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Ask Anna: What to do when your partner feels insecure about your past
Dear Anna,
I’ve been dating my girlfriend for a little over a year, and for the most part things are great. We’re both pretty sentimental people, but in different ways. I save things — not in a hoarder way, but I’ve kept shoeboxes of old letters, birthday cards and printed photos from past relationships going back to college. I don’t look at them often; maybe once or twice a year I’ll flip through them out of nostalgia, the same way someone might reread an old journal or yearbook. It doesn’t make me miss the people or want anything back. If anything, it reminds me how much I’ve grown and how different my life is now.
My girlfriend recently found one of the boxes while we were reorganizing the closet, and she did not take it well. She asked why I “need” to keep any of this, especially since some of it includes love letters and romantic photos. I told her the truth — that I’m not pining, I’m not comparing, I’m not holding a torch for anyone. It just feels wrong to throw away pieces of my own life. These relationships shaped me, even when they ended badly.
But she insists that keeping this stuff — and especially looking at it — is disrespectful to her. She said it makes her feel like she’s competing with ghosts. I don’t want her to feel insecure, and I’m not trying to hide anything. But I also don’t want to erase my own history to soothe a fear I’m not sure I fully understand. Is it wrong to hold on to memories of past relationships when you’re committed to someone new? Should I get rid of the boxes to make her feel more secure, or should she work through the discomfort on her end? I want to be considerate, but I also don’t want to pretend the life I lived before her never happened. Am I being insensitive, or is she being unfair? — Not Trying to Date My Past
Dear NTDMP,
Let’s start with this: You’re not doing anything strange. Almost everyone keeps artifacts from the life they lived before their current partner — a letter, a playlist, a rock, a yearbook scribble, a photo tucked into a forgotten folder on a hard drive in the garage. Sometimes we don’t even realize we still have these things. When my father died and I was cleaning out his home, I found a birthday card from my orthodontist that I had kept for some reason since I was 12. Why?
Our histories accumulate in drawers and boxes and iClouds the same way our memories accumulate in our bodies. It’s normal to want a record of who you were. It’s normal to revisit it. That doesn’t automatically mean you’re longing for anything (or anyone) you left behind.
But! It’s also normal for your girlfriend to feel a pang when she sees tangible evidence of your old loves. These items aren’t just paper and ink and pixels to her — they’re symbols. Proof that you once felt deeply for other people. Proof that she wasn’t the first, and possibly not the most intense. Many people are fine with their partner’s past in the abstract, but the physical artifacts can feel like emotional clutter encroaching on the present.
So you’re both being human. No villains here.
The real issue is symbolic meaning. For you, these boxes are a museum exhibit. For her, they’re an altar.
That’s why your instinct isn’t to hide them or toss them; you already know they’re inert. But for her, the existence of these objects — and especially the fact that you look at them, regardless of how infrequently — feels alive. Like an open portal to something she can’t see into.
The goal, then, is not to decide whose feelings are “correct,” but whose interpretation needs updating.
Start by explaining in a calm moment (not while either of you is staring at the box): “These things don’t represent desire. They represent memory. They help me remember who I was — not who I want to be with.” You don’t have to use flowery language; just anchor it in emotional reality.
Then ask her two important questions:
“What part of this feels threatening to you?”
Because there are layers here, and she may not even know which one is snagging her heart. It might be comparison — the worry that those letters capture a version of you who felt a kind of intensity she fears she can’t match. It might be disposability — the fear that she could become just another box in your closet someday. Or it might be imagination, the worst culprit of all: When she sees old love notes, she’s not thinking about dusty pages; she’s picturing living, breathing exes with history and inside jokes and moments she was never part of.
Even if you know those relationships are fully dormant, the artifacts are proof they once mattered — and she may not yet know how to hold that truth without shrinking from it.
This is why your tone matters more than your logic.
You’re not trying to win an argument; you’re trying to make room for her feelings without letting them run your life. So when you ask the question, do it gently. Let her talk without immediately reassuring her out of her discomfort. Sometimes people soften the moment they feel allowed to speak the scary thing out loud.
