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Blackhawks Daily: Winning in the Cap Era; Top Line Arguments

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What’s your guess on where the Blackhawks sit with wins all time during the Cap Era? Top 10? Mid? Bottom half. Bottom 10? I’ll admit even I was surprised.



Clocking in with 713 wins, the Hawks are in the bottom 10 of NHL teams during the Cap Era. In the midst of the Cup run from 2010-2015, it seemed by this point in the journey, they’d be top five. But when one zooms out of the 19 years of Cap hockey, it turns out to be the small subset. In fact, the winning seasons spanned from 2007-08 to 2016-17 and then again in 2018-19 and 2019-20.

That sample size sees a team that was so good through the first half of the 2010’s but the seasons of losing collected a lot of L’s. Despite 12 winning seasons, they only accumulated a bottom half’s worth of wins in the Cap Era. It shows again just how hard winning consistently is in the league–and why Davidson has shown great care with how he has built so far.

For sure, those three Cups made it all worthwhile for fans. But Davidson is building to only have multiple Cups, but a much longer widow of contention.

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