Luke Richardson teaching Blackhawks new systems in straightforward way: ‘It helps everybody’

Luke Richardson’s lessons in Blackhawks training camp have been straightforward and easy to understand. (Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

The Blackhawks will make plenty of mistakes this season. Players will be in the wrong place, cover the wrong man, choose the wrong option with the puck or even mess up while trying to do the right thing. That’s inevitable.

But new coach Luke Richardson has focused in training camp on teaching his systems — and breaking down the individual assignments in his systems — in such a way that at least every Hawks player knows, in theory, what he should do in any given situation.