawford T-Mobile Arena 18,319 12–13–6 30 L1 32 December 12 @ Arizona 2–5 Lehner Gila River Arena 13,150 12–14–6 30 L2 33 December 14 @ St. Louis 3–4 Crawford Enterprise Center 18,096 12–15–6 30 L3 34 December 15 Minnesota 5–3 Lehner United Center 21,513 13–15–6 32 W1 35 December 18 Colorado 1–4 Crawford United Center 21,481 13–16–6 32 L1 36 December 19 @ Winnipeg 4–1 Lehner Bell MTS Place 15,325 14–16–6 34 W1 37 December 21 @ Colorado 5–3 Lehner Pepsi Center 18,056 15–16–6 36 W2 38 December 23 New Jersey 1–7 Crawford United Center 21,559 15–17–6 36 L1 39 December 27 NY Islanders 5–2 Lehner United Center 21,747 16–17–6 38 W1 40 December 29 @ Columbus 3–2 SO Lehner Nationwide Arena 18,544 17–17–6 40 W2 41 December 31 @ Calgary 5–3 Lehner Scotiabank Saddledome 19,289 18–17–6 42 W3
January: 6–4–0 (Home: 3–3–0 ; Road: 3–1–0) # Date Opponent Score OT Decision Arena Attendance Record Pts Recap 42 January 2 @ Vancouver 5–7 Lehner Rogers Arena 18,871 18–18–6 42 L1 43 January 5 Detroit 4–2 Crawford United Center 21,493 19–18–6 44 W1 44 January 7 Calgary 1–2 Crawford United Center 21,274 19–19–6 44 L1 45 January 9 Nashville 2–5 Crawford United Center 21,440 19–20–6 44 L2 46 January 11 Anaheim 4–2 Lehner United Center 21,548 20–20–6 46 W1 47 January 14 @ Ottawa 3–2 OT Lehner Canadian Tire Centre 12,238 21–20–6 48 W2 48 January 15 @ Montreal 4–1 Crawford Bell Centre 21,302 22–20–6 50 W3 49 January 18 @ Toronto 6–2 Crawford Scotiabank Arena 19,502 23–20–6 52 W4 50 January 19 Winnipeg 5–2 Lehner United Center 21,487 24–20–6 54 W5 51 January 21 Florida 3–4 Lehner United Center 21,559 24–21–6 54 L1
February: 5–7–2 (Home: 1–1–1 ; Road: 4–6–1) # Date Opponent Score OT Decision Arena Attendance Record Pts Recap 52 February 1 @ Arizona 3–2 SO Crawford Gila River Arena 17,125 25–21–6 56 W1 53 February 4 @ Minnesota 2–3 OT Crawford Xcel Energy Center 17,341 25–21–7 57 O1 54 February 5 Boston 1–2 OT Lehner United Center 21,472 25–21–8 58 O2 55 February 9 @ Winnipeg 2–5 Crawford Bell MTS Place 15,325 25–22–8 58 L1 56 February 11 @ Edmonton 3–5 Lehner Rogers Place 17,066 25–23–8 58 L2 57 February 12 @ Vancouver 0–3 Crawford Rogers Arena 18,871 25–24–8 58 L3 58 February 15 @ Calgary 8–4 Lehner Scotiabank Saddledome 19,231 26–24–8 60 W1 59 February 16 @ Winnipeg 2–3 Crawford Bell MTS Place 15,325 26–25–8 60 L1 60 February 19 NY Rangers 3–6 Lehner United Center 21,573 26–26–8 60 L2 61 February 21 Nashville 2–1 OT Crawford United Center 21,878 27–26–8 62 W1 62 February 23 @ Dallas 1–2 Crawford American Airlines Center 18,532 27–27–8 62 L1 63 February 25 @ St. Louis 5–6 Crawford Enterprise Center 18,096 27–28–8 62 L2 64 February 27 @ Tampa Bay 5–2 Crawford Amalie Arena 19,092 28–28–8 64 W1 65 February 29 @ Florida 3–2 SO Crawford BB&T Center 16,055 29–28–8 66 W2
March: 3–2–0 (Home: 3–1–0 ; Road: 0–1–0) # Date Opponent Score OT Decision Arena Attendance Record Pts Recap 66 March 3 Anaheim 6–2 Crawford United Center 21,345 30–28–8 68 W3 67 March 5 Edmonton 4–3 Crawford United Center 21,481 31–28–8 70 W4 68 March 6 @ Detroit 1–2 Crawford Little Caesars Arena 19,515 31–29–8 70 L1 69 March 8 St. Louis 0–2 Crawford United Center 21,815 31–30–8 70 L2 70 March 11 San Jose 6–2 Crawford United Center 21,275 32–30–8 72 W1
Cancelled games # Date Opponent Arena 71 March 13 Ottawa United Center 72 March 14 @ Washington Capital One Arena 73 March 17 @ Minnesota Xcel Energy Center 74 March 19 Minnesota United Center 75 March 21 @ Buffalo KeyBank Center 76 March 22 Nashville United Center 77 March 25 Pittsburgh United Center 78 March 27 Dallas United Center 79 March 29 Los Angeles United Center 80 March 31 Montreal United Center 81 April 2 @ NY Islanders Nassau Coliseum 82 April 4 @ NY Rangers Madison Square Garden
Legend:       Win (2 points)       Loss (0 points)       Overtime/shootout loss (1 point)

