T14. Chico Maki<\/strong><\/p>\nPowers (14): <\/b>It doesn\u2019t feel like any of the guys near the end of this list will ever get in.<\/p>\n
Lazerus (15): <\/b>I\u2019d love to see Blackhawks fans organize a \u201cJohn Scott to the All-Star Game\u201d-like movement and get one of these longtime, lifelong workaday Blackhawks in ahead of some of the flashier names.<\/p>\n
T14. Eric Nesterenko<\/b><\/p>\n
Powers (15): <\/b>Nesterenko played with the Blackhawks until he was 40.<\/p>\n
Lazerus (14): <\/b>Thanks for playing, Eric.<\/p>\n
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Duncan Keith will be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in November and will likely end up in the Blackhawks Hall of Fame shortly after. (Bruce Bennett \/ Getty Images)Modern<\/b>1. Duncan Keith<\/b><\/p>\n
Lazerus (1):<\/b>\u00a0Toews and Patrick Kane were the faces of the franchise for the Blackhawks\u2019 golden era, but Duncan Keith was the best player on the team. I bet you Toews and Kane would say the same. A first-ballot Hall of Famer and two-time Norris Trophy winner who is somehow still underrated in the larger hockey world.<\/p>\n
Powers (2): <\/b>Keith is the obvious choice, but he\u2019s undoubtedly going to have his number retired in the next couple of years, making him an automatic inductee. For that reason, I went with Patrick Sharp. He wasn\u2019t the best player on those teams, but he was there before things began to turn and played such a key role in all those Cup championships.<\/p>\n
2. Patrick Sharp<\/b><\/p>\n
Lazerus (3): <\/b>Sharp never met a shot he didn\u2019t take, but people sleep on how complete a player he was. His 200-foot game often rivaled that of Toews and Hossa.<\/p>\n
Powers (1): <\/b>I\u2019m curious how long Sharp will actually have to wait to be inducted into this.<\/p>\n
3. Niklas Hjalmarsson<\/b><\/p>\n
Lazerus (2): <\/b>Perhaps the best defensive defenseman of the modern era, both via the eye test and the analytics. And he did it while playing his off side the entire time.<\/p>\n
Powers (3): <\/b>Hjalmarsson felt like he got his due by the end of his career.<\/p>\n
4. Brent Seabrook<\/b><\/p>\n
Lazerus (4): <\/b>The emotional heartbeat of the team and everybody\u2019s obnoxious-but-endearing big brother. A pretty damn good hockey player, too.<\/p>\n
Powers (4): <\/b>I know we voted him fourth, but he probably gets in next, right?<\/p>\n
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Corey Crawford had a .932 save percentage during the 2013 Stanley Cup-winning run and .924 in 2015.5. Corey Crawford<\/b><\/p>\n
Powers (5): <\/b>It\u2019s too bad his career got cut short due to injuries.<\/p>\n
Lazerus (5): <\/b>Never mind the Blackhawks Hall of Fame. You can make a decent case that he belongs in the Hockey Hall of Fame \u2014 a case I made a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n
6. Tony Amonte<\/b><\/p>\n
Powers (6): <\/b>It\u2019s going to be challenging for anyone outside those recent Cup teams to get in. Amonte will probably have to wait until he falls into the heritage category.<\/p>\n
Lazerus (6): <\/b>He just sneaks in under the \u201cmodern\u201d criteria because his last Blackhawks season was 2001-02, but he might have had better luck with the \u201cheritage\u201d group. Amonte was ninth in the NHL in goals during his eight seasons with Chicago.<\/p>\n
7. Andrew Shaw<\/b><\/p>\n
Powers (8): <\/b>Shaw was a key role player on the second two Cup teams, but I just didn\u2019t think he should have been ahead of \u00c9ric Daz\u00e9.<\/p>\n
Lazerus (7): <\/b>Shaw might not have been as talented as some of the guys below him on this list, but he played a very important role on two Stanley Cup winners. That\u2019s a heck of a lot more than the rest of these guys can say.<\/p>\n
8. \u00c9ric Daz\u00e9<\/b><\/p>\n
Lazerus (9): <\/b>You still see No. 55 jerseys around the United Center on game day. Daz\u00e9 had a very nice career on some truly awful teams, with just one playoff appearance in his last eight seasons. Imagine where those Blackhawks teams would have been without him.<\/p>\n
Powers (7): <\/b>What could he have done if he had stayed healthy?<\/p>\n
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Brian Campbell averaged 23-plus minutes during the Blackhawks\u2019 2009-10 season. (Caylor Arnold \/ USA TODAY).9. Brian Campbell<\/b><\/p>\n
Powers (9): <\/b>Campbell was a significant signing for the organization and was a heck of a player, but this sort of felt like a kind gesture to him. He played just four seasons in Chicago.<\/p>\n
Lazerus (8): <\/b>And just three of those seasons came in his prime. Excellent player. His signing was a watershed moment for the franchise. But come on.<\/p>\n
10. Alexei Zhamnov<\/b><\/p>\n
Powers (10): <\/b>Zhamnov had a solid career, but the Blackhawks probably could have trimmed this ballot.<\/p>\n
Lazerus (10): <\/b>Solid player. Productive, too. Has no chance of getting into this Hall of Fame in the next decade.<\/p>\n
11. Steve Sullivan<\/b><\/p>\n
Powers (11): <\/b>In Sullivan\u2019s 34-goal season, he scored more shorthanded goals (8) than power-play goals (6). That\u2019s all I got.<\/p>\n
Lazerus (11): <\/b>Really does feel like they were straining to get to 12 guys on the ballot here.<\/p>\n
12. Jocelyn Thibault<\/b><\/p>\n
Lazerus (12): <\/b>Uh\u2026<\/p>\n
Powers (12): <\/b>See you in September!<\/p>\n
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