
ANAHEIM, Calif. — During the Blackhawks’ playoff series of yesteryear, the intensity of the situations forced captain Jonathan Toews to take things one game at a time.
Those runs are history now, but Toews has readopted that mentality — a cliché, yes, but an applicable one in this case — this season. He mentions it on a near-daily basis, and he has taken time to reflect more than he did before on what it truly entails.