In 2010, the Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup in rather dominant fashion. In 2012-13, the team won its second Stanley Cup in four seasons. However the team will not be the first to repeat since 1997-98, when the Detroit Red Wings achieved the feat. Here are the highs and lows of the Chicago Blackhawks' 2013-14 season.

Highs

The team was dominant throughout the regular season and posted its best record during November when it won 12, lost two games in regulation and dropped one overtime/shootout game. The team managed an eight-game point streak at the end of October.

Patrick Sharp had the best offensive season of his career with 78 points to lead Chicago; he scored 34 goals, the second best tally of his career. His production tailed off a bit during the playoffs as he put up 10 points in 19 games.

Patrick Kane put up 69 points in 69 games this year, including 29 goals; this was the second-best goal tally of his career. But when it counted it most, he was dominant with eight goals and 20 points in the postseason; he led Chicago in that category.

Captain Jonathan Toews continued to show why he is among the best players in the game with 68 points on the year and another 17 in the postseason. Captain Clutch put up five game-winning goals in the regular season and then scored four during the entire playoffs.

Duncan Keith also put up 61 points, his second best point total since the 2009-10 season when he was the Norris Trophy winner and Stanley Cup champ with the Blackhawks.

Not to be overlooked is the fact that the Blackhawks managed to make a tremendous comeback in the Western Conference Finals. Despite trailing 3-1 in the series against a dominant Kings team, Chicago fought back and forced Game 7.

Lows

Chicago's worst run of the season came at the very end when it lost four of five to close out March and then the final two games of the season; the result was a date with the St. Louis Blues in the first round instead of the Minnesota Wild. Chicago eventually defeated the Wild in the second round, which essentially expresses how irrelevant that "poor" run ultimately was in the bigger picture of the season.

There were not many things to gripe about really with Chicago. They owned the top offense in the league and the fourth best home record. The road record was in the top third, and the goals against was middle of the pack.

Team MVP

When all of your top players deliver the way they are supposed to, it is hard to make a pick. Jonathan Toews is the captain and arguably the face of the franchise. He has to endure a tremendous of responsibility offensively and defensively, and he always carries it well. There is almost no fault in his game, and he had a tremendous year both in the regular season and the postseason.

Elimination Scapegoat

Who do you pin elimination on after playing a terrific seven-game series with one of the best teams in the league? Corey Crawford was solid in goal for Chicago, but he ultimately faltered when it mattered most. Throughout the regular season, he conceded 128 goals in 59 regular season games with a .917 save percentage.

In the first 12 playoff games of the playoffs, he only allowed 26 goals and had a .931 save percentage. In that span he had one shutout and only conceded three or more goals in five of those games. After a terrific start in the Western Conference Finals (in which he stopped 25 of 26 shots), Crawford turned into a woeful goalie and stopped just 162 of 187 shots, a terrible .866 save percentage. He conceded four or more goals five of the seven games and conceded three or more goals in every single one of those games. And the worst part of the situation was that the goals conceded were of the painful variety. Two of the goals he conceded in the decisive Game 7 loss were off juicy rebounds. Speaking of Game 7, Crawford was gifted a 2-0 lead, a 3-2 advantage and a 4-3 lead; he blew every single one of them.

Crawford has never been considered an elite goalie, but he has been a solid and often great one. His performance in this series was far from any of those characteristics. Some might claim that goaltending was woeful throughout this series on both ends, but one man wound up in the finals, while the other gave up goals at the wrong times.