Morning Bag Skate: Artemi Panarin scores first career NHL hat trick; Hawks visit White House

Rookie Artemi Panarin scored his first career NHL hat trick to carry the Chicago Blackhawks to a 5-3 win over Rangers on Wednesday at Madison Square Garden.

The Hawks will visit the White House with a ceremony beginning at 10 a.m., which can be seen live on CSN and CSNChicago.com.

HAWKS

**Panarin's hat trick leads Chicago past Rangers (SCH)

**Watch: Panarin records his first career NHL hat trick (SCH)

**Rob Scuderi clears waivers, assigned to AHL Rockford (SCH)

**Hawks impending White House visit fuels light-hearted jab at Ted Cruz (SCH)

**Week Ahead: Stadium Series against Minnesota (SCH)

CENTRAL DIVISION

**Recap: Iginla scores twice to lift Avs past Habs (MHH)

**Recap: Wild get second win since coaching change (HW)

**Blues assign Dmitrij Jaskin to AHL (STLGT)

NHL

**NHL upholds Flames' Dennis Wideman's 20-game suspension (M&G)

**Flames goaltender Karri Ramo out for season with torn ACL (M&G)

**Panthers, Brian Campbell to discuss contract extension (theScore)

HOCKEY WORLD

**OHL Flint fires same coaching staff for second time this season (CBS Sports)

**It sounds like the John Scott movie is going to happen (CBS Sports)

**Hockey East: Ranking the last six coaching changes (SBNCH)