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Optimistic Blackhawks open season Saturday in L.A.

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Patrick Kane and the rest of the Blackhawks will drop the puck on a shortened 48-game, 99-day season on Saturday.

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It might be pie-in-the-sky thinking, but to a man the Blackhawks believe they have the pieces necessary to win their second Stanley Cup in four years. "I'm sure a lot of teams are thinking the same thing, but we have to have that belief in this locker room, and I think we do," captain Jonathan Toews said.