And the second question: “What would help you feel secure, without requiring me to erase my past?” This invites collaboration instead of defensiveness.
You can also offer a boundary that doesn’t require tossing your mementos: “If looking at the boxes bothers you, I’m happy to store them somewhere out of sight. I’m not attached to having them accessible — just to not pretending those years never existed.”
She may surprise you by softening once she feels understood, not overridden.
But here’s the crucial thing: Memory isn’t the enemy of commitment. In fact, people who can reflect on their past tend to be better at choosing present partners with intention. You didn’t hide the box. You didn’t lie about it. You didn’t turn nostalgia into a secret ritual. Those are the behaviors that signal danger — and you’re doing none of them.
If your girlfriend ultimately needs you to destroy these artifacts to feel loved, that’s not about the photos. That’s about a deeper fear that no amount of shredding will fix.
Your past is a map, not a rival. Stay compassionate, stay honest and stay rooted in the present you’re actually building with her.
©2025 Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
Putin In Military Fatigues Announces Another Key Ukrainian City Captured
Putin In Military Fatigues Announces Another Key Ukrainian City Captured
Kupiansk, an important rail junction in the northeastern Kharkiv region, has been taken by Russia’s military on Thursday, in another example of Moscow forces steadily, even if slowly, gobbling up territory along the front lines.
President Putin was all business, showing up in military fatigues as commander-in-chief for a televised briefing from the defense ministry. Without doubt these optics were crafted to signal strength to the West, at a moment the Trump White House is floating a new 28-point peace plan.
Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov informed Putin, “Units of the Battlegroup West have liberated the city of Kupyansk and continue to destroy Ukrainian formations encircled on the left bank of the Oskol River.”
In follow-up the president asked for clarification: “So, that’s it? Did they finish everything?” – and the Battlegroup West commander replied in the affirmative.
As of several weeks ago, Ukraine rejected reports that the city was surrounded, calling it a fabrication. But today’s declaration of victory over the city shows that the case was otherwise.
The same goes for the even more important city of Pokrovsk – as Ukraine has either downplayed or rejected Russia’s claims to have encircled it. But here’s what Reuters is reporting Thursday:
Russia’s defense ministry released video on Thursday showing its soldiers moving freely through the southern part of the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, patrolling deserted streets lined with charred apartment blocks.
Russia has been threatening Pokrovsk for more than a year, using a pincer movement to attempt to encircle it and threaten supply lines. Russian maps now show the city under Russian control and Ukrainian troops encircled in neighboring Myrnohrad.
President Putin wants to drive home that his forces continue to be in the driver’s seat and have overwhelming, steady momentum on the ground.
Moscow also finally seems to be making headway with the Trump administration, as it puts forward the new 28-point peace plan which features territorial concessions (for the first time).
Russian forces walking around Pokrovsk.
Note the heavy fog still present as well as very little auditable fighting in the city. pic.twitter.com/n8sIe3nZRu
— ayden (@squatsons) November 20, 2025
Purported location of the video released by the Russian Ministry of Defense:
The US side appears to be bringing pressure to bear on Zelensky, toward ending the war based on serious compromise:
The White House says Army Secretary Dan Driscoll felt optimistic following a meeting with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, who is now planning to speak with President Trump about the 28-point peace plan reportedly hashed out mostly with Russia in recent weeks.
“Sec. Driscoll did meet with President Zelensky today,” Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, told reporters on Thursday.
“We spoke with him. He was very optimistic following that meeting. And so again, we are having good conversations with both sides with respect to ending the war.”
But it remains that Zelensky has throughout the war consistently rejected any proposal which features territorial concessions. He is supported especially be Ukrainian hardliners, both in the military and in parliament.
Minerals deal 2.0?
LATEST: Ukraine is coming under intense pressure to accept a sweeping peace plan drawn up by the Trump administration with Moscow’s input to end Russia’s war in the country, according to Ukrainian officials.
