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It’s official: The #Blackhawks will face the Ducks in the Western Conference Final. #OneGoal
— Chicago Blackhawks (@NHLBlackhawks) May 11, 2015
Western Conference NHL Odds: Chicago or Anaheim?
The Blackhawks entered the 2014-15 season as one of the teams at the top of the bookies list of favorites, and they certainly came out looking very strong indeed. That all changed when Patrick Kane went down with an injury that would keep him out for a large portion of the regular season. Their odds of winning the Stanley Cup dropped dramatically when the bad news was delivered, and they dropped even further as Chicago struggled to maintain any sort of consistency with their star player out of the lineup. It was later revealed that Kane would return for the postseason, but the feeling was that he would come back rusty, and that the Blackhawks would continue to struggle.
Those doubts were pretty much cast aside early on, as Kane managed 2 goals and 5 assists in 6 games in round 1 versus the Nashville Predators. The more he played, the more comfortable he looked, and it’s fair to say that he played a major role in Chicago getting the series win versus the Predators. He, and the team as a whole, were even better in the second round against a very good Minnesota Wild team. Kane scored in each of the 4 games, tallying 5 goals and an assist as the Blackhawks swept the Wild with very little difficulty at all. It was the performance in the second round that really made people sit up and take notice. That included the bookies, who now have the Blackhawks in as the favorite to win the Stanley Cup.
