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The 2016-2017 NHL season will waste no time getting started. Opening night features a divisional matchup between the St. Louis Blues and the Chicago Blackhawks.
Wednesday 12th on NBCSN at 8:00 PM EDT Proceeds going to the prize pool for the steemit fantasy hockey league
St. Louis Blues
The Blues are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year, and they are expecting another excellent season after making the Conference Finals last year.
Their 2015-2016 record was 49-24-9, with 107 points. They finished at 2nd place in the Central Division
Their offensive attack is spearheaded by Vladimir Tarasenko, who was fifth in the league last year with 40 goals.
Chicago Blackhawks
The Blackhawks will continue to be contenders every year, as long as they have Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews as the core of their offense. Last year was something of a disappointment, as they lost to the Blues in the first round of the playoffs.
The Blackhawks will be without their top-pairing defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson, due to a suspension he received for charging in a pre-season game.
The Blackhawks are an Original Six team, while the Blues entered play in the 1967 expansion. The long-standing bitter rivalry between sports fans from Chicago and St. Louis, which are separated by 300 miles, as seen in the Cardinals–Cubs rivalry in Major League Baseball, has led to the Blackhawks and Blues to have an intense hatred for each other. The two teams have been in the same division since 1970 (Western 1970–74, Smythe 1974–81, Norris 1981–93, Central 1993–present). They also qualified for the playoffs together every season from 1980 to 1997. Every Norris Division Final from 1982 to 1993 involved either the Blackhawks or Blues, or both teams. The only year that neither team was in the division final was 1987, when the Detroit Red Wings faced the Toronto Maple Leafs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackhawks%E2%80%93Blues_rivalry
In their five regular season meetings last year, the Blues won three games; all in overtime. Their first round playoff matchup went to seven games, and the Blues were victorious.
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