Chicago Blackhawks: 76 Days Until Banner Raising

We had so much fun doing our Countdown to Faceoff series last season that we decided to do it again. In case you’re new to the series, we’ll do a roster preview as we count down the days until the Chicago Blackhawks raise their 6th Stanley Cup Banner on October 7th season opener against the New York Rangers.

After getting some new numbers the past two seasons in the 80’s and 90’s, we are again in the lull of numbers after you hit Paul Coffey‘s 77 until you get to the 50’s. There will be a few jersey numbers we hit but there won’t be a whole lot in our countdown the next week or so.

After doing this countdown for the past few years we have tried to throw in all-time lists of Chicago Blackhawks…