Chicago Blackhawks: Jonathan Toews will be key against OilersVincent Pariseon June 2, 2020 at 3:00 pm

Toews will be a big key to that. He is one of the best defensive forwards the league has seen in a generation and he will be relied upon to help shut down Edmonton’s stars. Chicago’s defense is bad but the forwards helping them out might be able to help them in this series. It starts and ends with Jonathan Toews in that part of the ice.

Toews is also one of the best captains this league has ever seen. The commissioner has handed him the Stanley Cup three times and he has shown time and time again that you can’t teach what he does for his teammates. He knows how to galvanize the troops in ways that not all captains have been able to in his NHL career. He has won the Mark Messier leadership award for a reason. It just makes it that much better that he has been an elite player on top of it all.

If Toews can lead the team in the way we know he can, this could be a good series for him and his team. He, of course, will have Patrick Kane, Duncan Keith, and Corey Crawford there to help him lead and that isn’t a bad group to have with you. It is especially nice to have a group like that leading the way when the rest of the team wasn’t good enough to be higher than 23rd in the league standings. Toews is the perfect guy to lead the team in a situation like this.