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Bridget Casey sits in the driveway of her severely damaged home on the 7800 block of Woodridge Dr. In Woodridge with son Nate, 16, and daughter Marion, 14, at approximately 2:30 am Monday morning. | Rich Hein/Sun-Times
The tornado appeared to start in Naperville, then cut a destructive path through Woodridge, Darien and Downers Grove.
A tornado ripped through the western suburbs late Sunday night, damaging more than a hundred homes and injuring several people, including a woman in critical condition.
The tornado touchdown was confirmed about 11:10 p.m. near Route 53 and 75th Street in Woodridge, the National Weather Service said. It also hit portions of Naperville, Downers Grove and Darien, smashing cars, ripping roofs off homes, downing power lines, shearing off garage doors, uprooting large trees and spewing debris in the streets.
Naperville reported that at least five people were taken to Edwards Hospital, one of them in critical condition. At least 130 homes were damaged, 10 of them considered uninhabitable.
Emergency crews continued going door to door checking on residents into the early morning. As the sun rose, more and more people came out of their homes, some walking their pets as they surveyed the damage, many taking photos and videos in disbelief.
“Unbelievable,” a woman said while staring at a home missing its roof and a wall.
Generators hummed, and a tractor began clearing streets and pushing away fallen trees in Woodridge. “We have no power at all,” Woodridge Mayor Gina Cunningham said. “I’m sitting in the dark waiting to hear back about what’s going on and gathering reports.”
Many people said they were already in bed when the sirens went off. Some recalled the moment of silence before the rain and wind picked up fiercely.
One neighbor called it the “craziest 45 seconds of my life.” Several others said it sounded like a train was passing over their homes and they could feel the vibrations. “As fast as it came, it was gone,” Joseph Palacios said.
Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-TimesA fierce tornado ripped the roofs off homes in the western suburbs late Sunday night, including this one in Woodridge.
“This doesn’t happen around here,” Palacios said. “This is something totally new and it’ll probably never happen again… It’s shocking to see the devastation, all the trees are just gone, people’s houses — you don’t see this here.”
Palacios comforted his wife as she wiped tears from her eyes. “It’s hard seeing it in the daylight,” he said. “It definitely is because it’s home. It’s quiet, it’s peaceful here… Just to see it torn up, it’s obviously never going to look the same ever again.’
Nate Casey, 16, strummed his guitar as he sat in a lawn chair with his mother, Bridget Casey, in their driveway around 4 a.m. The entire second floor of their house was gone, and their garage was partially destroyed.
The home is in the 7800 block of Woodridge Drive, believed to be one of the areas hit hardest by the storm.
Nate said he was watching TV when the storm rolled through. “I just heard a loud crash and I’m thinking, ‘Oh, what are my brothers up to?’ I go look and I see the sky, and then I hear my brothers screaming from the room.”
Nate, a student at Downers Grove South, helped his mother get his three younger siblings to the basement. He grabbed some of his camping equipment and scout gear just to be safe before going down himself.
“I just can’t believe it happened, you know? It’s not something that you see too often or at all, and it’s just scary that everything just comes crashing in,” Nate said. “Something that I was happy to see, that was not broken, was my dad’s ashes, but there’s really nothing else. It’s all material, I’m still worried about the bearded dragon that’s stuck up there but we’re going to get him in the morning.”
He said he was waiting for the streets to be cleared so his aunt could get them.
“It’s been long,” Bridget Casey said as she pulled a quilt tighter around her shoulders. “Just trying to make sure that we can get everything taken care of, we have all the important stuff and waiting for the roads to be cleared enough so my sisters can come.”
Bridget Casey said she plans to live with her sister while their house gets repaired, though she doesn’t know how long that will take.
“I was just happy that everybody was OK,” she said.
A person who lives behind Casey, brought her some personal items, including pictures and her children’s birth certificates, that he found in his backyard. ”That means the world to me,” she said. “They didn’t have to do that.”
Down the street, Donna Suchecki joined a few of her neighbors in a driveway. They sipped wine and moonshine out of blue plastic cups and talked about the damage.
“It’s overwhelming, I think we’re … all of us are like, ‘Oh my God, this really happened.’ It’s kind of a dream, you see it on TV, you see shows, you see stuff like that on tornados and … then you come out here and you see the cops, you see the fire trucks and stuff and you’re just like, ‘Wow.’ … We got lucky, it could’ve been something really seriously,” Suchecki said.
Heaps of trees covered Suchecki’s front lawn, but “luckily nothing hit” the house, she said. Her fence was smashed under a tree, though she said it needed to be replaced anyway.
“When I see this in the morning tomorrow, we’ll deal with it when we have to,” Suchecki, 45, said.
Across the street, two cars sat untouched on a slab of cement where the garage once was. Suchecki said it was uprooted and tossed into the backyard, where it hit a power line, leaving the block without power.
Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-TimesA tornado ripped off the side of a house late Sunday night in Naperville.
“It could be worse,” said Suchecki. “It’s crazy to go through this, that’s a traumatic event.”
In Naperville, officials said they were still assessing the damage and checking on residents.
“Our first priority was making sure that the families were OK, but now we are moving on to handling the damage,” said Linda LaCloche, Naperville communications director.
”We have power outages in the area and have electrical teams checking on that. We also had some gas leaks reported, so Nicor Gas is going door to door to shut off all the gas lines.”
Crystal Porter was on her way home from her mother’s home in Joliet when she got a tornado warning alert. She said it took her five attempts to find a way to her home in the 2700 block of Everglade Avenue.
Ultimately, the retired military veteran had to move a tree to do so. After checking her dogs, Porter walked around the streets to assess the damage.
“I couldn’t believe it. I’ve lived here for 27 years and I’ve never seen trees come down here like this. Ever,” Porter said.
Porter noticed firefighters doing a search and rescue at a partially destroyed home and removing a cage filled with doves. With the owners not home, Porter grabbed a dog crate from her garage and rescued the birds.
“At least they’re not left out in the street,” she said.
This is a developing story, check back for details.
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At least five people were killed and 47 others wounded in shootings across Chicago over the weekend.
In the most recent fatal attack, a man was shot dead while driving in Humboldt Park early Sunday.
The 21-year-old was driving a Jeep about 1:40 a.m. in the 3100 block of West Augusta Boulevard when a car pulled up next to him and someone inside fired shots, Chicago police said.
The man was shot in the head, police said. A passenger in the Jeep drove him to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Less than an hour earlier, a woman was fatally shot in Bucktown on the Northwest Side.
She was riding in a vehicle about 1 a.m. in the 2100 block of North Oakley Avenue when another vehicle drove up alongside and someone inside opened fire, striking the woman, police said. The 32-year-old was dropped off at Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.
A man was killed and a woman was critically wounded in a shooting June 19, 2021, in Humboldt Park. Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times
Humboldt Park saw another fatal shooting Saturday night.
About 9:15 p.m., a man and a woman were ambushed in the 3200 block of West Division Street by three gunmen who fired shots at them, police said. The man, 24, was rushed to Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. The 25-year-old woman was struck in the neck and rushed to Stroger Hospital in critical condition.
Friday night, a woman was killed and two other people injured, including a 15-year-old boy, in a shooting in Back of the Yards.
The group was standing on the sidewalk about 7:30 p.m. in the 5400 block of South Bishop Street when a male shot them from an unknown distance, Chicago police said.
The woman, 28, was shot in the head and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where she was pronounced, police said.
The teen boy was struck in the leg and taken to the same hospital in good condition, police said. The man, 31, suffered a gunshot wound to the shoulder and was treated and released on scene.
Also Friday, a 31-year-old man was killed in a drive-by shooting in Parkway Gardens on the South Side.
About 5:20 p.m, the man was on the sidewalk near 64th Street and King Drive when a light-colored vehicle pulled up and someone inside began firing shots at him, police said.
He suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center where he was pronounced dead, police said.
In nonfatal shootings, three men were shot Friday in the East Side neighborhood.
The shooting happened in the 10000 block of South Indianapolis Avenue just after 8 p.m., according to police. The men were traveling eastbound on Indianapolis when they heard several shots.
An 18-year-old man was shot in the buttocks and another man, 21, suffered a gunshot wound to the right arm, police said. Both men were transported to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where their conditions were stabilized.
A third man, 22, was struck in the leg and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where his condition was also stabilized, police said.
At least 40 others were wounded in citywide shootings between 5 p.m. Friday and 5 a.m. Monday.
A tornado ripped through the western suburbs late Sunday night, severely damaging homes and knocking out power. At least one person was listed in critical condition.
The tornado touchdown was confirmed about 11:10 p.m. near Route 53 and 75th Street in Woodridge, the National Weather Service said. It also hit portions of Naperville, Downers Grove and Darien, smashing cars, ripping roofs off homes, downing power lines, shearing off garage doors, uprooting large trees and spewing debris in the streets.
Naperville reported that at least five people were taken to Edwards Hospital, and one of them — a woman — was in critical condition. At least 130 homes were damaged, 10 of them considered uninhabitable.
Emergency crews continued going door to door checking on residents into the early morning. As the sun rose, more and more people came out of their homes, some walking their pets as they surveyed the damage, many taking photos and videos in disbelief.
“Unbelievable,” a woman said while staring at a home missing its roof and a wall.
Generators hummed, and a tractor began clearing streets and pushing away fallen trees in Woodridge. “We have no power at all,” Woodridge Mayor Gina Cunningham said. “I’m sitting in the dark waiting to hear back about what’s going on and gathering reports.”
