from Chris Johnston of Sportsnet,

Once the Blackhawks wondered. Now they know.

They know that they are good enough to parade the Stanley Cup around the ice at United Center on Monday night. They know that if they miss this opportunity they might never get it back.

This is a great team — the golden era for an 89-year-old organization — but it is also a team in transition. They battled through malaise in the regular season, seeing 11 teams win more regulation and overtime games, and defied death in the Western Conference final.

Now they’ve taken control of a coin-flip Stanley Cup Final and don’t want to cede it back to the Tampa Bay Lightning. If they win the next game, they’ll lift the 35-pound silver trophy on home ice for the first time since 1938.

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