Plenty of blame to go around in Chicago these days, and just about everyone deserves at least some of it.

Start with the guys actually playing the game: Pretty much every player on the team has been an abject disappointment after a summer of, ahem, beefing up the roster. Seth Jones and Jake McCabe were supposed to tighten up a leaky defence. Tyler Johnson, Jujhar Khaira, and Henrik Borgström were supposed to add some oomph and flexibility to the bottom half of the roster. Jonathan Toews, in his grand return after a missed season, was supposed to stabilize the top half. Marc-André Fleury was supposed to bring more reliability to the crease.

Instead, to a man, all have been absolute duds.

Jones has been on the ice for one Chicago goal at 5-on-5, but 10 opposition goals. McCabe’s underlying numb