If someone printed out the Blackhawks’ list of unavailable players right now, they might need two sheets of paper.

Forward Joey Anderson became the latest to join the injured crew when an upper-body injury prevented him from returning for the third period of the Hawks’ 4-3 loss to the Canucks on Sunday. Coach Luke Richardson said they’ll know more about its severity by Monday, once it settles down.

Alex Vlasic also missed Sunday’s game due to the upper-body injury he suffered Thursday. Richardson did suggest Vlasic’s issue is minor, joking that “if it was the playoffs, maybe we would force him to play.”

Anderson, Vlasic, Seth Jones (upper body), Kevin Korchinski (bereavement), Jarred Tinordi (concussion), MacKenzie Entwistle (illness), Andreas Athanasiou (out since Nov. 9), Colin Blackwell (out since February), Taylor Hall (out for season) and Corey Perry (terminated) compose the full list of unavailable Hawks players.

“I don’t even know if I want to practice anymore because guys are going down,” Richardson said tongue-in-cheek, although the Hawks indeed aren’t going to practice Monday before hosting the Avalanche on Tuesday.

Connor Murphy nearly joined the list Sunday, too, but he was fortunately able to return after blocking a J.T. Miller shot with his knee in the first period.

The already decimated defense would’ve been in unbelievably thin shape without Murphy. It has become clear this year’s Hawks roster might be even worse than last year’s roster, but the amount of talent and experience currently missing from it makes the team’s uphill battle to contend every night even steeper.

With Wyatt Kaiser now back in the NHL lineup, rookies Nolan Allan and Ethan Del Mastro are the only remaining defensemen on NHL contracts who could be called up from Rockford if necessary.

Leaning on Bedard

Connor Bedard received a season-high 23:16 of ice time Sunday as Richardson leaned heavily upon his star rookie to spearhead the Hawks’ third-period rally, which fell just short.

Bedard was double-shifting most of the period, maintaining his spot as the first-line center (between Lukas Reichel and Philipp Kurashev at the moment) while also doing most of the filling-in for Anderson. He played 9:55 in the third period — nearly half of it.

“He was doing some great things in the third period, so it was easy to do,” Richardson said. “We’ve had that conversation before where [we’ve told him], ‘Take short shifts. Do the right things. You can’t do it all by yourself — not yet anyway.’ I think he bought into that tonight. He got to the bench and he was ready to go back out there, and he’s fresh. It’s a good sign.”

It was Bedard’s first game against the Canucks, his hometown team while growing up in Vancouver. He said he talked to his parents on the phone Sunday morning and reminisced about how, “not too long ago, I was just cheering for them pretty hard.”

Power-play conversions

Bedard tallied two points in his 23 minutes, both of which were primary assists on power-play goals by Nick Foligno and Cole Guttman.

It actually marked the first time this season the Hawks have scored multiple power-play goals in one game. Their 2-for-4 afternoon improved their season conversion rate to 11.6%, which is still quite poor.

Because Jones, Korchinski and Vlasic were all out, the Hawks decided to deploy five forwards as their No. 1 power-play unit, with Kurashev manning the point instead of a defenseman. The results were good enough to justify exploring that concept further.