It is official, with Detroit’s gutsy Game 7 performance it sets up a Blackhawks vs. Red Wings second round matchup. This is the final season that these two storied franchises will be in the same conference once realignment is made official next season. To meet in the playoffs seems like the perfect way to end ...
Corey Crawford Answers The Bell The Chicago Blackhawks became the second Western Conference team to advance to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs by defeating the Minnesota Wild in five games. Despite Minnesota’s starter Niklas Backstrom going down with injury in the Game 1 warm-ups, Josh Harding filled in valiantly forcing overtime in ...
The Chicago Blackhawks are prepping for Game 4 Wednesday and they know they are facing a fired up Minnesota team. After Chicago had taken the first two games of the series at home they headed to Minnesota in the enviable position of being up 2-0 in the series. Sunday afternoon we were introduced to a ...
The 2013 NHL playoffs are set to kick off on Tuesday night with the President’s Trophy winning, and top seed in the Western conference, Chicago Blackhawks taking on the eighth seeded Minnesota Wild. The Wild only secured their postseason place thanks a 3-1 road victory over the Colorado Avalanche on the final day of the ...
The Chicago Blackhawks wrapped up their regular season April 27 against the St. Louis Blues, with first place locked up the Hawks rested many of their regulars. It is now official that Chicago will play the 8th seeded Minnesota Wild in the first round of the 2013 playoffs. With big name stars on both rosters this should lead to a series that promises end to end excitement.
The Chicago Blackhawks have found the road to the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs a little more rocky over the past month. Since beginning the season with a record 24 game unbeaten streak in regulation time and 30 games over two seasons, Chicago is 6-6 in their subsequent 12 games since the streak came to a crashing halt on March 8 in Colorado.
Its more than fair to say the Chicago Blackhawks have cruised through most of this NHL season, when the most stressful thing about your team is 4 regulation losses after 31 games life is pretty good. This coming off season is an interesting one for Chicago, especially at the goaltending position. I fully expect Crawford ...
Five Reasons the Blackhawks WILL NOT Win the Stanley Cup Earlier this week, Andy Graziano of The Hockey Writers and I discussed debating the Blackhawks chances of bringing the Stanley Cup back to the Windy City this season. Despite the fact that Andy has made some incredibly valid points and it’s difficult to argue with ...
The Chicago Blackhawks have had an amazing cast of players in their lineup ever since 2008, even after winning the cup and having the team dismantled due to cap restrictions they still had one of the better groups of forwards led by flashy winger Patrick Kane and Captain Serious Jonathan Toews. Their defence core was ...
When you look around at the financial landscape of professional sports, you see a frightening example of why it is so difficult to create and keep together a team that can win multiple championships. The Montreal Canadiens of the late 1960s extending into the mid-1970s were one of the greatest legendary dynasties in professional sports ...
