The Chicago Blackhawks are among the elite of the NHL. The regular season matters very little to them—the same can be said for the Los Angeles Kings—as they are built to win a championship and are the rare squad that possesses the ability to flip a switch for the second season.
Consider the final quarter of last season, when the Blackhawks finished 11-11-1 to relinquish the Central Division to the Colorado Avalanche. The Blackhawks lost the first two games of their first-round series to the Blues before winning six in a row and eight of 10 to reach the conference finals.
With a virtually identical team returning this season, the regular season is just as meaningless.
What We Learned in 2013-14
The Blackhawks are really good. They have a lot of good hockey players, a few great ones, who are good and great at playing hockey.
To sit here and explain that the Blackhawks are really good is akin to those anti-smoking ads where the lady talks through her neck or the guy pulls out his teeth. We all know the Blackhawks are really good. We all know smoking is bad.
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Article written by Dave Lozo
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