Sounds like Anders Sorensen is winning over the Chicago Blackhawks locker room

Anders Sorensen has only been the Chicago Blackhawks interim head coach for two games, but it sounds like he has the buy-in from everyone on the roster.

The Athletic's Mark Lazerus has described how Sorensen has quickly gotten the young players and the veterans to accept his way of doing things.

In Lazerus' work, he does have the players acknowledging that they bear the blame for getting previous head coach Luke Richardson fired. However, the time had come for a new leadership voice.

That is what the Hawks are getting in Sorensen.

So far, we have seen the same old bad Chicago Blackhawks in a 4-2 defeat to the Winnipeg Jets in Sorensen's first game as interim head coach. Then, the team pulled a nice 2-1 victory at Madison Square Garden against the New York Rangers in Sorensen's second game in charge.

Instead of just constantly changing up the lines and hoping something works like Richardson did, Sorensen's updates seems to be involving the players.

Connor Bedard has been struggling to score goals this season. His regression is one of the unstated reasons the team fired Richardson. Sorensen reached out to Bedard to come up with ways to get the phenom back on track toward being one of the elite players in the NHL rather than just a regular player.

He has also changed how the defense works in the defensive zone. The switch-up did help the Hawks hold the Rangers to a single goal.

The change came with a focus on the players having more freedom to decide whether to come out from packing the front of the goal.

Sorensen is willing to allow teams to shoot the puck from far away. He wants to remove the ideal parts of the ice for the opponent's offense to score.

Seems like a good solution to solve some of the silly mistakes the team was making that led to Richardson's downfall.

At least Sorensen is not meeting the resistance Jeremy Colliton met when he took over for Joel Quenneville in the 2018-19 season. That was going to be tough for anyone to come in and replace a legend who had veteran players loyal to him. It also did not help that Colliton was very committed to his way of doing things.

It is one reason Derek King was a breath of fresh air when he took over for Colliton after he was fired. It sounds like Sorensen is getting the same embrace King got because he is willing to try things that involve players instead of just trying to throw stuff up against the wall like Richardson was starting to do during the waning days of his tenure.