The Chicago Blackhawks travel north to Toronto as the Blackhawks and Maple Leafs each try to put an end to a two-game losing skid.
The Leafs’ season to date has been defined by inconsistency and unmet expectations: instead of sitting comfortably in the Atlantic mix, they find themselves a handful of spots outside the playoff picture, stuck in the muddled middle of the Eastern Conference. The wins haven’t come in bunches, defensive lapses have been a recurring issue, and the overall produc...
After the morning skate, Blackhawks head coach Jeff Blashill confirmed that rookie defenseman Artyom Levshunov will be a healthy scratch on Tuesday night in Toronto.
Levshunov was late getting to the rink for practice on Monday, so it was disciplinary — not based on his play. This is another reminder that this season is about setting standards for everyone involved. I like the move by head coach Jeff Blashill.
It helps that the Blackhawks called up a seventh defenseman before th...
The Chicago Bears injury report will be worth keeping tabs on this week. Not only are we on high alert since it is Packers Week, it is worth highlighting that there are a handful of Bears injury updates that we will monitor obsessively because they are potential game-changers. For good measure, that we’re adding to the mix that it is a short week with these two teams playing on Saturday complicates matters a bit.
Bears injury updates ahead of Week 16 game vs. Packers
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The 2012 Cubs were, by design, a bad team. New President of Baseball Operations Theo Epstein had torn down the previous structure to rebuild, and what was left was not very good. After an unexpectedly good 15-10 July, the Cubs began August winning just six of their first 24 games, never winning more than one […]
1) I don’t care how tired people were of the Kansas City Chiefs’ dynasty or the Green Bay Packers being a thorn in the Chicago Bears’ side. No one wants to see Patrick Mahomes and Micah Parsons, two of the best players in the game, tear their ACLs on the same day. It’s terrible for […]
When it rains in Chicago, it pours. With not much to celebrate day to day for the Chicago Bulls, the one thing we’ve always had was Michael Jordan and his legendary run in the Windy City. But here comes Stephen Curry, breaking not one, but two Jordan records — with another major one approaching soon.
So, what were the TWO Michael Jordan records broken?
Let me read you the charges facing the Baby-Faced Assassin.
On December 12, in a game against the Minnesota Timberwolves, Curry ...
For the first time since 1977, the White Sox have the first overall draft pick in the summer draft, and the timing couldn’t be more favorable. In a top-heavy draft, Chicago doesn’t have to guess who may fall to them. After wisely picking future Hall-of-Famer Harold Baines in 1977, the Sox are hoping to make […]
Let’s run through another 2026 NFL Mock Draft.
With Fernando Mendoza taking home the Heisman Trophy, is he a lock to be the first quarterback off the board in this spring’s NFL Draft ? That’s unlikely with the College Football Playoff still to be played out. Plus, the Kansas City Chiefs will be in a position to take a playmaker, and the Bears will look to add more defensive line help.
2026 NFL Mock Draft
1. New York Jets (via NYG): QB Fernando Mendoza – Indiana
If the Giant...
A chance at redemption.
Things are about to get crazy to finish the 2025 NFL season. With just three games remaining, we have teams like the Lions fighting with everything they’ve got to get into the playoffs. Let’s look at the odds for the Lions, Ravens, and more to reach the postseason.
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Teams like the Chargers (10-4), Bears (10-4), and Packers (9-4-1) are in good positions to reach the postseason, while others have more of an uphill...
The Chicago Bears took care of business Sunday, by the way of smoking the Cleveland Browns at Soldier Field. It was the comfortable, dominant win fans have been hoping for all season. For it to come in a spot many had labeled a trap, and right in between the two meetings against the Green Bay […]
Before diving into Bears (and Bears-adjacent) stuff, I wanted to share the news that our friends at BN Bulls have new writers. And our site has some new bells and whistles. Catch up with the news and show our new friends some love . Also: Play nice. Writing about the Bulls is no easy task. Whatever anger and angst you want to put toward them, send it to the people who deserve it — you know, the folks running the team.
The 13th episode of The BN Bears Podcast is OUT. Patrick, Matt, and I...
