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Jared McCann scored his 19th goal of the season early in the first period, Joey Daccord made 34 saves and the Seattle Kraken handed Chicago its 18th straight road loss with a 6-2 win over the Blackhawks on Wednesday night. Seattle snapped its four-game losing streak and added to Chicago’s misery away from home. The 18 straight road losses are tied for the fourth-longest single-season streak in NHL history, along with Pittsburgh (1982-83), Quebec (1989-90) and San Jose (1992-93).

Corey Perry contract and salary cap details, contract breakdowns, dead money, and news.

Blackhawks center Connor Bedard is expected to miss six to eight weeks after he had surgery to repair his fractured jaw. It means he will miss the Feb. 3 NHL All-Star Game in Toronto — dealing a blow to the league. Bedard got hurt when he was leveled by New Jersey defenseman Brendan Smith midway through the first period of Friday night’s 4-2 loss to the Devils.

There is a Connor Bedard update Wednesday. The Chicago Blackhawks NHL rookie will be out six to eight weeks with a broken jaw.

Good afternoon, Chicago. The first “significant” winter storm to affect the Chicago region is scheduled to start tonight, with meteorologists predicting 2 to 5 inches of snow accumulation and wind gusts up to 30 mph across portions of central and northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana. A winter weather advisory goes into effect at 8 p.m. until noon Tuesday in the Chicago metro area as well ...

Zach Sanford contract and salary cap details, contract breakdowns, dead money, and news.

Good morning, Chicago. Segregation. Redlining. Land sale contracts, where real estate speculators in the 1950s and ‘60s sold homes to Black families on rent-to-own contracts for double — or more — what the property was worth. Artist Tonika Lewis Johnson has been highlighting these decadeslong injustices against the Black community in projects such as “The Folded Map” and “Inequity for Sale.” ...

The two decades Marc-Andre Fleury has spent in the NHL have passed as quickly for him as the airborne pucks that speed toward him in the net each time he takes the ice. Now the fourth goalie in history to appear in 1,000 games, a mark he made with Minnesota in a 3-2 loss to Winnipeg on Sunday, Fleury is on the verge of another lofty milestone in his 20th season in the league. “I feel very fortunate that I was able to play hockey for so long and do something I love,” Fleury said.

Good afternoon, Chicago. Ready to sing “Auld Lang Syne” to your live Christmas tree? Last year, more than 20,000 trees were collected as part of Chicago’s holiday tree recycling program. Here’s how to recycle trees in Chicago or the suburbs. And here’s what else is happening today. And remember, for the latest breaking news in Chicago, visit chicagotribune.com/breaking and sign up to get our ...

Good afternoon, Chicago. Four years after Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a landmark consolidation of police and firefighter pensions with a promise of delivering property tax relief across Illinois, the measure’s effect on taxes remains murky while the constitutionality of the law itself is under challenge. The legal question is now before the Illinois Supreme Court, which is expected to rule ...