Les reconstructions des Blackhawks et des Sharks commencent à diverger alors que les Sharks accélèrent, les Hawks restent patients
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northernpace
@Blackhawks de Chicago
Les reconstructions des Blackhawks et des Sharks commencent à diverger alors que les Sharks accélèrent, les Hawks restent patients
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northernpace
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>However, both the Sharks and Hawks entered Saturday with the exact same number of regulation wins: 16. The difference between them entirely stems from overtime/shootout success, which is usually considered more luck than skill. The Sharks are 11-4 in post-regulation games while the Hawks are 5-9.
Just an odd side note but, holy crap the Pacific division is shit, not a single team would currently make the playoffs in the East lol
This is a painfully slow rebuild, ESPECIALLY because it followed years of complete middling ineptitude. We haven’t had a decent team to watch in 8 years.
But, patience is unfortunately still key and you have to see the forest through the trees. So many of our players of the future are still not on the first team, and many of those that are are so fucking young that it’s gonna take some time for them to become NHL caliber players.
We are absolutely loaded with prospects and need time to see who can contribute and who can be a valuable trade piece. There’s enough here to build a solid team from our system and to plug in the gaps with trades when the time comes
Even this recent horrid stretch in January is frustrating, but changes nothing about the direction this team is going. The fact we were even talking about playoffs around Christmas time is a miracle given how horrid we’ve been the last two years.
Celebrini has had a significantly more exciting start to his career than Bedard has, imo, but I still think we’ll see these players and squads as equals in a few years.
we have prospects in like 4 different leagues that have lead, or are leading, in some scoring metric this year.
The shl and khl are leagues with grown ass men, and we have college aged kids imposing their will.
Look, I don’t wanna get too far out in my skis and say this is a sure thing. Making league transitions can be tough and offer unforseen challenges and hiccups.
However, its also hard not to be, and stay, INCREDIBLY optimistic about our drafting.
Like you said the west is not a tough division. The hawks face a lot of contender teams constantly. I’ve seen memes saying Celebrini has talent around him while bedsy doesn’t. We have the talent we have just had injuries, sophomore slumps, and illness. Not disrespecting the sharks or Celebrini they are a good team and he is a great player.
Weve slowly reverted to being sucky again
Gotta start getting some of these OT/shootout wins it has been brutalllllllll
The other potentially massive difference is the Sharks don’t really have defensive prospects like the hawks do. And defensemen usually take some time to develop, something we’re seeing with Rinzel and Levshunov.
As it stands, the Hawks top 4 of the future is Vlasic, Rinzel, Levshunov and someone like crevier/Kaiser. I know the Sharks are excited about Dickinson (at least I think that’s his name), but that’s about it for defensemen. They’re a little behind the 8-ball in getting some good prospects, at least in my opinion.
While the Sharks have offensive prospects playing with Celebrini right now, Hawks have Frondell, Kantserov, Lardis, Boisvert, and another potential top 5 pick coming in, either at the end of this season or starting next season. Granted not all of them will pan out, but it will look better in time.
I hope the hawks maintain the pace they’re at now. Trying to mortgage the future for players that could be past their prime seems like a short sighted move. Not to mention hawks are playing in a MUCH tougher division.
I’ll just say this. if Bedard is anything short than an elite 100+ points per year player after this year… we are in trouble. I think he will be but you never know. He was on pace for 120 before he got hurt though.