Do the Chicago Blackhawks really need to get bigger?

Nikita Zadorov, Chicago Blackhawks (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)

When the Blackhawks lost to the Golden Knights in the playoffs last year one of the common themes was that Chicago wasn’t big enough. This in part may have led-then General Manager Stan Bowman to acquire Nikita Zadorov. However, is size really that much of an impediment for Chicago?

Whether or not the Chicago Blackhawks are big enough was a critique of the team recently made by the Daily Herald’s John Dietz. This isn’t a new argument. People have debated a player’s size as much as they’ve debated everything else. The problem is that this argument doesn’t make sense, certainly not this season.

This year is about the…