The officials said the Trump administration told Zelenskyy and other…
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) November 20, 2025
Zelensky will likely be encouraged by hawkish European allies to resist any significant concessions which benefit Moscow. But the situation for Kiev is likely desperate on the battlefield, and few options remain.
Tyler Durden
Fri, 11/21/2025 – 02:45
Sismo de magnitud 5,5 remece centro de Bangladés deja al menos 6 muertos
Associated Press
DACA, Bangladesh (AP) — Un terremoto de magnitud 5,5 sacudió el centro de Bangladesh el viernes y se cobró la vida de al menos seis personas, además de dejar decenas de heridos, según las autoridades. En la capital, Daca, los edificios se remecieron durante el temblor, lo que llevó a los residentes, presas del pánico, a salir a las calles.
El temblor se registró a las 10:38 de la mañana y tuvo su epicentro en la zona de Ghorashal, en el distrito de Narsingdi, a unos 25 kilómetros (16 millas) de Daca. El Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS, por sus siglas en inglés) indicó que se localizó a una profundidad de 10 kms (6 millas).
La televisora DBC, con sede en Daca, reportó que al menos seis personas murieron en la capital: tres por el derrumbe del techo de un edificio y una pared, y tres peatones cuando les cayeron encima las barandillas de un edificio.
Según el USGS, el norte y el sureste de Bangladesh tiene más actividad sísmica debido a las interacciones entre las placas de India y Eurasia, mientras que la región central es menos activa.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
Explosión de caldera en fábrica de pegamento en este de Pakistán mata a 15 trabajadores
Associated Press
LAHORE, Pakistán (AP) — Al menos 15 trabajadores murieron y otros siete resultaron heridos el viernes por la explosión de una caldera en una fábrica de pegamento en el este de Pakistán. La policía reportó la detención del gerente de la planta y dijo que buscaba al propietario, que huyó poco después del incidente.
La causa de la explosión en la planta industrial en Faisalabad, una ciudad de la provincia de Punjab, no se conocía por el momento.
La deflagración causó daños graves en el edificio de la fábrica y en viviendas cercanas, provocó un incendio en el recinto y causó pánico en la zona, explicó el funcionario local Raja Jahangir.
Las autoridades abrieron una investigación sobre el accidente, dijo el agente de la policía local Mohammad Aslam.
La ministra principal de Punjab, Maryam Nawaz Sharif, expresó sus condolencias y ordenó a las autoridades que garanticen la mejor atención médica posible a los heridos.
Los deficientes medidas de seguridad son una causa frecuente de accidentes industriales e incendios en fábricas en Pakistán. En 2024, una docena de trabajadores resultaron heridos por la explosión de una caldera en una fábrica textil en Faisalabad. La semana pasada, una explosión en una pirotecnia en la ciudad portuaria de Karachi mató a cuatro personas.
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EEUU planea cambiar requisitos para beneficios fiscales, lo que afectará a migrantes contribuyentes
Por FATIMA HUSSEIN y GISELA SALOMON
WASHINGTON (AP) — El Departamento del Tesoro de Estados Unidos dijo el jueves que planea reclasificar ciertos créditos fiscales reembolsables como “prestaciones públicas federales”, lo que impedirá que algunos contribuyentes inmigrantes los reciban, incluso si presentan y pagan impuestos y, de otro modo, cumplirían los requisitos.
Los expertos fiscales señalan que quienes fueron llevados a Estados Unidos de forma ilegal por sus padres cuando eran menores —conocidos como beneficiarios de DACA, o Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia— y los migrantes con estatus de protección temporal son los más susceptibles de verse afectados por la propuesta. La situación de los trabajadores extranjeros y los titulares de visas de estudiante, así como de algunas familias cuyos hijos tienen la nacionalidad estadounidense, dependería de la redacción de la norma, afirman.
El anuncio del Departamento del Tesoro fue el último indicio de cómo la administración del presidente Donald Trump ha adoptado un enfoque “integral de gobierno” en lo relativo a la aplicación de la ley migratoria y busca en todos los departamentos federales, no solo en Seguridad Nacional, formas de ayudar a cumplir la agenda migratoria del mandatario.
