Remember the good, old days when professional teams didn’t try to lose? When they came by their high draft picks as a result of poor decisions, general incompetence and disappointing players? When being bad wasn’t a strategy but a curse?
The Blackhawks recently shifted into the top gear of their rebuild, shipping talented young players out of town and gathering in a boatload of high draft picks that will one day make everything better again. That’s the plan, at least. For now, they’re hanging onto Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews, the most important Hawks of the past 40 years.
