Happy Monday. The hockey season is here. This is the CHGO Blackhawks podcast. I'm Jay Zawoski.

Greg Boyson and Mario Teribasi. Sarah's here running the show today as well.

It is our season preview show.

We have a ton to get to and a limited amount of time to get to it.

So we're going to get right to it after you smash a like button,

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review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so here's what we're going to do central division western

and eastern conference playoff teams cup champion black hawks centric stats postseason awards

all of that in a one hour bag so So let's get right to it, fellas,

with our Central Division predictions. This is the only division where we're going to do

every team because this is the division of Blackhawks are in, if you didn't know. So let's start

there. Central Division. You want to go bottom to top or top to bottom? That's the one thing we

haven't discussed yet. Let's go bottom to top. Let's bottom? So one thing we haven't discussed yet. Let's go bottom to top.

Let's do it.

Because that means we start with the Blackhawks.

Spoilers.

I do.

Ye of little faith.

I expect this team to be much better than it was last year.

I expect games to be more competitive, more watchable. All of those things that

we're hoping for from what Kyle Davidson did this offseason to add to the team. Second year

of Connor Badar. I think things are in general going to be better. But being better than second to last in the NHL last season is a small

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