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Looking at a Potential Defensive System for the Chicago Blackhawks

Jeremy Colliton, Chicago Blackhawks (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)

With the Chicago Blackhawks owning a lackluster defense for the last couple of seasons, changes need to be made to the system, not so much the players.

In the last two seasons, the man-to-man defense system Jeremy Colliton deploys has not been doing well for the Chicago Blackhawks. There is always a missed assignment which usually leads to a high-danger scoring chance of which Corey Crawford or Robin Lehner would have bailed them out.

Unfortunately for the Chicago Blackhawks, they have neither goalie in net for next season, relying on unproven “prospects” (are 26-year-olds still considered prospects?