et" home isn't one of them. In fact, the Blackhawks seem to draw even more resolve when they play the Red Wings, especially in the wake of Nicklas Lidstrom, Chris Chelios,Henrik Lundqvist Blue Jersey, Chris Osgood,Marian Hossa Jersey, Tomas Holmstrom, Kirk Maltby and Kris Draper retiring since 2009.Crawford was still in the minors then, and Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane, Patrick Sharp, Duncan Keith and Brent Seabrook were just getting their feet wet in the postseason. Marian Hossa, who plays alongside Toews on Chicago's top line, wore the winged wheel on his chest in his only season for Detroit in 2009, and the Red Wings had Henrik Zetterberg, Pavel Datsyuk and Johan Franzen at younger ages."At that time, I think we were pretty happy with where we went," Kane said. "It almost seemed like the Red Wings were, I don't want to say this, but it almost seemed like they were too good of a team to kind of get through and beat, especially when they beat us up a few games. It kind of made it a five-game series like you saw there. It was pretty intimidating."Take Kane's individual battles, for example."I was matching up against guys like Lidstrom," he said. "Watching a guy like that my whole life growing up … it's pretty scary going against a guy like that for a whole seven-game series, but it was cool. It was a great experience."It also was the first major growing pain for a Blackhawks team that's become one of the League's elite franchises. They set the Red Wings as the level they wanted to reach and now seem pretty close to getting there."They were the measuring stick, for sure, when we were a younger team," said Sharp, who was traded to the Blackhawks in 2005 from the Philadelphia Flyers. "They were someone that we looked up to, everything from their coaches right down to their last player was great. I can remember even further back, playing for the Flyers, rolling into Joe Louis Arena and seeing Brett Hull and [Brendan Shanahan] and Chelios. I mean, it looked like an All-Star team.""They were the measuring stick, for sure, when we were a younger team. They were someone that we looked up to, everything from their coaches right down to their last player was great. I can remember even further back, playing for the Flyers, rolling into Joe Louis Arena and seeing Brett Hull and [Brendan Shanahan] and Chelios. I mean, it looked like an All-Star team." --Blackhawks forward Patrick SharpDetroit is still in that elite conversation, despite undergoing the Red Wings' version of a makeover-on-the-fly, but it's impressive to think of how far the Blackhawks have come."The reality is they're good players, they've grown up," Mike Babcock, who's coached the Red Wings since 2005, said. "If you do a good job when you're a bad team, and you draft real well,Milan Lucic Jersey, you can probably ride that for eight to 10 years. You just have to be careful to be bad enough, long enough, so you get good enough."There were snickers when he said that Wednesday, prior to Game 1 of this series, but Babcock wasn't joking."You may laugh at that," he said. "Your fans don't want to hear it, but if you get too good, too fast, you'll never be good enough. Stay bad enough long enough in the new world you have a chance to be real good … and that's what they did."Blackhawks general manager Stan Bowman and his front office -- which included two assistants who left for NHL GM positions the past two years -- also did a great job of keeping Chicago elite. They kept the team's core group of stars intact and added quality depth players under the salary cap through draft picks (Andrew Shaw, Marcus Kruger), trades (Nick Leddy, Michael Frolik, Johnny Oduya,Tim Thomas Black Authentic Jersey, Michal Handzus) and free agency (Ray Emery, Michal Rozsival, Sheldon Brookbank, Daniel Carcillo, Jamal Mayers).That part is different than how Detroit did it for the bulk of its 22-season playoff-appearance streak. The Red Wings used to be like the New York Yankees, prior to the NHL salary cap starting in 2006-07,http://www.nhljerseyofficial.com/shop-by-player-anze-kopitar-jersey-c-343_345.html, spending big bucks to scoop up as much talent