It’s no secret that the Blackhawks’ main weakness this season comes on their defense. Brent Seabrook is slowing down and Duncan Keith has had an unusual season. Connor Murphy is evidently still finding his own, and other than that, the defensive group is made up of mostly first or second-year players. If the Blackhawks want […]

With as much of a disappointment as this season has been, the outlook as far as forwards go is pretty positive. The established core of Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane and Brandon Saad will be surrounded by younger guys who are starting to establish themselves, as well as some guys looking towards a breakout season. On […]

The Blackhawks have 19 games left in their regular season, and it’s safe to say that they aren’t making the playoffs. With Blackhawks fans not having the privilege of playoff hockey for the first time in a long time, they need to make the most of the remainder of the regular season. Instead of checking […]

Every time the Blackhawks have a long break between games, they come out flat and lose badly in the next. Isn’t that the opposite of what you’d expect? If a team has more rest, they should be expected to play better, in theory. I decided to look into how rest effects player performance and consider […]

The mysterious injury of Chicago Blackhawks goaltender Corey Crawford has plagued his team for much of the season, and recently, fans were informed that this injury may extend far beyond this season. As many fans know, Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville is often cryptic in his dialogue with the media. What he says isn’t often what […]

Looking at the list of players selected in the 2008 draft, the amount of longtime NHLers is appalling. While the Blackhawks clearly did something right in the few years leading up to the 2010-2015 run, that run may have been extended had they made a few different draft selections in 2008, especially in the first […]

Throughout the past decade, the Chicago Blackhawks have mostly coasted through the second half of the season, when no game was a must-win even if the result affected playoff positioning. The majority of the team seemed to go through the motions of playing and eventually flipped a switch when the playoffs neared and games started […]

With the rebuild of the Chicago Blackhawks being fully upon us, now is the perfect time to check in on all of their prospects to see what the future may hold. If you missed my report on Blackhawks prospects in the NCAA, definitely check that out. But today, I want to look at the three […]