Patrick Kane #88, Chicago Blackhawks (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images
The Chicago Blackhawks will be a tough out for the Oilers, even though they’re not elite anymore.
The Chicago Blackhawks not being elite doesn’t mean they can’t become elite during this potential playoff run. It’s no secret that the Blackhawks fell apart during the past five seasons. They were the team to beat in the Western Conference for years, now they’re just a playoff hopeful.
The team was very elite from 2009 up to around 2017. The second they were swept by the Predators in the 2017 Stanley Cup Playoffs, everything changed.