Marian Hossa

It’s official. Marian Hossa will play tomorrow night in his debut for the Chicago Blackhawks in San Jose. At today’s practice Coach Quenneville played Patrick Kane as a left-winger on a line with Jonathan Toews and Marian Hossa on the right. Kane shoots left, so it shouldn’t be much of a problem moving him to the other side of Toews. The only adjective I can think of using to describe a line consisting of those three is glorious.

Chris Kuc noted that Hossa also practiced on the No. 1 power-play unit. The line combinations used in today’s practice were 1) Kane, Toews, Hossa 2) Byfuglien, Versteeg, Sharp 3) Ladd, Madden, Brouwer 4) Eager, Fraser, Kopecky. I would think that Quenneville would keep those combinations to start tomorrow night’s game against the Sharks.