Winning Without The Stars: Missing Key Players, Hawks Still Leading Their Division Comments
Posted on
November 01, 2009 by
David Morris
Patrick Sharp (foreground) is one reason the Hawks are winning without Captain Jonathan Toews (background).
When Patrick Sharp scored the game winner with just four and a half minutes left in the Blackhawks’ last game for the month of October, Coach Joel Quenneville’s knuckles might have been as white as his hair.
Four regulars—grinders Adam Burish and Ben Eager, Hawk Captain Jonathan Toews, newcomer Marian Hossa—are missing from the lineup. Top defenseman Brent Seabrook just returned after being out for a pair of games with ‘concussion-like symptoms’.
So Quenneville and his men have been finding ways to win, that contrast with the explosive style fans now expect from Chicago Blackhawks hockey.
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