What We Learned: More turmoil for Chicago's rebuild

Let's start where we need to start here: Kyle Davidson was absolutely and incontrovertibly right to try to dramatically rebuild Chicago's roster.

At that point, the organization had already moved on from Duncan Keith, had already seen Cup-winning heroes Marian Hossa, Brent Seabrook, and Corey Crawford retire. Jonathan Toews was already apparently dealing with the illness that seems to have ended his career. Patrick Kane was still a very productive player but also 33 and coming up on needing a new contract.

His predecessor had already made the Seth Jones trade, but the team hadn't made a real playoff in four years (the COVID bubble doesn't count) and was on its way to missing a fifth; they ended that year with a whopping 68 points. More crucially, the team had largely whiffed on five straight