streitz
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- Jul 22, 2018
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Uh... No. Not even close. Chicago had a lot of solid players in the 80's.
For example, Doug Wilson who won the Norris Trophy in 1982 and was an excellent blueliner throughout the decade.
Darryl Sutter was an excellent goal scorer for the Hawks. He scored 40-goals in his rookie year with the club, had 31-goal season in '82-'83 and rang up three more 20-goal seasons despite playing just 40, 59 and 49 games in those seasons.
Troy Murray was an excellent two-way center that had a 45-goal, 99-point season for Chicago and Ed Olczyk came from the US Olympic team right to the Hawks and contributed immediately before being swapped to Toronto in a deal that brought Rick Vaive to Chicago where he scored 43 goals and then got sent to Buffalo for Adam Creighton who managed 34 goals and 70 points in his first full year with the club.
Steve Thomas also came over in the Rick Vaive trade and put up 40 goals for the Hawks
Dirk Graham was an excellent defensive forward who topped out at 78 points and 33 goals his best year with Chicago and went on to become their captain (and the first African American captain in NHL history.)
There were plenty of good players in Chicago, they just weren't on the same level as the Oilers who they collided with in the playoffs on a few occasions, but really, not many teams were.
You literally just listed a bunch of average-above players every team had then wrote a little story about them to make it seem like they were better then they were.