Blackhawks' Jeff Blashill addresses Connor Bedard, Frank Nazar's play after loss to Kraken Monday

"I thought tonight it was too spread throughout the team. I just think we have better in us as a group as a whole. We didn't have enough guys who had their A-game.

[When] both teams are clogging that up, it makes it hard. Games are hard, man. It's not going to be a lot of free-flowing [hockey]. You've got to really earn your offense. Sometimes you need some ugly ones, and we just didn't get quite enough pucks through."

"There's a lot of burden on [Nazar's] shoulders for a guy that hasn't played a lot. For us to expect him to be on top of his game every single night is probably not realistic. It's the same with a lot of our guys - there's going to be ups and downs. We've just got to collectively make sure we have more ups than downs."

"The thing I'd say about Connor is his compete every single day is outstanding. I asked him at the beginning of the year, as one of the better players on the team, to be a great leader in terms of playing winning hockey, and he's done that consistently."