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Chicago Must Improve Defense to Win Cup

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Blackhawks general manager Stan Bowman need not lift a finger from now until the NHL trade deadline Feb. 27.

You want to sit in your leather GM chair and play Words With Friends with three of your closest cellphone buddies? Have at it. Heck, ‘‘Quenneville’’ would score big and use up that nasty ‘‘Q.’’

You want to flick some pencils into the ceiling? Good luck with that. Whatever passes the time.

Without a phone call to an opposing GM, without a glance at the standings to monitor who is waving the white flag, this Hawks team would skate into the postseason as is. Too much talent, too much offense.

Thank goodness that’s not where the bar...

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