The Chicago Blackhawks are back in the playoffs, which is great for hockey. For a while, they were the team that teams needed to get through to get to the Stanley Cup. The examples being Vancouver in 2011, Los Angeles in 2014, and Nashville in 2017.
This time around, the Blackhawks are in a different situation, a situation we haven’t seen before. It will now come down to winning three games against the Oilers, a team that on paper is better than the Blackhawks. But, the number of playoff veterans on the Blackhawks outmatch the Oilers.