When the Chicago Blackhawks acquired Johnny Oduya from Dallas at this season’s trade deadline, many figured the Blackhawks would be just fine on the blue line. It looked like a much deeper unit with former Blackhawk Oduya back in the fold, likely to wash away the taste of the team’s lackluster blue line in last season’s playoffs.
Flash forward to being less than two weeks from regular season’s end, and the Blackhawks have wound up with just as many questions as answers on the blue line. What’s going on here?
Well, even while the Blackhawks have won seven of 12 games since Oduya’s re-debut in Chicago, they haven’t looked terribly strong in about half of them.