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b_b  ·  4615 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: We Just Come From Such Different Sets Of Circumstance: SCH's Phoenix Coyotes Preview
I agree with SCH's assessment that the Hawks will probably win the series, but I don't share his belief that it will be easy. Firstly, Chi has by far the worst defense of any West team in the playoffs; its not even close. When dealing with a very well disciplined team like Phoenix, you have to be careful of such things. They will stand in the way and block shots until one lucky rebound leads to an odd man rush. They pushed the Wings to 7 in '10, and that Wings team was a lot better than this Hawks team.

Second, Chicago has awesome top end players, and then a bunch of spare parts. That might get then out of the first round, but no further.

Third, there is no comparison in goal; Phoenix has a huge edge.

And finally, when the author says: "While the Coyotes fans will try hard with their whiteout, you can probably expect what we've seen the past two years. That is huge blotches of red in the sea of white that are the invading Hawks fans", he is referring to the Wings fans in the last two years. Hawks have had a national presence for 4 years now. While they have a fair number of band wagon jumpers, there is no guarantee that their fans will fill the seats like the Wings fans have.

All in all, I think that their top end players will get the job done, but I think it will take 7 games.