Whew!
After dropping four games in a row, the Blackhawks played like Stanley Cup champions as they rolled over the Vancouver Canucks by a 5-2 margin on Wednesday night.
After giving up the first two goals of the game in the Pacific Northwest, the Blackhawks scored four goals in less than eight minutes in the second period to take charge of the game.
That's how head coach Joel Quenneville expects his team to play the rest of the way. While this team is obviously explosive with Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane, Marian Hossa and Patrick Sharp leading the way, there are several areas of concern.
Perhaps the biggest issue is whether Andrew Shaw can handle the responsibility of being the team's No. 2 center.
He lacks size at 5'10" and 180 pounds, and his skating is not elite, but he makes up for those shortcomings in other ways.
Who can forget his triple overtime goal in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final against the Boston Bruins last June? While Shaw is not known for scoring huge goals, he was not afraid to put himself in the line of fire during that critical game as Michal Rozsival's shot from the ...
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