So this is how it’s all going to end, eh?
Jonathan Toews out with long COVID? Patrick Kane on the Rangers? Brent Seabrook’s on the Lightning’s LTIR books? Duncan Keith’s cap recapture penalty on the Hawks payroll after a stint with the Oilers? A Chicago Blackhawks roster full of cast-offs and veteran journeyman playing out the stretch of a season with the goal of being as bad as possible?
This is how the best era of hockey in franchise history is going to end?
Last week’s trade of Patrick Kane brought back all those memories of Chicago’s highest points before the present-day reality sent that journey plummeting back down to Earth.