Forward Reese Johnson knows how to dish out a hit. And it took him only two preseason games under new Blackhawks coach Luke Richardson to make that abundantly clear.
“He went right after [Mo] Seider, their best defenseman, physically,” Richardson recalled of the Hawks-Red Wings game last weekend. “Not trying to hurt him — just kind of [ticking] him off. He was in his face and ran him a few times, and it gets everyone else all grumpy. [Dylan] Larkin went after him once because of it.
