Patience has been paramount over the past five seasons for Chicago Blackhawks fans. And, with their 2025 first-round pick from this past June, Anton Frondell, they learned early that they'll need to exercise just a little more patience.
Before heading into the Hawks system, Frondell will spend one more year in Sweden with Djurgardens, who moved up a rung to the SHL for 2025-26. It was the right move on Frondell's part, especially with the Hawks taking the long, and right, route this season.
Plus, with talent like the newly-extended Frank Nazar and 2024 second-overall pick Artyom Levshunov all but certainly playing full-time in Chicago this season, Frondell heading back Sweden to keep refining his game allows the Blackhawks to keep spoon-feeding youngsters into the big club.