Not-so-breaking news: the 2017-18 Chicago Blackhawks didn’t score enough goals.
Of course, there were issues with the defense and goaltending as well, things already discussed in this postmortem of the prior season.
But putting the puck in the net was also an issue for the Blackhawks last season. Some of the star players were part of that, like Jonathan Toews, Brandon Saad and Patrick Kane. But the depth scoring also took a step back last year.
The breakout players from the 2016-17 season, from a depth scoring perspective, were Richard Panik and Ryan Hartman.