Hawks: We'll Take It!
CHICAGO (CBS) -- After letting Detroit take their playoff fate out of their own hands, Minnesota made sure the defending Stanley Cup champs will still have a date with destiny.
Yes, the stars aligned, allowing the Blackhawks to sneak into the post-season. CBS 2's Megan Mawicke caught up with the Hawks before they flew the coop for Vancouver
The Blackhawks were feeling good Monday after the wild Sunday filled with a roller coaster of emotions from disappointment of possibly not making the playoffs to jubilation when they backed in.
"You go from a feeling of having the idea that your season is over and you're not going to know what to do with yourself for the next couple of months to then the whole dream of winning a Stanley Cup comes back in," Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews told reporters.
Oh, and look what's back: Patrick Kane's playoff mullet, donned with racing stripes on the sides.
"Right after the Minnesota game, that was my first phone call to my barber, and he made the trip downtown, opened up the shop and gave me a quick haircut," Kane said.
The hawks have knocked the Canucks out of the playoffs the last two years, so they know Vancouver is out to get them but the hawks are hoping to be a dangerous team with a new lease on life.
"It's a clean slate. We know there's a level of intensity that still has to come, even more so than all of the game we've played all year long," Blackhawks head coach Joel Quenneville said.
The Hawks are off to Vancouver and the pressure is off of them. They are 13-1 odds to repeat, but they say they are relishing in the underdog role and believe anything can happen this year.