Playoffs

The Blackhawks faced the Edmonton Oilers in the qualifying round, defeating them in four games.

The Blackhawks faced the Vegas Golden Knights in the first round, losing in five games.

Detailed records

Western Conference Opponent Home Away Total Pts GF GA Central Division Chicago Blackhawks — — — — — — Colorado Avalanche 0–2–0 1–1–0 1–3–0 2 11 19 Dallas Stars 1–0–0 0–1–1 1–1–1 3 5 4 Minnesota Wild 1–0–0 0–0–1 1–0–1 3 7 6 Nashville Predators 1–1–0 1–1–0 2–2–0 4 11 11 St. Louis Blues 0–2–0 0–2–0 0–4–0 0 8 16 Winnipeg Jets 1–0–1 1–2–0 2–2–1 5 15 14 Total 4–5–1 3–7–2 7–12–3 17 57 70 Pacific Division Anaheim Ducks 2–0–0 1–0–0 3–0–0 6 13 6 Arizona Coyotes 0–0–1 1–1–0 1–1–1 3 8 11 Calgary Flames 0–1–0 2–0–0 2–1–0 4 14 9 Edmonton Oilers 2–0–0 0–1–0 3–1–0 4 10 9 Los Angeles Kings 1–0–0 0–0–1 1–0–1 3 8 5 San Jose Sharks 1–1–0 0–1–0 1–2–0 2 12 11 Vancouver Canucks 1–0–0 0–2–0 1–2–0 2 10 12 Vegas Golden Knights 0–0–1 1–1–0 1–1–1 3 7 10 Total 7–2–2 5–6–1 12–8–3 27 82 73

Eastern Conference Opponent Home Away Total Pts GF GA Atlantic Division Boston Bruins 0–0–1 1–0–0 1–0–1 3 5 5 Buffalo Sabres 1–0–0 0–0–0 1–0–0 2 4 1 Detroit Red Wings 1–0–0 0–1–0 1–1–0 2 5 4 Florida Panthers 0–1–0 1–0–0 1–1–0 2 6 6 Montreal Canadiens 0–0–0 1–0–0 1–0–0 2 4 1 Ottawa Senators 0–0–0 1–0–0 1–0–0 2 3 2 Tampa Bay Lightning 0–1–0 1–0–0 1–1–0 2 7 6 Toronto Maple Leafs 1–0–0 1–0–0 2–0–0 4 11 6 Total 3–2–1 6–1–0 9–3–1 19 45 31 Metropolitan Division Carolina Hurricanes 0–1–0 0–1–0 0–2–0 0 2 8 Columbus Blue Jackets 1–0–0 1–0–0 2–0–0 4 6 4 New Jersey Devils 0–1–0 1–0–0 1–1–0 2 3 8 New York Islanders 1–0–0 0–0–0 1–0–0 2 5 2 New York Rangers 0–1–0 0–0–0 0–1–0 0 3 6 Philadelphia Flyers 0–1–0 0–1–0 0–2–0 0 4 8 Pittsburgh Penguins 0–0–0 0–0–1 0–0–1 1 2 3 Washington Capitals 0–1–0 0–0–0 0–1–0 0 3 5 Total 2–5–0 2–2–1 4–7–1 9 28 44

