the blackhawks are seriously the best thing on earth the crazy thing about kane being the best player in the league right now is that i think it's real. yeah, his shot% is unsustainable, but i think people will be surprised at the end of the season when it hasn't regressed as much as most might assume it will. he's clearly stronger than in years past, and as long as he's getting the puck (BOLLAND), he's going to have his best year in terms of p/g (so long as sharpie pulls his head out of his shorts, which i'm pretty sure he will) and crawford playing better doesn't seem to be a mirage. he'll never be a puck whisperer like patrick roy, always in the perfect position and on the perfect angle, but he's seeing pucks further out and getting in better preventative position more often than not sometimes i wonder how much playing on a team with so many elite wingers probably crowds stalberg out of chances, but then i remember a) bowman is basically a genius for getting value out of trades everyone knew he had to make and thus b) paying stalberg like $8 an for what he puts up is better than whatever verbeauty would be doing on this team for much more