Jeremy Colliton showed the same maturation as an NHL head coach at his end of the year Zoom press conference on Friday — marking the end of his second season with the Blackhawks — as he did when his players were prepared to flip the script in a once in a lifetime postseason opportunity against a better team on paper.
The Hawks beat the home ice Oilers in four games for the best-of-five series in the postseason tournament's qualifying round, giving Colliton his first career postseason series win in the NHL as a head coach. Then, they advanced to lose to the stacked, Stanley-Cup caliber Vegas Golden Knights.