NHL Playoffs: What channel is Blues vs. Blackhawks Game 4 on?

Here is where you can watch the Game 4 of the NHL playoffs first round series between the St. Louis Blues and the Chicago Blackhawks.

After superfluous penalties resulted in their embarrassing home defeat, the Blackhawks will try to reclaim their home ice advantage tonight at 9:30 PM ET at the United Center. The hosts are currently down 2-1 in the best-of-seven series, but Chicago is quite familiar with this pattern having been in this scenario 10 times since 2008-09.

The Blackhawks have lacked production in their front lines throughout the series, and the team hopes that switching up their lineups tonight will help the players figure out how to score. Center Andrew Desjardins and RW Richard Panik are playing in tonight’s game, while LW Brandon Mashinter and RW Dale Weise are out. That still doesn’t change the deficiencies of Jonathan Toews, for example, but perhaps some fresh bodies and some new dynamics are what Chicago needs to reinvigorate its play. That, and their anger and frustration.

The league’s leading scorer Patrick Kane may have a reputation for bring the team back to life in the eleventh hour of competition, but such a feat may be more unrealistic this time around because of the Blues’s x-factor, goaltender Brian Elliott. Elliott made a stunning postseason career-high 44 saves in Game 3 and has stopped 105 of 109 shots in the series.

The Blues will attempt to get a 3-1 lead in the series the tonight at 9:30 p.m. EST. The game will be aired on NBC Sports Network.

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