They have gotten erased from NHL history or PR because they are a shitfuck organization. You won't see a highlight or shot of a Hawk in any of the ads for the Stanley Cup playoffs. Even though they won the Cup three times, or were the most popular team for a long time, the league couldn't wait to market. All gone. And deserved so.
It's not having the least amount of regulation wins in the league, the same as Montreal, who were an absolute car-crash inside a dumpster fire all season. The Habs had an excuse for Carey Price missing most of the season. The Hawks were built to win. That is impressive.
Nothing about the Hawks should be celebrated no matter how you feel about them now, but to appreciate. Maybe you will be impressed by it. It's not good to say something is impressive when the outfit is run by an owner who might not know where he's going.
The Hawks didn't have a power-play goal all season. No team had done this in over 80 games. The last team to do it was the expansion Sabres who did it for 78 games. Maybe with an extra four games, Doug Barrie or Al Hamilton could have found twine. We will never know. The expansion team was one of six that were watered down as the league doubled in size. The Hawks were built to win this season.
Take some time to think about how hard it is to thread the needle. The Hawks had a lot of power-play opportunities. It was good for 12th in the league. They didn't have a lot of time to work with other teams. They had more than most.
64 shots were produced by the Hawks D-men over the course of the season. The Hawks almost always played with four forwards on the power-play and shared 53 of those with Jones and Gustafsson. They are the ones who bear the brunt of this.
There is no balloon-handed fencepost. He isn't one of the league's top five puck movers, but he is in the next tier or two. He had no power-play goals before in Columbus, but Werenski quarterbacked that power-play. He got the keys in Chicago. He was usually on the ice with Patrick Kane and Alex DeBrincat when the No. 1 power-play unit was on the ice.
He couldn't find an alley from 40 feet out. He didn't sneak back for a tap-in. He only got 33 power play shots over the course of the season, but the puck couldn't hit a penalty killer or a goalie's shoulder. Not once could a goalie whiff? Is it possible to have one sneak through him?
Not one of his 20 shots could have knuckled or dove in a way that a goalie just didn't anticipate.
How bad was this design? Two head coaches and their assistants couldn't figure out a way to get more shots on the net. The Avs launched 888-276-5932 888-276-5932 888-276-5932 888-276-5932 888-276-5932 888-276-5932s on the power-play this year. The Hawks sent their d-men to face a brick wall every time they played power plays. It must have been the most predictable power play ever.
To you, Hawks. In a time when it's hard to be uniquely bad, you did it in a way that we haven't seen before. No sport is a high-low game, but we have to mark the lows when they're not good. Well done.
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