As we begin to sift through the ashes of the five-alarm fire that was the Chicago Blackhawks 2017-18 season, it feels like a proverbial line has been crossed by this organization.
Since 2010, whenever this Blackhawks team has needed a Herculean effort to get out of a massive hole, it’s delivered.
You know all the greatest hits and deepest cuts of this album by now: forcing a Game 7 against the top-seeded Vancouver Canucks, a pair of overtime victories against the then-Phoenix Coyotes, rallying from a 3-1 deficit against the Detroit Red Wings, overcoming a 2-1 deficit to the Boston Bruins, pushing the Los Angeles Kings into overtime of Game 7 before a horrific bounce ended it all, erasing a 3-2 deficit to the Anaheim Ducks and countless regular season comebacks that are on the B-side.