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ElGuapo · 4617 days ago · link · · parent · post: We Just Come From Such Different Sets Of Circumstance: SCH's Phoenix Coyotes Preview
Many of your points are pretty much correct, I can't argue that Crawford or Emery have been on top of their game this season, but I couldn't say that for Turco last season or Niemi or Huet the season before when we won the cup. As far as saying the Hawks have the worst defense in the entire western conference is a bit overstated, sure the Ga is in the high end, but if you look for the GA averages on the western side its not too far off from everyone else. As far as band wagoners, if you didn't grow up around Chicago, you may not know that the former owner did not allow any home games to be broadcast for many many years in the hopes that it would drive fans to the stadium to watch games, so when we got new owners ~4 or so years ago people finally got to see hockey on TV, so id say while we did have some fair weather fans when we won the cup, most of it is just Chicago becoming more hockey centric.
I am aware of the WWW situation there. Old man Wirtz was a terrible owner, possibly the worst in the NHL. As to the D, I was just pointing out that of the teams in the West playoffs, Chi is 21st in GAA (2.76). Nsh is the next worst among West playoff teams at 10th in the league (2.47). That is a big difference, and it could cost dearly against an opportunist team like Pho.