For those who caught the pregame show on NBC Sports Chicago before Wednesday’s Chicago Blackhawks game against the Carolina Hurricanes, reporter Charlie Roumeliotis had a segment which later made its way to YouTube under the title, “Blackhawks improving statistically in some underlying numbers.”
Reasonable people can disagree, so let’s consider the information below a respectful — yet fervent and adamant — retort of, “No, they absolutely are not.”
Here’s the segment in question:
As always, all data comes from the incredible resource that is Natural Stat Trick.