We had so much fun doing our Countdown to Faceoff series last season that we decided to do it again. In case you’re new to the series, we’ll do a roster preview as we count down the days until the Chicago Blackhawks raise their 6th Stanley Cup Banner on October 7th season opener against the New York Rangers.
Well of course we know that Nikolai Khabibulin wore #39 for most of his two stops with the Chicago Blackhawks, but for the sake of our jersey countdown to opening night we will go with the first number that he wore when he came to Chicago and that’s the number 53.