This week, let’s leave the current state of affairs in the Chicago Blackhawks in the dust and head back in time. Way back: just before World War II, even, when the Hawks discovered an 18-year-old hockey player in Winnipeg who looked like he could handle the puck quite well: Bill Mosienko.
One of 14 children, Mosienko started playing hockey at the age of 10 and by the age of 20, he was a member of the Blackhawks, brought up to the parent club in 1942 to replace players who were sent to fight in World War II.