NHL Update: Blackhawks Moving Down the Road to a Title

During a 49 year title drought after their Stanley Cup win in 1961, until their next one in 2010, the Chicago Blackhawks played in and lost 5 finals series.

After last night’s (2-1) road win at Tampa vs the Lightning, in game one of the 2015 finals, the team is heavily favored to win a third straight finals series, all in the past six seasons.

Additionally Chicago at one point had lost 16 of 17 road finals games until Patrick Kane’s “reviewed” Stanley Cup winning goal at Philadelphia, in game six in 2010.

Including that game, “Chi” has won 4 of 5 road finals games, including the Stanley Cup clinchers in 2010 and 2013, the latter in Boston.

The Blackhawks’ (2-1) win at Tampa vs the Lightning last night, was similar to their Cup clincher at Boston in game six in 2013.

Last night Chicago scored two goals in just under two minute’s time, the first with less than seven minutes to play, to overcome a one goal deficit and gain the victory.

In 2013, in a truly dramatic display (last night’s was not exactly “chopped liver”) the Blackhawks scored two goals in a seventeen second span in the last eighty seconds to overcome a one goal deficit in a road sixth game and win the Stanley Cup.