Chicago Blackhawks: Jonathan Toews will be key against Oilers
The Chicago Blackhawks have a special captain in Jonathan Toews and he will be one of the key pieces in their series with the Edmonton Oilers.
Recent events have made us miss the leadership of Jonathan Toews on the ice. Well, he has recently shown that he is a leader off the ice just as much as he is on the ice and in the locker room. To bring it back to sports, that might help the Chicago Blackhawks in their play-in series against the Edmonton Oilers. This series will be a short one but proper leadership might be able to help propel them to get what they need out of the right people.
The Oilers have Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl at the top of their forward group and they were the league’s top two scorers in 2019-20. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins is a great player as well so those three are the ones to be the most worried about, especially the former two. If the Blackhawks shut them down, winning the series is a real possibility.
Toews will be a big key to that. He is one of the best defensive forwards the league has seen in a generation and he will be relied upon to help shut down Edmonton’s stars. Chicago’s defense is bad but the forwards helping them out might be able to help them in this series. It starts and ends with Jonathan Toews in that part of the ice.
Toews is also one of the best captains this league has ever seen. The commissioner has handed him the Stanley Cup three times and he has shown time and time again that you can’t teach what he does for his teammates. He knows how to galvanize the troops in ways that not all captains have been able to in his NHL career. He has won the Mark Messier leadership award for a reason. It just makes it that much better that he has been an elite player on top of it all.
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If Toews can lead the team in the way we know he can, this could be a good series for him and his team. He, of course, will have Patrick Kane, Duncan Keith, and Corey Crawford there to help him lead and that isn’t a bad group to have with you. It is especially nice to have a group like that leading the way when the rest of the team wasn’t good enough to be higher than 23rd in the league standings. Toews is the perfect guy to lead the team in a situation like this.