Blackhawks Reporter Brian Hanley MAKES HIS CASE for Ed Belfour to Enter Chicago’s Hall of Fame
CHGO Chicago Blackhawks Podcast
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🗓️ 24 May 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Eddie Belfour should have and could have won a Stanley Cup or two with the Chicago Blackhawks, |
| 0:05.3 | back to Greg's point. |
| 0:06.4 | You needed that one more guy. |
| 0:08.1 | It wasn't because of Eddie Belfour's lack of talent between the pipes, right? |
| 0:11.9 | I mean, that guy, first off, from rookie year on, he wins the Calder Cup. |
| 0:15.0 | And I've never saw anyone so meticulous about his equipment. |
| 0:20.8 | He would sit there and just grind those skates in the hallway outside. I've never saw anyone so meticulous about his equipment. |
| 0:20.8 | He would sit there and just grind those skates in the hallway outside the dressing room |
| 0:26.9 | till they were perfect. |
| 0:28.7 | He knew exactly what he wanted. |
| 0:31.0 | And I mean, he was quirky. |
| 0:32.8 | He always reminded me of the guy who played Ernest T. Bass on Andy Griffith. |
| 0:37.2 | But Eddie was like laser focused on his craft. |
| 0:41.1 | And the fact that he had to go somewhere else and win a Stanley Cup wasn't his fault, right? |
| 0:46.5 | He certainly had the talent. And when you think about top two seasons for goalies with wins in 43 and 41, three-time All-Star. |
| 0:55.6 | He only eight seasons here, which, you know, again, if you paid your people, he would have |
| 0:59.7 | been here longer. |
| 1:01.3 | He's in the hockey Hall of Fame, so of course he should be in the Blackhawks Hall of Fame. |
| 1:07.1 | Yeah, he's getting my vote on the Heritage side. |
| 1:09.7 | And just for me, like the perfect age in my teens watching him play as I'm becoming a Hawks fan, he was kind of everything that the 90s was supposed to be to. That whole that whole group was that, right? Like they're kind of a, I always call them like Motley crew on ice. They were kind of, they had the long hair and they're a little bit brash. And Eddie always had a stick for your undercarriage if he got too close to him and he would fly off the handle sometimes. But there's a, there's a locker room in St. Louis that remembers Eddie Belfour was there. But you mentioned the series against Colorado and I was at that game six in 1996 and that was Jeremy Roanick's final game as a hawk. |
| 1:50.1 | Hawks was four, three in double overtime, and it's Belfour versus Patrick Waugh, but the avalanche are so much better. He makes 44 saves on 45, or 40, yeah, 41 saves on 45 shots, |
| 1:57.5 | and he is just standing on his head, keeping the hawks in the game. And and it's just it feels like two to one scoring chances back and forth and finally |
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