//Blackhawks ready to keep climbing mountain vs. Knights

Blackhawks ready to keep climbing mountain vs. Knights

Corey Crawford, Patrick Kane, Jonathan Toews and Duncan Keith won three Stanley Cup titles with the Chicago Blackhawks from 2010 to 2015, but they never had to rally from a 3-0 deficit to win a series in those championship years.

They found themselves in that unenviable position after three games last week against the top-seeded Vegas Golden Knights in the Western Conference first round, scratched out a win in Game 4 behind Crawford’s 48 saves, and now bring renewed energy into Game 5 on Tuesday night in Edmonton.

“We have some great young players to go with the guys who have been doing this for a while, so I like our chances,” Crawford told reporters.

Since Crawford, Kane, Toews and Keith began playing together in the 2007-08 season, they’d been on the verge of getting swept two other times, both in the first round.

The Blackhawks pushed the Vancouver Canucks to seven