Chicago Blackhawks 2024-2025 Season Predictions

Let's be honest, making predictions is so much fun!

They may be wildly optimistic, they may be based on personal hope rather than reason, and they may even be laughable by the time the season concludes but isn't that the joy of it all? I love to write down several predictions in stone at the start of every season and then by the end, return to my predictions and see just how wrong (or right, more likely) I was.

I'm going to give five bold predictions today that I will return to at the season's end, and I encourage each of you to do the same! If you have a notebook or even just the notes tab on your phone, make some predictions of your own and let me know in the comments of this article what you are thinking!

I am curious to hear other Hawks fans put themselves out there. So, without further ado, let's get predicting.

Prediction One: The Blackhawks Will Not Finish Last in the Central Division Standings

Perhaps some of you don't see this as a bold prediction but unfortunately, finishing last is still a very likely possibility given the talent of the teams in the Central Division.

In a separate article, I am going to give my prediction for the full NHL standings, so I won't spoil too much here. However, if you look through the Central Division, it is daunting, to say the least. However, I firmly believe that this team, with the additions that they made in the summer, will finally begin the long climb from the depths of the NHL basement back to relevancy and glory.

It is also worth noting that there are surprisingly "bad teams" every season, that is, teams we expect to be competent and instead struggle tremendously. So if one of those teams is in the Central Division, then the Hawks have a prime opportunity to jump ahead of them.

I won't spoil exactly how I see the Division standings looking yet (again, read my future article where I break that down in detail), but I no longer see the Hawks as the worst team in their division.