Blackhawks: Predictions, roster and twitter

Hockey Pundits pick division and conference champs. Blackhawks are selected to win the Conference by only two pundits, with the rest going to the Wings. As for the conference goes, predicted to finish fourth by nearly all--which I think is reasonable.

It came down to the Canucks and the Blackhawks for me, and Vancouver's the pick for two reasons: Goaltending and good karma. As in what the Canucks possess that the Blackhawks do not.

Guy brings up a good point (aside from Vancouver winning conference).


Final roster has been set.

Forwards: Troy Brouwer, Dustin Byfuglien, Dave Bolland, Ben Eager, Colin Fraser, Patrick Kane, Tomas Kopecky, Andrew Ladd, John Madden, Patrick Sharp, Radek Smolenak, Jonathan Toews, Kris Versteeg

Defensemen: Cam Barker, Brian Campbell, Jordan Hendry, Niklas Hjalmarsson, Aaron Johnson, Duncan Keith, Brent Seabrook, Brent Sopel

Goalies: Corey Crawford, Cristobal Huet, Antti Niemi

Forward lines look solid. Defensive line is questionable. Barker had a break out year last year as did Hjalmarsson. Keith and Seabrook should be fine as for the other its a coin toss.


And finally during a Q&A tweet-session, good ole Marty had this to say:

Looking forward to any game in particular? Every game is important, going to be different playing against Chicago for sure.

Dude's going to come out with a major chip on his shoulder, rightly so.