The offseason after their two franchise icons departed, the Blackhawks won the NHL Draft Lottery and the right to draft 17-year-old wunderkind Connor Bedard. One era in Chicago ends and starts another. The dark age lasted all of 25 days.
. But it was all by design, too, part of Davidson’s grand plan to unmake and remake the Blackhawks.
“I think I just said, ‘Wow,’” he said. “You understand the impact that a first overall pick can have, and having the first overall pick in the right year. Hopefully, that’s what we’ve got here. It can change a franchise. It can change a city. And it can change an era in a team’s history. So there’s a lot of weight to that, and a lot of significance to that. When that No. 1 card flipped over and it was our logo, it hits you all at once.
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