Byline: Bill Placzek

I am going to take the position that The Detroit Red Wings were not a problem for the Chicago Blackhawks, just a learning experience.

Don't quickly turn to the final results of the series. Look at this way: a super young team came into the home rink of the Stanley Cup champions and in the first five minutes of game one, put them on their heels. They stayed tied until 7 minutes into the 3rd period in game one. In the second game, they took them to overtime. They won the third in OT, but stumbled hard in game four. Maybe what happens in any upcoming games changes nothing. Except for the fourth one, these were not one-sided games where the Blackhawks had a radical personnel deficit, where one team's line-up vastly over-matched the other teams, except for the hard fact that a veteran Red Wing squad showed why they were last year's Stanley Cup champions.

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