El Tesoro indicó en su anuncio que planea elaborar nuevas normas que afecten las partes reembolsadas de ciertos créditos fiscales sobre la renta de las personas físicas, incluidos beneficios relacionados con el trabajo, los hijos o el ahorro.
La nueva normativa redefiniría los créditos fiscales como “prestaciones públicas federales” en el contexto de la Ley de Reconciliación de la Responsabilidad Personal y la Oportunidad de Trabajo de 1996. Como resultado, muchos migrantes con permiso de trabajo en el país ya no podrán acogerse a esos beneficios.
Según el Instituto de Tributación y Política Económica, los migrantes que no cuentan con la documentación reglamentaria y pagan impuestos no suelen poder optar a los mismos beneficios fiscales que los ciudadanos estadounidenses, a pesar de que este grupo aportó casi 100.000 millones de dólares en impuestos federales, estatales y locales en 2022.
Por ejemplo, las personas en situación irregular no tienen derecho a las prestaciones de jubilación del Seguro Social o al seguro de salud de Medicare, a pesar de que contribuyen con miles de millones de dólares a los impuestos federales sobre los salarios que financian esos beneficios.
Los críticos señalaron que el cambio es una forma de atacar a los migrantes dentro de las políticas de Trump.
“Es una idea terrible e injusta negar beneficios fiscales a personas que han pagado impuestos y son elegibles para ellos debido a su estatus migratorio”, dijo Daniel Costa, director de Investigación de Leyes y Políticas de Inmigración en el Instituto de Política Económica.
“La aplicación (de la medida) requerirá determinar quién tiene estatus y quién no, lo cual es otra forma en que el gobierno de Trump ampliará su red de deportaciones”, agregó.
Se espera que la regulación definitiva se aplique a partir del año fiscal 2026. El secretario del Tesoro, Scott Bessent, afirmó en un comunicado que “estamos haciendo cumplir la ley y evitando que los extranjeros en situación irregular reclamen beneficios fiscales destinados a ciudadanos estadounidenses”. El Tesoro pidió al Departamento de Justicia una reinterpretación de la normativa para elaborar la nueva ley, indicó la agencia.
Carl Davis, director de investigación del Instituto de Tributación y Política Económica, apuntó que dado que quienes no cuentan con un permiso de trabajo ya no califican para estos beneficios, “las personas que realmente se verán afectadas son aquellas que realmente están tratando de hacer lo correcto, las personas autorizadas a trabajar y que pagan sus impuestos”.
Según Davis, la Casa Blanca estaría tratando de dificultar la vida de los migrantes que cumplen con sus obligaciones fiscales.
Brandon DeBot, director de política del Centro de Derecho Tributario de NYU, explicó en un comunicado que la reinterpretación de la ley por parte del Tesoro para elaborar una nueva normativa para los créditos fiscales “anula disposiciones muy claras del código tributario”.
«Denegar los créditos fiscales a las familias migrantes requiere que el Congreso actúe de forma explícita», afirmó DeBot.
Davis dijo que probablemente la normativa no tendría un respaldo mayoritario en el Congreso, lo que habría podido llevar al gobierno a actuar unilateralmente en el tema.
“En general, la población estadounidense simpatiza con los dreamers y los beneficiarios de DACA. Atacarlos de esta forma indirecta no es un cambio de política que hubiera tenido apoyo mayoritario en el Congreso”, afirmó.
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Salomon informó desde Miami.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
Explosión en fábrica de pegamento en el este de Pakistán deja al menos 15 muertos, según la policía
LAHORE, Pakistán (AP) — Explosión en fábrica de pegamento en el este de Pakistán deja al menos 15 muertos, según la policía.
Japan Might Challenge China Sooner Than Expected
Japan Might Challenge China Sooner Than Expected
Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack,
It was recently assessed that “Japan Will Play A Much Greater Role In Advancing The American Agenda In Asia”, which its new ultra-nationalist Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has wasted no time in doing.