When word broke that the Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox had met with Pete Alonso at the Winter Meetings before he signed with the Baltimore Orioles, I offered up my reaction here . The short version? No reason not to meet, it probably wasn’t serious, and it probably served everyone’s interests.
Other folks had a different reaction, and it’s one we’ve heard many times before when reporting indicates the Cubs were involved/interested/etc. with respect to a free agent they didn’t ultimately...
On Tuesday morning, Elliotte Friedman and Kyle Bukauskas dropped a new edition of their “32 Thoughts” podcast that is highlighted by an interview with Blackhawks forwards Connor Bedard and Frank Nazar after the Blackhawks arrived in Toronto on Monday. The conversation started around 10:15 into the episode.
Bedard traveled with the team for their three-game swing in Canada. The first question, obviously, went to Bedard about his injury.
“It’s a shoulder thing,” Bedard said to open the...
I will preface this discussion by saying the Blackhawks have zero point zero issue with the top of their depth chart in net. Spencer Knight is the present and future for the Chicago Blackhawks. Full stop. He’s the good.
Behind Knight on the depth chart? Blackhawks fans are talking…
For those wondering how long Laurent Brossoit would be in Rockford… that initial clock expired. He was recalled from Rockford and was on the ice with the Blackhawks in Chicago before they flew to Toronto. ...
Thanks to BCB reader JayWent, who suggested I write an article about Japanese third baseman Munetaka Murakami and the chances the Cubs might be interested in him. Murakami is listed at 6-2, 213, which makes him a pretty large man for a Japanese player. By comparison, Seiya Suzuki is 6-0 and 182. Murakami bats left-handed […]
1940 In a minor trade, the White Sox shipped Jack Knott to Philadelphia for third baseman Dario Lodigiani. Knott was approaching his later 30s but was coming off of two strong, two-plus WAR seasons, while Lodigiani, about a decade younger, was just getting his career started. No one ended up very pleased with how the […]
The Toronto Maple Leafs have been made -223 favorites over the Chicago Blackhawks (+183) playing on home ice on Tuesday at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto.
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Maple Leafs vs. Blackhawks Favorite, Moneyline, Total
Favorite: Maple Leafs (-223)
Underdog: Blackhawks (+183)
Total: 5.5
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Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2025
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Luke Weaver is the latest name floating around in the blogosphere. Michael King is said to have reduced his potential landing spots to three AL East cities. The sources are credible but nothing is definite yet. *means autoplay on, (directions to remove for Firefox and Chrome). {$} means paywall. {$} means limited views. Italics are often used on this page […]
THE DAILY SPONGIE SPECIAL BEARSSSSSS Bears in prime position for playoff berth, but it’s delicate heading into final 3 games – Chicago Sun-Times The Bears are 10-4 and close against the Packers (9-4-1), 49ers (10-4) and Lions (8-6). Ben Johnson: Bears have to protect Rome Odunze from himself in injury rehab – Chicago Sun-Times The […]
It’s the start of a new week here at BCB After Dark: the hippest spot for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in out of the cold. We’ve got a fire going in here. We can take your coat. We still have a few tables available. Bring your own […]
Myles Garrett is already an all-time NFL great. He is a master sack artist who has the distinction of being the player that Cleveland Browns fans can rally around on game day. Even when there isn’t much going right for the Browns, at least they’ve got Myles Garrett giving opposing quarterbacks fits.
And while Garrett inched closer to the all-time single-season sack record in Week 15, Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams wasn’t going to allow the Cleveland star to get it on him. This p...
Monday, Dec. 15, stands as the unofficial start of this year’s trade season, as it marks the first day most free agent contracts signed over the summer can be traded.
With the Chicago Bulls in the midst of a miserable stretch — they have lost eight of their last nine games, with six of those defeats arriving against teams with losing records — it’s clear that a change may be needed.
Given longtime Bulls team president Arturas Karnisovas and general manager Marc Eversley’s shared disi...
The Cleveland Browns made so many roster moves last week that it was hard to keep them all straight. With a number of injuries on top of the changes on the roster, the Chicago Bears made easy work of the Browns on Sunday. The list of moves last week was long: On Tuesday: On Wednesday: […]