Blackhawks defenseman Brent Seabrook breaks down each Stanley Cup-winning team

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On the latest episode of the Blackhawks Talk podcast, Brent Seabrook details the difference between the 2010, 2013 and 2015 Stanley Cup championship Blackhawks teams on a jam-packed episode that also features Troy Brouwer, Andrew Laad, Dave Bolland and Kris Versteeg joining Eddie Olczyk and Pat Boyle for a 2010 team reunion.

Seabrook was asked which of the three championship teams was the best. He wouldn't bite, but he did provide great insight into each special squad.

“I think that [2010] team was a special team. We were so young, we were raw. We lost to Detroit in the conference finals, I think we learned a lot from that,” Seabrook said. “We also were sort of up against the fence, we knew a lot of guys might be leaving, so it was sort of our last chance and we might not get another one.”

Then the veteran blueliner gave his thoughts on the 2013 team. 

“We won the Presidents Trophy. We knew how to win, we’d been there before. We were excited, we had some new young guys,” Seabrook said. “We had some older guys, [Michal] Handzus, Jamal Mayers, some guys who had been around, so we wanted to do it for them and we wanted to do it for ourselves.

“We had a good team, we had a tough stretch against Detroit. We really learned a lot about ourselves in that series, being able to fight back and come back and win that and get to the top of the mountain and win again.”

Lastly, Seabrook detailed the 2015 team, the most recent of the Hawks groups to hoist Lord Stanley's Cup. 

“That whole playoffs, I think we were just a resilient, scrappy team," he said. "I think losing Kaner for the second half of the season or the last 20 games was tough. We were able to find a way to claw and scratch and get him to play more games which were big for us and when he came back, he was a special player as he always has been and we just sort of went, we just started rolling.

“We had guys step up in big moments throughout the playoffs. [Antoine] Vermette I think, what did he have, two or three game winners in the Finals or something like that? And some big overtime goals from a lot of different guys. We just sort of felt like we had that belief. We were never out of a game, we were never going to lose.”

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