from don't-call-it-the-Committed-Indian:
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7) We’ve been through this every year since always. The Blackhawks under [Joel Quenneville] are never gonna be that wire to wire juggernaut. If they weren’t when the roster was loaded with talent, why would they be now when half the team is still on training wheels?
The Blackhawks were damn near a wire-to-wire juggernaut in 2010 and only lost first place in the conference because the Sharks had more overtime losses. The worst you can say about the 2010 team is that they lost seven of ten in mid-to-late March, but that team's dominance was never in doubt. The 2013 team
did go wire-to-wire. Granted, in four of the previous five seasons, they did start crapping out around January and reaching terrifying lows around February, but to say that even the loaded rosters did this is misleading or willful lying. The 2012, 2014, 2015, and 2016 rosters that subjected us to such terrible hockey for weeks at a time were all clearly compromised by injuries (Toews in 2012), cap casualties (2014, 2016), or whatever was going on in the dressing room in 2015.
Oh, and can't take anything away from the Jets, they needed this one more than we did. Go beat up on the crappy Perds now.
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