On Tuesday morning, Mark Lazerus and Scott Powers over at The Athletic published the results of their annual summer survey of Blackhawks fans. As I’ve mentioned since they posted the questionnaire, they do a nice job of asking broad questions and a few that are more focused. And the results are always fascinating.
In their intro, the guys note there were more votes (3,216 total) in this year’s Blackhawks fan survey than they have ever had at The Athletic. I’m not shocked that there’s a ton of engagement in the fan base (our traffic here is shattering records every month for Blackhawks coverage at BN) despite the team’s record remaining bad.
I encourage you to read their comments about the results. But I also wanted to discuss a few as well.
I’d like to specifically focus on a few questions that relate to the job of Blackhawks general manager Kyle Davidson. And, for the sake of this discussion, I’m going to take a few out of the order that they guys presented them because I think there is (should be?) some correlation in how fans responded.
So, if we translate 5 to an A, 4 to a B and so on, 51.4 percent of Blackhawks fans would give Davidson an A or B letter grade thus far. I’m not shocked that the second-highest response would be a C, but this feels like we’re seeing more buy-in from fans in the rebuild strategy because we’re some of his draft picks starting to matriculate their way to the NHL level — and make an impact there.
Here’s where my hopes/expectations of a correlation in answers starts to find some intrigue, though. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say Kyle Davidson’s job is the Blackhawks’ rebuild. As such, if you feel pretty good about the job he’s doing, one would tend to think you feel pretty good about the rebuild overall… right?
And yet here we are with more people assigning a C grade to the rebuild’s current state. Half of the more than 3,100 fans who responded to this question gave the rebuild a C or D at this point. So there appears to be a disconnect between the perception of Davidson’s performance and the rebuild.
Okay…
That brings me to two more questions that focused on Davidson’s job to date that had widely different responses to what feels like almost the same question.
We’ve talked a lot here about the why behind the Blackhawks not being more engaged in free agency since the market opened on July 1. And, based on reactions and comments here and on social media, I’m not terribly surprised that the voting here was relatively even. I was at least a little surprised to see the highest percentage was giving Davidson a B for his free agency work this summer — or lack thereof.
But one would think the results to that question would be almost mirrored in responses to this question:
Based on the percentages, it looks like 14 percent of the fans who answered this question flipped from an A to a C on the grading scale for the offseason as a whole. Which is interesting.
Yes, trades can impact the overall outlook of the offseason, but how many trades or significance have happened since the end of the Stanley Cup Final this summer? And how many of those were “dang, the Blackhawks should have been in on that deal” trades?
What’s clear from the overall results of the survey is that fans are employing a little more patience than previously. And the number of people who voted give us a pretty good idea of the wider fan base than the loudest comments on social media might indicate.
The results of our annual Blackhawks fan survey are in. How many of you are on board with the rebuild? And how many of you won't be able to watch anyway? t.co/sU7DSuk2MA
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