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[edit] Chicago Blackhawks

I think the article explains this franchise very well, probably one of the best team pages on the NHL on here

As one of the longtime active ice hockey WikiProject members, I have to disagree; the Blackhawks' page is one of the poorer NHL team pages and certainly well short of featured article status. Stylistically, the entire eighty years of team history is in one long unbroken section, and could stand some subheadings. More importantly, the tone of the article is surprisingly negative considering the franchise's achievements over the years, which include three Stanley Cup championships, coming within a year of tying the longest stretch of making the playoffs in North American professional sports history, and fielding the first all-American lineup in NHL history. The team's genuine accomplishments are glossed over in favor of lavish (and not really justified) descriptions of failure that reads as if a partisan hand was responsible. Finally, a number of NPOV violations have cropped in, and while I'm going to edit those out, a FAC shouldn't have them in the first place. There are a number of fine hockey articles that deserve feature status; this is not yet one of them. RGTraynor 17:43, 3 July 2006 (UTC)