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NHL fans were furious after the Blackhawks won the NHL Draft Lottery (and Connor Bedard)

This feels all kinds of wrong

USA Today Sports Media Group

2023 NHL Draft Order: Where each team will pick in the first round

The lottery balls have spoken and the Blackhawks will draft No. 1 overall.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Blackhawks first in line for Connor Bedard after winning No. 1 pick in NHL Draft lottery

The Hawks cashed in on an 11.5% chance to receive the top pick during the lottery Monday. Bedard, the most anticipated prospect in years, will almost certainly be a Hawk come June 28, when the draft takes place.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Blackhawks’ captaincy conundrum: Seth Jones, Connor Murphy or no one?

Jonathan Toews’ exit opens the Hawks’ captain position for the first time in 15 years. Jones and Murphy are respectable candidates, but it’s also possible the Hawks leave the position vacant — as many other teams are doing.

Chicago Sun-Times

Andreas Athanasiou’s late-season surge with Blackhawks sets him up nicely for free agency

Athanasiou finished the season on a tear after moving to center. He will get a bigger contract as a pending UFA again this summer — and that raise could come with the Hawks, who will need to spend money.

Chicago Sun-Times

Blackhawks TV voice Chris Vosters returns to his baseball roots to call Cubs-Marlins

Vosters will call the game Sunday for Peacock, NBC’s streaming service, with Cubs analyst Ryan Sweeney and Marlins analyst Tommy Hutton.

Chicago Sun-Times

Blackhawks’ strong attendance surprised everyone — but not their projection model

Hawks executives were skeptical the model’s optimistic forecast for ticket sales this season would prove accurate, but it did. The team averaged 17,167 tickets sold, assuaging fears that attendance would drop precipitously during the rebuild.

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Gene Collier: Hey, where's that Penguins first-round exit you promised?

Depending on your relative life balance, which is determined by your index of blessings on one side and your various malfunctions on the other, 17 years can be a very long time. I have it on some authority.

Tribune News Service

Blackhawks could pick anywhere from first to fifth in NHL draft after 30th-place finish

The Blue Jackets’ loss Friday against the Sabres locked the Hawks into third-to-last in the final standings. They receive 11.5% odds of winning the first pick (and Connor Bedard) but also a chance of falling to fifth.

Chicago Sun-Times

Jonathan Toews scores in his final game with Blackhawks: ‘I really felt almost unworthy of a moment like that’

CHICAGO — It was no ordinary warmup for Jonathan Toews.

Chicago Tribune

Chicago has a crowded house of sports icons. Jonathan Toews deserves a place of his own.

As great as the Blackhawks star was with a stick in his hands, the hockey part doesn’t capture everything about him.

Chicago Sun-Times

Jonathan Toews ready to see ‘where life takes’ him as he moves on from Blackhawks

Even before his conversation with Kyle Davidson, Toews felt in his heart that the time had come to move on, he admitted after his sendoff Thursday night. But what he’s moving on to remains undetermined.

Chicago Sun-Times

Jonathan Toews scores in sendoff, but Blackhawks lose to Flyers in overtime

Toews nearly scored on an overtime breakaway, too, but his attempt trickled wide and the Flyers grabbed a 5-4 victory moments later. The Hawks finished the season 26-49-7; their draft lottery positioning remains up in the air pending other results.

Chicago Sun-Times

Blackhawks Star Player Had a Rather Poetic Ending to Legendary Career in Chicago

The three-time Stanley Cup winner has spent all 15 of his NHL seasons in Chicago.

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Jonathan Toews’ departure completes slow disintegration of Blackhawks’ golden era

The Hawks won’t re-sign Toews this summer, meaning the last holdover from their mid-2010s Stanley Cup generation is now gone. The biggest disappointment might be how fruitless the second chapter of his tenure proved to be.

Chicago Tribune

Blackhawks won’t re-sign longtime captain Jonathan Toews. What’s next? ‘A little easier to sort when it’s all over.’

CHICAGO — Whether Jonathan Toews chooses to retire remains unknown heading into the Blackhawks’ season finale, but one thing is settled: He won’t play again in Chicago.

The Independent UK

Blackhawks announce Toews will not be back next season

Chicago Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews will not return to the team next year, ending a wildly successful run that included three Stanley Cup championships in 15 seasons

Chicago Sun-Times

Blackhawks won’t re-sign Jonathan Toews as GM Kyle Davidson ‘clears the deck’ for next core

The Hawks-Flyers game Thursday will officially mark Toews’ final appearance with the team. Davidson said he wants the Hawks’ incoming young stars to be able to grow into leaders themselves without deferring to someone else.

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Ron Cook: Penguins have no one to blame but themselves for sinking season

PITTSBURGH — There is only one way to describe the Penguins' 5-2 loss to the Chicago Blackhawks Tuesday night at PPG Paints Arena:

Chicago Sun-Times

As Blackhawks near finale, all eyes rest on Jonathan Toews — and draft odds

It’s unclear how much fanfare Toews will allow the Hawks to direct his way before, during and after Thursday’s game against the Flyers — his expected last appearance in a Hawks sweater. He has never been the type to love the spotlight.

Chicago Sun-Times

Petr Mrazek carries Blackhawks to shocking win over Penguins

The Hawks’ 5-2 victory Tuesday dealt a massive blow to both their own draft lottery objectives — they jumped from 32nd to 30th in the NHL standings — and the Penguins’ playoff hopes. Only the Hawks’ own players and coaches appreciated the result.

USA Today Sports Media Group

The Penguins and Blackhawks reached new levels of self-sabotage at the worst possible time

Neither team got the result they wanted on Tuesday night.

Tribune News Service

With playoff fate in their own hands, Penguins falter vs. Blackhawks

PITTSBURGH — All season, the Penguins have shooed away prosperity like a pesky house fly.

Chicago Sun-Times

Blackhawks give Jarred Tinordi contract extension, rewarding him for workmanlike season

Tinordi carved out a steady niche on the Hawks this season after a decade of bouncing around the NHL and AHL. The veteran defenseman will return next season on a new one-year deal with a $1.25 million salary-cap hit.

Chicago Sun-Times

Blackhawks collapse late in loss to Wild, remain tied for last place

The Hawks conceded three goals in the final six minutes Monday en route to a 4-2 defeat, their 11th in their last 12 games — despite outshooting the Wild 42-22 and dominating the first two periods.

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