(Author’s note: This will be the first of our weekly series highlighting a Chicago Blackhawks player from seasons’ past. Up first is 1997 Calder Trophy winner and 2003 Masterton Trophy winner Bryan Berard, who spent a year in Chicago following one of the most frightening injuries in NHL history.)
Bryan Berard’s stint in Chicago was brief: he played just 58 games with the team during the 2003-04 NHL season, his lone campaign with the Blackhawks. But simply being on an NHL roster at any point after March 11, 2000 was a small miracle for Berard, whose career was forever altered in an on-ice incident involving he and Ottawa Senators youngster Marian Hossa (yes, that Marian Hossa).