Her first move in this direction was telling parliament that “If there are battleships and the use of force (by China against Taiwan), no matter how you think about it, it could constitute a survival-threatening situation.”
That lingo refers to a legal term for activating the use of Japan’s “Self-Defense Forces” (SDF).
Although she didn’t elaborate, her controversial logic is presumably that China’s post-war control over Taiwan’s semiconductor industry (provided that it survives the conflict) could lead to it coercing Japan into unilateral strategic concessions, the possibility of which fuels fears of Chinese hegemony over Asia. Takaichi then evaded answering whether her government will abide by Japan’s three non-nuclear principles of no possession of nuclear weapons, no production thereof, and no hosting of others’.
The US’ nuclear submarine deal with South Korea, which was assessed here as making it an informal member of AUKUS, was followed by reports that Japan might clinch its own with the US. In that event, the maritime SDF would pose an even more formidable threat to the People’s Liberation Army-Navy than it already does, which the analysis hyperlinked to at the beginning of this one assessed to already pose a challenge to Russia per the opinion of Putin’s senior aide and leading naval specialist Nikolai Patrushev.
Recalling Japan’s close defense ties with the Philippines, both of which are the US’ mutual defense allies and between whom lies Taiwan, it’s clear that Japan is being empowered by the US to re-establish part of its lost regional sphere of influence in order to contain China on the Asian front of the New Cold War. This parallels the US’ empowerment of Poland for containing Russia on the European front of the New Cold War through the partial re-establishment its own lost regional sphere of influence.
The larger trend is that the US is inciting security dilemmas along the periphery of what can now be described as the Sino-Russo Entente, correspondingly through its mutual defense allies in Japan and Poland who are in turn part of Asia’s NATO-like AUKUS+ and NATO, for dividing-and-ruling Eurasia. Interestingly, just like Japan is now flirting with nuclear weapons, so too did Poland recently reaffirm that it wants to host French nukes and one day even develop its own. The US is expected to back these plans.
Trump 2.0 is therefore fine-tuning the Biden Administration’s “dual containment” of the Sino-Russo Entente, as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov described the US-led West’s policy as being, to which end it’s focusing more on “Leading From Behind” in order to optimize “burden-sharing”.
The emerging result is a “return to history” in the sense of former regional leaders restoring their lost spheres of influence with US support and all that entails for worsening tensions with the Sino-Russo Entente.
China will never forget the Japanese genocide of its people during World War II while Russia commemorates the expulsion of the Poles from Moscow in 1612 every year on National Unity Day. Neither of these historical traumas are repeatable nowadays due to their nuclear deterrents, but the revival of their historical rivals certainly unsettles them, though it also unites their people in the face of these US-backed threats as the New Cold War continues to intensify with no end in sight.
Tyler Durden
Fri, 11/21/2025 – 02:00
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/japan-might-challenge-china-sooner-expected
Arnold, técnico de Irak, siente la pasión del país y busca superar el repechaje al Mundial
Por GRAHAM DUNBAR
ZÚRICH (AP) — Irak está a un partido de distancia del Mundial de 2026 y su entrenador veterano siente un poco de presión y un gran logro por delante.
Para los aficionados iraquíes, una espera de 40 años a través de la problemática historia moderna de su nación para regresar al Mundial puede terminar en un 21ro y último encuentro dentro de una épica eliminatoria Sería la mayor cantidad de encuentros que cualquier selección tendría que disputar para clasificarse a la Copa del Mundo en Estados Unidos, Canadá y México.
Irak solo tiene que ganar un partido de eliminación directa en marzo, contra Bolivia o Surinam, que se enfrentarán días antes, también en México —en las ciudades de Monterrey o Guadalajara.
“Si alguna vez un país ha estado desesperado por clasificar, es ésta”, consideró el entrenador de Irak, Graham Arnold, quien habló con The Associated Press en Zúrich el jueves, después de que la FIFA realizó el sorteo de los emparejamientos del repechaje.
“Nunca he visto algo como lo de la otra noche”, comentó, en referencia al partido en que Irak convirtió un penalti a los 17 minutos del descuento para eliminar a los Emiratos Árabes Unidos en un repechaje asiático.
