Chicago Blackhawks: Three reasons they fired John McDonough

The Chicago Blackhawks have made a significant change to their front office by firing John McDonough and these three reasons are the most notable.

The Chicago Blackhawks have had a lot of great success over the 2010s decade, but it is all starting to come to an end. One of the next big signs of that is the fact that they fired President and CEO, John McDonough on Monday. Team owner Rocky Wirtz made the announcement that he would not be returning once hockey is back. This is a move that seemed to be a long time coming yet they kept committing to him staying around.

McDonough had some success rebuilding the front office of this team when he first arrived and it led to the team building a contender. General manager Dale Tallon was very successful in bringing in players like Jonathan Toews, Duncan Keith, Brent Seabrook, Corey Crawford, and Patrick Kane via the draft. He also had some great signings like Marian Hossa to help them out.

The Blackhawks have since won multiple Stanley Cups but since the 2015 Championship, they haven’t even won a single playoff series. They have made some terrible decisions along the way that were bad at the time and proved to be even worse as time went on. A lot of that has come under the leadership of John McDonough which is something that he is now paying the price for.

We don’t know exactly how they are going to handle the front office going forward but they should make some transactions in the not so distant future. What we do know, is that there are some good reasons for this McDonough firing taking place. It had to happen and these are three good reasons why: