Every year, the NHL awards its most valuable player as deemed by the media with the Hart Trophy. The Hart is quite arguable most the prestigious individual award that a player can attain, and so far it is none other than Erik Karlsson who deserves to be the favorite to lay claim to it in […]

The Tampa Bay Lightning in their current form are not what they were last season. However, that does not mean that what turned out to be their fatal flaw from last season’s Stanley Cup final against the Chicago Blackhawks is still a problem currently. That’s actually very far from reality. A lot was made last […]

After a rocky start to the season in October, the Tampa Bay Lightning hoped to bounce back with a strong second month of the campaign that would ideally vault them right back into a playoff position. Unfortunately, things didn’t go quite as planned. The Lightning finished November with a solid 6-5-1 mark, but that isn’t […]

We’re a little more than a month away from puck drop on the NHL’s 2015-2016 regular season. That means that over the course of the next few weeks, informal skates will be taking place, training camps will open, and pre-season games will begin to be played. All of those things are a welcomed change of […]

It’s now a day before September, and one of the Chicago Blackhawks’ key components of their roster still is without a contract heading into the 2015-2016 NHL season. Marcus Kruger, 25, has been a crucial cog in Chicago’s two most recent Stanley Cup championships serving as the fourth line pivot. Kruger’s role has been to […]

We’ve now come to the end of my series in which I’ve assembled the best possible roster of Chicago Blackhawks past and present in an effort to put together an incredible dream team of legends. This has been a very fun project, and I sincerely hope you’ve enjoyed reading along. In this final post, I’ve […]

Having already completed the Chicago Blackhawks’ best possible all-time roster’s forward group in the three posts linked below, it’s now time to turn to the defensive unit. As is the case with the three positions I’ve already done, the Blackhawks have been very fortunate to have quite a few outstanding defensemen throughout the history of […]

The Chicago Blackhawks are one of the NHL’s most storied and successful franchises in history. They would never have gotten there if they didn’t have great players on their roster with great regularity. Over all the eras of NHL hockey in Chicago, there have to be 20 players who were the best at their respective […]

Every NHL franchise in existence has their greats. Fans of every team have their players from the past that they idolize and hope that the current crop of players can grow and develop into someone like them. The Chicago Blackhawks are no exception to this rule. While the left-wing and the right-wing positions may be […]

The Chicago Blackhawks are one of the most storied franchises in the history of hockey. As such, it makes sense that they would not be lacking in terms of all-time greats who have laced them up for their side. From Mikita to Hull to Chelios to Esposito, it’s a sure bet that the Blackhawks’ best […]

It’s now late August, and as such, the calendar dictates that we are in the middle of the slowest part of the year for hockey news and discussion. The dog days of summer are something we’ve learned to deal with on an annual basis, but that never seems to make it any easier the next […]

The most certain way to have success in the NHL is to maintain a strong pool of prospects at all times. Even though they have won three Stanley Cup championships in the past six years, the Chicago Blackhawks’ prospect pool has suffered minimally despite having consistently late draft picks. There’s a solid level of depth […]

Not only are the Chicago Blackhawks the reigning Stanley Cup Champions, but they also have a rather deep prospect pool. Most successful teams pick late in the draft on a yearly basis, and the Blackhawks are no exception. However, savvy picks from General Manager Stan Bowman where he has them, combined with shrewd international signings […]

Every single superstar in every single sport is stepping into his own unique situation when he gets drafted to his new team. Every sports franchise has their own unique dynamics with regards to personnel, coaching, management, fan expectations, and locations. Due to this, every potential franchise player is tasked with navigating his way through the […]

It may sound strange to hear that a defenseman who logged 21:53 of time on ice per game just a season ago is set to hold even more responsibility, but that is exactly the situation in which Niklas Hjalmarsson of the Chicago Blackhawks finds himself in as the 2015-2016 NHL season approaches. Hjalmarsson, 28, has […]

With the rise of the influence of the analytics community over the landscape of hockey, many new statistics have come to the forefront of forward-thinking analysis. One of those stats, known as PDO, was created with the primary goal of quantifying how lucky or unlucky a given team or player has been. The statistic is […]

The Chicago Blackhawks are once again the defending Stanley Cup champions. Though while they may sit atop the league as a result of such a title, they are not so unlike other teams in that they, too will have their surprises. These surprises are sure to come both in pleasant and unpleasant forms. Every year, […]

With the rise of the influence of the analytics community over the landscape of hockey, many new statistics have come to the forefront of forward-thinking analysis. One of those stats, known as PDO, was created with the primary goal of quantifying how lucky or unlucky a given team or player has been. The statistic is […]

With the rise of the influence of the analytics community over the landscape of hockey, many new statistics have come to the forefront of forward-thinking analysis. One of those stats, known as PDO, was created with the primary goal of quantifying how lucky or unlucky a given team or player has been. The statistic is […]

After over a year of widespread rumors and speculation, the Chicago Blackhawks were finally able to move veteran winger Patrick Sharp in a trade. In return for Sharp, the Blackhawks received a package from the Dallas Stars that included defenseman Trevor Daley and forward Ryan Garbutt. Those two players appear highly likely to be virtual locks […]