Chicago Blackhawks: Remembering Jonathan Toews’ magical 2010 run
The Chicago Blackhawks are ten years removed from that amazing 2010 Stanley Cup run. Jonathan Toews became a true elite NHL player that year.
The Chicago Blackhawks spent a lot of the 2019-20 season celebrating that great team that won the Stanley Cup in 2010. They ended a 49-year drought when Patrick Kane‘s crazy shot beat Michael Leighton of the Philadelphia Flyers to win the Stanley Cup. It was a great moment in the team’s history that will be remembered forever. Every player that was on that team was important to that run, but few were as important as Jonathan Toews.
That season was the third full season for Toews in the National Hockey League. He had already established himself as a very good NHL player by that point but his run in the playoffs that season was the beginning of his legendary legacy. In the regular season, he had 25 goals and 43 assists for 68 points in 76 games for Chicago. That marked the third year in a row that he increased his points per game numbers.
As good of a regular season as it was for the Hawk’s captain, it got even better in the playoffs. A lot of the time, a player’s greatness is largely measured by their play when it matters most. Well, Toews was so good that year in the postseason that he won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player in the playoffs.
In the year prior, he was good in the Hawks’ run to the Western Conference Finals before being defeated by the Detroit Red Wings. He had seven goals and six assists in his first 17 playoff games of his career that spring. Well, the 2010 playoffs saw him explode even more. He had seven goals and 22 assists for 29 points in 22 games en route to the Stanley Cup and Conn Smythe. That year was the first of three championship seasons for Toews and the Hawks.
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Since then, he has gone on to become one of the most well-respected players in the league. In addition to adding two more Stanley Cups in 2013 and 2015, he has won the Selke Trophy for the league’s best defensive forward, been an NHL All-Star, and the Mark Messier Leadership Award. It has been a legendary career for Jonathan Toews. He will certainly walk into the Hall of Fame when he is done and it all got started early on with this magical 2010 Cup run.