Había 62.000 personas en el graderío para atestiguar la victoria iraquí por 2-1 en el encuentro y por 3-2 en el global. El encuentro se realizó en Basora, una ciudad más conocida por el conflicto militar y la agitación desde que Irak jugó por última vez en el Mundial en 1986.
Un video que circuló en línea mostró a Arnold detrás del banquillo del equipo negándose a mirar mientras Amir Al-Ammari se preparaba para marcar el penalti decisivo.
El prestigio de Arnold en repechajes
Aun así, Arnold lo ha visto y lo ha hecho antes en la eliminatoria para el Mundial.
Guió a su natal Australia en un partido de ganar o morir contra Perú en Doha para llegar al Mundial 2022 en Catar. Su audaz dirección ayudó a Australia a ganar la tanda de penaltis al enviar al portero suplente Andrew Redmayne, quien hizo la atajada decisiva.
“Lo curioso es que no sentí tanta presión”, expresó Arnold sobre dirigir a Australia en esa repesca, en comparación con la tensión “que sentí la otra noche”.
“Australia es mi país, y amo mucho a Australia, pero ahora me han dado una tarea que puede cambiar un país para siempre”, manifestó. “Y realmente estoy disfrutando la tarea”.
La pasión por el fútbol en Irak
Arnold fue nombrado apenas en mayo, en plena eliminatoria que comenzó en noviembre de 2023, para un trabajo en una nación donde el fútbol es el deporte principal.
“La gente es hermosa y son muy apasionados por cualquier cosa que hagan”, describió Arnold, quien se refirió a los aficionados como “sensacionales”.
“Todo el asunto de Irak es una percepción errónea. ¿Sabes?, tuvieron que pasar por una guerra, todavía se están recuperando de esa guerra”.
Bagdad fue sometida a bombardeos de “conmoción y pavor” por parte del ejército de Estados Unidos en 2003 para comenzar el derrocamiento del régimen de Saddam Hussein. Durante gran parte de las últimas dos décadas, la FIFA consideró que Irak no era lo suficientemente seguro para albergar partidos en competiciones internacionales como las eliminatorias del Mundial.
“Las carreteras están ocupadas, todo está ocupado. Pero he estado allí cinco meses y medio de seis, y lo encuentro normal”, dijo Arnold, quien añadió que no le molesta el calor ni las tormentas de arena.
Prohibición de redes sociales
Algunos integrantes del equipo de Arnold juegan para clubes en Europa, incluido Al-Ammari en Polonia, el exprospecto del Manchester United Zidane Iqbal en Holanda y Merchas Doski, nacido en Alemania, en la República Checa. La mayoría está aún en Irak.
“Han soportado mucha presión y hay muchas expectativas”, reconoció el estratega sobre los desafíos mentales. “Les he prohibido el uso de redes sociales en los últimos dos campamentos, desde el día que llegaron, hasta el día que nos fuimos. Y no hemos perdido un partido”.
Queda un cotejo más en México, el único país donde Irak jugó en un Mundial. En 1986, la selección iraquí perdió tres partidos ajustados, incluyendo uno contra el equipo anfitrión.
Irak quiere regresar.
“Hay 45 millones que viven en Irak y probablemente hay otros diez millones que viven en otro lugar, debido a la guerra”, dijo Arnold. “Así que hay mucha emoción alrededor de esto”.
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Fotogalería de Miss Universo desde Tailandia
Por SAKCHAI LALIT
NONTHABURI, Tailandia (AP) — Los momentos destacados de la 74a edición de Miss Universo celebrada en Nonthaburi, Tailandia.
La mexicana Fátima Bosch fue coronada Miss Universo. Por su parte, Miss Tailandia, Praveenar Singh, fue elegida primera finalista, y Miss Venezuela, Stephany Adriana Abasali Nasser, segunda finalista. Miss Filipinas Ahtisa Manalo y Miss Costa de Marfil Olivia Yacé completaron el grupo de las primeras cinco finalistas.