Player statistics

Skaters

Regular season Player GP G A Pts +/− PIM Kane, PatrickPatrick Kane 70 33 51 84 8 40 Toews, JonathanJonathan Toews 70 18 42 60 −2 48 Kubalik, DominikDominik Kubalik 68 30 16 46 2 16 DeBrincat, AlexAlex DeBrincat 70 18 27 45 −10 15 Strome, DylanDylan Strome 58 12 26 38 1 16 Saad, BrandonBrandon Saad 58 21 12 33 2 16 Keith, DuncanDuncan Keith 61 3 24 27 1 18 Nylander, AlexanderAlexander Nylander 65 10 16 26 −2 10 Gustafsson, ErikErik Gustafsson ‡ || 59 || 6 || 20 || 26 || −8 || 25 Dach, KirbyKirby Dach 64 8 15 23 −1 24 Murphy, ConnorConnor Murphy 58 5 14 19 2 27 Maatta, OlliOlli Maatta 65 4 13 17 0 20 Kampf, DavidDavid Kampf 70 8 8 16 −11 8 Caggiula, DrakeDrake Caggiula 40 9 6 15 −3 32 Carpenter, RyanRyan Carpenter 69 3 12 15 −6 28 Boqvist, AdamAdam Boqvist 41 4 9 13 −3 6 Smith, ZackZack Smith 50 4 7 11 2 29 Shaw, AndrewAndrew Shaw 26 3 7 10 −4 33 Koekkoek, SlaterSlater Koekkoek 42 1 9 10 3 42 Highmore, MatthewMatthew Highmore 36 2 4 6 −1 6 de Haan, CalvinCalvin de Haan 29 1 5 6 10 10 Seabrook, BrentBrent Seabrook 32 3 1 4 1 8 Sikura, DylanDylan Sikura 9 1 2 3 1 0 Gilbert, DennisDennis Gilbert 21 1 2 3 −8 38 Carlsson, LucasLucas Carlsson 6 0 1 1 3 0 Seeler, NickNick Seeler † || 6 || 0 || 1 || 1 || −2 || 7 Quenneville, JohnJohn Quenneville 9 0 0 0 −1 0 Hagel, BrandonBrandon Hagel 1 0 0 0 0 0 Beaudin, NicolasNicolas Beaudin 1 0 0 0 1 0 Wedin, AntonAnton Wedin 4 0 0 0 1 4 Perlini, BrendanBrendan Perlini ‡ || 1 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0

Playoffs Player GP G A Pts +/− PIM Toews, JonathanJonathan Toews 9 5 4 9 −2 2 Kane, PatrickPatrick Kane 9 2 7 9 0 2 Kubalik, DominikDominik Kubalik 9 4 4 8 −2 4 Maatta, OlliOlli Maatta 9 3 3 6 7 4 DeBrincat, AlexAlex DeBrincat 9 2 4 6 4 9 Dach, KirbyKirby Dach 9 1 5 6 3 4 Saad, BrandonBrandon Saad 9 2 3 5 2 2 Keith, DuncanDuncan Keith 9 0 5 5 −7 4 Highmore, MatthewMatthew Highmore 9 3 1 4 −1 2 Murphy, ConnorConnor Murphy 9 0 4 4 −1 4 Strome, DylanDylan Strome 9 2 1 3 −3 2 Koekkoek, SlaterSlater Koekkoek 9 1 2 3 4 2 Caggiula, DrakeDrake Caggiula 8 1 2 3 0 2 Kampf, DavidDavid Kampf 9 1 0 1 0 6 Carpenter, RyanRyan Carpenter 9 0 1 1 −4 0 de Haan, CalvinCalvin de Haan 9 0 1 1 1 0 Nylander, AlexanderAlexander Nylander 8 0 0 0 −4 2 Boqvist, AdamAdam Boqvist 8 0 0 0 −5 4 Carlsson, LucasLucas Carlsson 1 0 0 0 −2 0 Quenneville, JohnJohn Quenneville 2 0 0 0 −1 0

Goaltenders

Regular season

Player	GP	GS	TOI	W	L	OT	GA	GAA	SA	SV%	SO	G	A	PIM
Lehner, RobinRobin Lehner ‡ || 33 || 31 || 1,875:28 || 16 || 10 || 5 || 94 || 3.01 || 1,152 || .918 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 4
Crawford, CoreyCorey Crawford	40	39	2,340:03	16	20	3	108	2.77	1,294	.917	1	0	0	0
Subban, MalcolmMalcolm Subban	1	0	1:10	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1.000	0	0	0	0

Playoffs

Player	GP	GS	TOI	W	L	GA	GAA	SA	SV%	SO	G	A	PIM
Crawford, CoreyCorey Crawford	9	9	544:01	4	5	30	3.31	324	.907	0	0	0	0

^†Denotes player spent time with another team before joining the Blackhawks. Stats reflect time with the Blackhawks only.
^‡Denotes player was traded mid-season. Stats reflect time with the Blackhawks only.
Bold/italics denotes franchise record.