Goaltender Scott Darling thanked his hometown Chicago Blackhawks in an article in the Players' Tribune on Tuesday and detailed his journey from addiction to a big contract with the Carolina Hurricanes.
Darling, 28, has spoken about his experience with alcoholism in the past, but in the article he offered more details to put his departure from Chicago in perspective.
"For the past few months, I've been trying to figure out how to say goodbye to Chicago, and I just couldn't find the words. In writing this story, I got choked up four or five different times.