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    Hawks Dynasty: The Chicago Blackhawks' Run to the 2015 Stanley Cup
    Hawks Dynasty: The Chicago Blackhawks' Run to the 2015 Stanley Cup
    Hawks Dynasty: The Chicago Blackhawks' Run to the 2015 Stanley Cup
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    Hawks Dynasty: The Chicago Blackhawks' Run to the 2015 Stanley Cup

    By Chicago Tribune

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    The Chicago Blackhawks’ 2015 postseason run culminated in the team’s third Stanley Cup since 2010, the sixth championship in the Original Six franchise’s history. The road to hoisting the Cup was the bumpiest of Chicago’s three titles under head coach Joel Quenneville. The Blackhawks finished third in the NHL’s Central Division following a season in which key players, including Patrick Kane and Corey Crawford, missed time due to injury. But the Hawks stormed past Nashville, Minnesota and Anaheim to set up a Stanley Cup Final matchup against a young, fast Tampa Bay Lightning team.
      With new heroes emerging throughout the postseason, the Blackhawks battled through a tough, six-game first round series against Nashville before sweeping the Minnesota Wild to reach the Western Conference Final. In an epic series that featured three overtime contests, the Blackhawks overcame a 3-2 deficit to defeat the Ducks in seven games to advance to the Stanley Cup Final.
      Packed with one of a kind analysis and stunning photography from the Chicago Tribune, Hawks Dynasty takes fans through the Blackhawks’ journey, from the crushing loss to the Los Angeles Kings in Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals in 2014 through the final seconds against Tampa Bay. This commemorative edition also includes profiles of Kane, Crawford, Jonathan Toews, Duncan Keith, Brandon Saad and Scott Darling.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTriumph Books
    Release dateJun 17, 2015
    ISBN9781633194328
    Hawks Dynasty: The Chicago Blackhawks' Run to the 2015 Stanley Cup

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      Hawks Dynasty - Chicago Tribune

      Patrick Kane points to his teammates as he celebrates his third-period goal in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup final at the United Center. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

      For the first time since 1938, the Blackhawks celebrate a Stanley Cup championship on their home ice after winning Game 6 of the Cup final over Tampa Bay on June 15, 2015. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)

      Contents

      Introduction

      Stanley Cup Final

      Red Reign

      The 2014-2015 Season

      Patrick Kane

      Jonathan Toews

      Duncan Keith

      Brandon Saad

      Corey Crawford

      So Close They Still Taste It

      Gossip Gone Wild Crosses the Line

      Star Struck

      Deadline Deals Show It’s All About Now

      Kane Makes Hawks Whole

      2014-15 Blackhawks Game-by-Game Results

      Western Conference Quarterfinals

      Scott Darling

      Western Conference Semifinals

      Western Conference Finals

      Chicago Blackhawks Make Headlines

      Introduction

      For those of us who lived through the previous golden era of Blackhawks hockey, the team’s recent ascendance is at once familiar and strange.

      In the days of Bobby Hull and Stan Mikita, the Hawks were a hot ticket — just like now — and the old Stadium was always full — just like now. But back then, with only six teams in the entire National Hockey League (and only four of those six in the U.S.), being a fan felt more like belonging to a cult.

      Despite the fact that they competed against a much smaller field (only six teams comprised the NHL until the 1967-68 season, when the league doubled in size to 12 teams), those great Hawks teams of the 1960s and ’70s managed to win just one Stanley Cup, in 1961. Compare that to the current Blackhawks, who had to fend off 29 other teams for the right to hoist the Cup — a feat they accomplished three times in six seasons, creating a generation of new fans who form what we now know as Blackhawk Nation.

      These Blackhawks also have to deal with the glare and heat of an always-on media machine; the home games of the Hull-Mikita era were not even televised locally. Consider the contrast to today, when every play — good and bad — is replayed and dissected in real time across multiple media platforms.

      There are many reasons to celebrate these Blackhawks, to savor this run of championships that surely qualifies them as a modern-era dynasty. But the best reason is this: Who knows when we will see the likes of this team again?

      Marian Hossa (center) is mobbed by teammates after the Blackhawks’ 2-0 victory over Tampa Bay in Game 6 of the 2015 Stanley Cup final. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

      With that in mind, we put together the book you hold in your hands. It is meant to mark a special moment in time, this unprecedented era — a new ice age, if you will — when the Blackhawks stood front and center in the hearts and minds of Chicago sports fans. Hawks Dynasty contains a wealth of magnificent images from the Tribune’s team of award-winning photographers as well as stories by the sports staff, all of which chronicle the team’s amazing quest to reclaim a title that had so cruelly eluded them a year before. Designed and produced by our friends at Triumph Books, Hawks Dynasty expertly captures the drama and excitement of a truly unforgettable season.

      Don’t let the glow of this golden era fade. Relive it through these pages, and remember it fondly forever, because history tells us that someday — probably sooner than we’d like — these, too, will be the good old days.

      Joe Knowles

      Associate Managing Editor / Sports

      Chicago Tribune

      Stanley Cup Final

      For the third time in six seasons, the Blackhawks pose with the Stanley Cup for the traditional on-ice team photo. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

      Stanley Cup Final – Game 1

      June 3, 2015 | Blackhawks 2, Lightning 1

      Fantastic Finnish

      Teravainen, Vermette strike 1:58 apart in 3rd as Hawks prevail

      By Chris Kuc

      Even before Tesla coils sent jolts of electricity high above the ice, Amalie Arena was super-charged in anticipation of Game 1 of the 2015 Stanley Cup Final.

      The Blackhawks saved their burst of energy for the end and rallied to stun the Lightning 2-1 and take home-ice advantage in the series.

      Teuvo Teravainen and Antoine Vermette scored 1 minute, 58 seconds apart late in the third period to make a winner of goaltender Corey Crawford. Alex Killorn had a highlight-reel goal early in the first period for the Lightning, but Ben Bishop couldn’t make it hold up.

      Tampa was all over us in the first, Teravainen said. Myself, I got better and our team got better all the time in the game. Huge two goals and a great win.

      The first surprise of the series occurred during pregame warmups when Bryan Bickell wasn’t on the ice and fellow winger Kris Versteeg was. After not playing the final two periods of Game 7 of the Western Conference finals against the Ducks, Bickell practiced Tuesday and participated in Wednesday’s morning skate. Heading into Game 1 of the finals, it was uncertain as to whether Bickell had suffered an injury or if coach Joel Quenneville held him out against the Ducks because of poor play.

      Patrick Sharp raises his arms in celebration as he watches a shot by Antoine Vermette land in the Lightning net behind goalie Ben Bishop. Vermette’s third-period goal broke a 1-1 tie and proved to be the game-winner as the Blackhawks took a 1-0 lead in the series. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

      We’ll say it was my decision but we’ll say a little bit of both, Quenneville said Monday when asked if Bickell was benched or injured.

      After Wednesday’s game he said Bickell had an upper-body injury.

      The Lightning displayed their skill early on Killorn’s goal at 4:31 of the first. The forward baffled Crawford by batting in a floating puck with a brilliant backhander to send another jolt of energy into the crowd.

      The game reached deep into the third before the Hawks struck at 13:28 to stun the crowd of 19,204. First, Teravainen sent a shot from the left circle that sailed past a screened Bishop. Vermette then gave the Hawks a 2-1 advantage when he wristed a shot from the slot.

      Playing in his first Cup final game, Teravainen said he sought advice of some Hawks teammates about what to expect but otherwise is taking the experience as it comes.

      I just have to think it’s like normal and do all the same things,

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