We’ve spent this month detailing the talent working its way through the Chicago Blackhawks organization in our Top 25 Under 25 series. The Former Blackhawk of the Week series caught the prospect fever, shifting its focus to one of the team’s highest-touted prospects who was drafted in the top 10 of the 2001 NHL Entry Draft: Tuomo Ruutu.
Had Ruutu’s issues in Chicago occurred a few years earlier, the disappointment would’ve been overwhelming. But just as Ruutu started to fade in Chicago, players like Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane emerged, leaving any prior disappointments in the past.