I'm completely underwhelmed by the performance of the Blackhawks in their series. Detroit barely made the playoffs, and needed help to do so. It's an old team with little in the way of young and exciting prospects, and with no Nick Lidstrom the defence is kind of weak by NHL playoff standards. What they do have is post-season experience and know-how, and of course the incomparable Pavel Datsyuk.

Still, this is a beatable team, and if Chicago goes down 2-1 as seems to be the case, I feel it's a pretty great deception on their part. Where is the team that set the NHL-record winning streak this season?