New blog! A look at the paradox of playing along the wall in hockey and how the Blackhawks can improve in this area where they’ve struggled.

Also, a perspective on Stan Bowman and Jaime Faulkner being named co-presidents.

https://www.hockeybuzz.co...ox/Wallflowers/284/108765

* also some underperforming players over the years

R Johnsson (lost trade for S Jones)
Colin Wilson
Duschene
Turris
Rhine (playoffs)

Lack of a true #1 center
S Weber lost to Montreal
- jhawk59

Exactly. Even the so-called top GMs make mistakes. Fans too often evaluate GMs against the strawman of perfection which necessarily leaves every GM less than hoped for. Maybe a better metric for evaluating GMs would be to rank them in least bad category.