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All For One In Chicago
by Paul on 12/14/09 at 01:09 PM ET
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from Mike Kiley of Blackhawks Confidential,
Individual Hawks are succeeding, but no one has stood out singly more than others. The mug shot has been replaced by the mass hysteria of team harmony, where the monster lumbers and looms ominously as one.
If that’s a cliche, so be it. But the Hawks are a collective nightmare with a very diverse group of stars coalescing rather than being a star-driven team that needs a few guys to be at their best or else fail day after day.
That’s why there should be no goalie controversy now or ever this season. It matters not whether it’s Cristobal Huet or Antti Niemi in goal, because the team defense rules. It matters not that Dave Bolland and Adam Burish are healing, the defense is driving the momentum game-in, game-out.
Do we miss Bolland and Burish? Hell, yeah. But the tumor of terror waits for no man.
Put them together and Cris and Andy spell C-Andy in net, but they aren’t as sweet as Tony Esposito or even the demented Ed Belfour by themselves. They don’t have to be. They have help unlike previous Blackhawks’ clubs where it was every man for himself.
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