SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Bryan Bickell said he felt like he was staying with the Blackhawks when he talked at the team convention back in July.
And as Blackhawks training camp begins, he is.
“There’s always rumors and thoughts but I felt comfortable from last year to be a Hawk,” Bickell said after the first day of camp finished at the University of Notre Dame. “You don’t want to leave a team like this where we’ve been through, where I’ve started in this system, as a team.”
[MORE HAWKS: Brent Seabrook, Blackhawks nearing extension]
Bickell said he tried to tune out the rumors over the summer.