Chicago Blackhawks Season Preview: April

September 2nd, 2010 by Bryan Dietzler Leave a reply »
The final month of the NHL season comes in April and the Blackhawks won’t even play a full month's worth of games. Their final regular season game of the month comes on the 10th. Hopefully by then, they will be in a position to get into the playoffs and defend their Stanley Cup title.

The Blackhawks will kick off the month of April on April Fools' Day with a visit to the Columbus Blue Jackets. When these two teams met last season (five times) the Blackhawks gained a 3-2 advantage in those games and will need to play just as well or better in this game in order to win and keep pace for a playoff berth.

Following their away game in Columbus, the Blackhawks will return to the United Center to face the Tampa Bay Lightning. In action last season, these two team met one time and the Blackhawks won that lone game. Hopefully they can win this one as well.

Chicago will travel to Montreal after that to take on the Canadiens. The Canadiens and the Blackhawks played one game last season and the Blackhawks won that lone game.  This is the only game that these two teams will play this season.

Following their visit to Montreal, the Blackh ...

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