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Blackhawks 2021 season preview: Top six forwards

With the first game of the 2021 NHL season tomorrow, it’s time to start examining the players who’ll be taking the ice for the Blackhawks this season. Up next, it’s the top six.

Before training camp even opened, the Blackhawks lost their top two centers, as Kirby Dach went down with a wrist injury during the World Juniors and could miss the whole season while Jonathan Toews remains out indefinitely.

That leaves the Blackhawks in a precarious situation: Dylan Strome, who was likely to transition to wing this season and Carl Soderberg, signed on Dec.