Playoff Dreaming, Nazar Highlights, Mulvey's Records, and Other Blackhawks Bullets - Bleacher Nation

Playoff Dreaming, Nazar Highlights, Mulvey's Records, and Other Blackhawks Bullets - Bleacher Nation

Happy Labor Day, folks. We’re another sleep closer to Blackhawks hockey, which is just lovely. We’re all hoping to see the Blackhawks in the playoffs sooner than later. That requires to things: the Hawks to get significantly better… and team(s) to replace them at the bottom of the standings. That’s one of the reasons I wrote our offseason reset series for all of the other teams in the Central Division (which you can find links to at our convenie…

Do the Blackhawks have a path to fourth place in the Central Division?

For the Hawks to accomplish their ambitious playoffs goal this season, they likely will have to leapfrog the Jets, Blues, Predators and Mammoth. If you squint, that seems at least within the realm of possibility.

Do Blackhawks have a path to fourth place in Central Division?

The Blackhawks are going to talk a lot about competing for the playoffs this season. Defenseman Alex Vlasic has led the way with that rhetoric, hoping to speak it into existence, but he won’t be alone once his teammates start doing regular interviews during training camp, which starts Sept. 17. What would it take for the Hawks to make the playoffs? It certainly sounds unlikely, given how far outside the field the Hawks have been recently. They m…