Everyone's getting on board over the Chicago Blackhawks taking another step in their rebuild these days, including The Athletic's Corey Pronman, who recently ranked the Hawks pipeline at No. 2. It's been a long time coming for Chicago fans, and it further drives the point home that this rebuild's about to climb another rung.
We're also seeing a pattern emerge. If you flashback to the early-to-mid 2000s, we saw a lot of bad play in the Windy City. Then came Duncan Keith, Corey Crawford, Jonathan Toews, and Patrick Kane, among others, and they turned the struggling organization into a dynasty.