Jonathan Toews is a legitimately great hockey player. He’s a talented offensive weapon, a diligent defensive presence and the captain and first-line centre of the strongest team in the NHL over the last half-decade or so.
He’s also inconsistent, at least by certain definitions. He's currently in the middle of something of a cold streak, and that's happened repeatedly over the years.
Toews has just a single goal and two points over his past nine contests. That goal came against the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday, bringing an end to Toews’ third five-or-more-game goalless drought in 2015-16. This season isn’t the first time that Toews’ offence has been hit-and-miss.