Guess this clock won’t be ticking back to zero just yet, will it?
It was July 31, 2005 when the Chicago Blackhawks drafted Niklas Hjalmarsson in the fourth round of the 2005 NHL Draft. He played 821 regular-season games, 623 of them in Chicago.
And so much of what’s been wrong gone wrong for the Blackhawks in the last 5+ years can be attributed to the drought that’s followed Hjalmarsson’s selection, which will be of legal voting age in the US next summer.
Here are the defenseman the Blackhawks have drafted since Hjalmarsson who made it into at least 50 NHL games.