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/21/fotogalera-de-miss-universo-desde-tailandia/
Connor Bedard’s late penalty — after a no-call on a breakaway — leads to a crushing Chicago Blackhawks loss
The Chicago Blackhawks were playing their best hockey of the season Thursday night against the Seattle Kraken.
Then the script flipped.
Tyler Bertuzzi and Teuvo Teräväinen scored during a stellar second period that showed what the Hawks can be. The third period showcased what they shouldn’t be.
The Kraken stormed back with three goals in the third, with Jaden Schwartz scoring the tiebreaker on a power play with 2:18 left to hand the Hawks a crushing 3-2 defeat at the United Center.
After goals from Tye Kartye and Shane Wright erased the Hawks’ 2-0 lead, Connor Bedard had a breakaway with a prime chance to put the hosts back in front late in the third. But Kraken defenseman Ryan Lindgren used his stick to prevent the center from getting a shot off.
The forward, irate, skated to the referee to argue the no-call, pleading for a hooking or slashing penalty on Lindgren. And he appeared to have a case.
Instead, Bedard was called for an unsportsmanlike-conduct penalty with 4:32 remaining. On the ensuing power play, Schwartz collected a pass in the blue paint from defenseman Brandon Montour and scored the game-winner with 2:18 left.
“I haven’t watched it or anything, but I thought so,” Bedard said. “But who knows?”
Added Blashill: “It’s a penalty, (but) we have to control what we can control. When you don’t have position on a guy, you put your stick in there and you hit his glove, which he did. He got the stick after but the first contact was on his glove. It’s a penalty.”
The Hawks fell to 10-6-4 and saw their six-game point streak come to an end.
Photos: Seattle Kraken 3, Chicago Blackhawks 2 at the United Center
“I’ve got to control my emotions in a better way,” Bedard said. “I put our team in a vulnerable spot there, so just got to be better. Everyone is going to get frustrated, but (it’s) knowing (the right) time and place. It’s something that ultimately lost us the game, so (I) can’t do that.”
Boos rained down from Hawks fans after the penalty on Bedard.
“You can’t take a penalty there, he knows that, he’s already said that, so I get that and we’ll handle that internally,” Blashill said. “That’s a big call at that moment (and) it better have been really personal (to call that).”
After outshooting the Kraken 14-6 in the second period, the Hawks were outshot 12-3 in the third and didn’t see an attempt hit goaltender Joey Daccord until 14 minutes had passed.
Blackhawks left wing Andre Burakovsky (28) loses his helmet as he falls to the ice after taking a big hit from Kraken defenseman Ryan Lindgren (55) in the first period Nov. 20, 2025, at the United Center. Burakovsky left the game and didn’t return. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune)
Lindgren was the villain of the night. The defenseman delivered a hard hit to the head of André Burakovsky late in the first period that knocked the Hawks forward’s helmet off and sent him straight to the locker room.
Burakovsky, who has seven goals and eight assists this season, missed the rest of the game. He also was ruled out for Friday’s road game against the Buffalo Sabres.
A fairly clean first period turned physical after Lindgren’s hit. The Hawks weren’t happy with how they played, but they made sure to stick up for their teammate.
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“Our guys were mad, they thought it was a bad hit,” Blashill said. “I thought our guys reacted the right way.”
Added Bedard: “It’s back-to-back games (that) guys (are) going right to the head and nothing happens. I think that sucks. He’s a great player and it’s (expletive).”
Bertuzzi’s goal on a 3-on-1 breakaway just 43 seconds into the second period broke a scoreless tie. It was his 10th of the season and the 15th time the Hawks scored first, which leads the NHL. Bertuzzi then set up Teräväinen’s goal at 10:07 with the potential assist of the season, but the Hawks collapsed in the third.
With a game Friday in Buffalo, N.Y., they need to put the frustrating loss behind them quickly.
“It’s a big one tomorrow (since) we let that one slip away,” Bedard said. “With how tight everything is, that’s one we can’t really lose.
“We have to go in there tomorrow and give a good effort.”
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