This native Chicagoan, who recalls the glory days of Hull, Mikita, Pilote, Hall, et al., but who now lives in exile in St. Louis—I am pumped about the new glory days of these Hawks! Two cups in four years!
Yep. Loved watching Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita, and Tony Esposito. Nice to see them win.
‘61 Hawks!!!!! Nesterenko, Maki, Kenny W. Stash, Bobby etc. etc. etc. Geeze what a year!!! The NHL’s ‘Original 6’, (those years from 1950-1966), was it’s best era in my opinion. Then the ‘67’-’72 6 year span with the Big Bad Bruin’s Espo and Bobby Orr, the hated Habs, (Especially that monster John Ferguson, remember when he picked a fight with Hull when Bobby had a mask on for a broken jaw, ‘69 or so?), at the front bringing in expansion.
After the heartbreak of 1971 and 1992, suffering through the Wirtz years which reached rock bottom 2003-2006, just wow. If you asked me in 2006 if there would be 2 cups in 4 years.
All I have to say is to NBC NBC SN: THE CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS ARE THE STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS- Chew on that