A fierce tornado ripped the roofs off homes in the western suburbs late Sunday night, including this one in Woodridge.Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times
Nate Casey, 16, strummed his guitar as he sat in a lawn chair with his mother, Bridget Casey, in their driveway around 4 a.m. The entire second floor of their house was gone, and their garage was partially destroyed.
The home is in the 7800 block of Woodridge Drive, believed to be one of the areas hit hardest by the storm.
Nate said he was watching TV when the storm rolled through. “I just heard a loud crash and I’m thinking, ‘Oh, what are my brothers up to?’ I go look and I see the sky, and then I hear my brothers screaming from the room.”
Nate, a student at Downers Grove South, helped his mother get his three younger siblings to the basement. He grabbed some of his camping equipment and scout gear just to be safe before going down himself.
“I just can’t believe it happened, you know? It’s not something that you see too often or at all, and it’s just scary that everything just comes crashing in,” Nate said. “Something that I was happy to see, that was not broken, was my dad’s ashes, but there’s really nothing else. It’s all material, I’m still worried about the bearded dragon that’s stuck up there but we’re going to get him in the morning.”
He said he was waiting for the streets to be cleared so his aunt could get them.
“It’s been long,” Bridget Casey said as she pulled a quilt tighter around her shoulders. “Just trying to make sure that we can get everything taken care of, we have all the important stuff and waiting for the roads to be cleared enough so my sisters can come.”
Bridget Casey said she plans to live with her sister while their house gets repaired, though she doesn’t know how long that will take.
“I was just happy that everybody was OK,” she said.
Down the street was Donna Suchecki, who gathered in a driveway with a few of her neighbors. They sipped wine and moonshine out of blue plastic cups and talked about the damage.
“It’s overwhelming, I think we’re … all of us are like, ‘Oh my God, this really happened.’ It’s kind of a dream, you see it on TV, you see shows, you see stuff like that on tornados and … then you come out here and you see the cops, you see the fire trucks and stuff and you’re just like, ‘Wow.’ … We got lucky, it could’ve been something really seriously,” Suchecki said.
Heaps of trees covered Suchecki’s front lawn, but “luckily nothing hit” the house, she said. Her fence was smashed under a tree, though she said it needed to be replaced anyway.
“When I see this in the morning tomorrow, we’ll deal with it when we have to,” Suchecki, 45, said.
Across the street, two cars sat untouched on a slab of cement where the garage once was. Suchecki said it was uprooted and tossed into the backyard, where it hit a power line, leaving the block without power.
“It could be worse,” said Suchecki. “It’s crazy to go through this, that’s a traumatic event.”
No serious injuries were reported in Woodridge or Darien.
In Naperville, where at least 12 homes were damaged, four people were transported with noncritical injuries to Edward Hospital. Six to 10 others were transported with minor injuries.
“Our first priority was making sure that the families were OK, but now we are moving on to handling the damage,” said Linda LaCloche, Naperville communications director.
“We have power outages in the area and have electrical teams checking on that. We also had some gas leaks reported, so Nicor Gas is going door to door to shut off all the gas lines.”
Crystal Porter was on her way home from her mother’s home in Joliet when she got a tornado warning alert. She said it took her five attempts to find a way to her home in the 2700 block of Everglade Avenue.
Ultimately, the retired military veteran had to move a tree to do so. After checking her dogs, Porter walked around the streets to assess the damage.
“I couldn’t believe it. I’ve lived here for 27 years and I’ve never seen trees come down here like this. Ever,” Porter said.
Porter noticed firefighters doing a search and rescue at a partially destroyed home and removing a cage filled with doves. With the owners not home, Porter grabbed a dog crate from her garage and rescued the birds.
“At least they’re not left out in the street,” she said.
This is a developing story, check back for details.
A tornado ripped off the side of a house late Sunday night in Naperville. Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times
Tornado damage at the corner of Woodridge Dr. And Jonquil Ln. in Woodridge early Monday morning.
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Tornado damage at the corner of Woodridge Dr. And Jonquil Ln. in Woodridge early Monday morning.
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Bridget Casey sits in the driveway of her severely damaged home on the 7800 block of Woodridge Dr. In Woodridge with son Nate, 16, and daughter Marion, 14 at approximately 2:30 am Monday morning.
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Tornado damage near Janes Ave. south of 75th St. in Woodridge early Monday morning.
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Bridget Casey sits in the driveway of her severely damaged home on the 7800 block of Woodridge Dr. In Woodridge with son Nate, 16, and daughter Marion, 14 at approximately 2:30 am Monday morning.
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Tornado damage off Janes Ave. in Woodridge early Monday morning.
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Tornado damage on Chestnut Ave. in Woodridge early Monday morning.
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Tornado damage on Chestnut Ave. in Woodridge early Monday morning.
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Tornado damage on Chestnut Ave. in Woodridge early Monday morning.
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Tornado damage west of Janes Ave. in Woodridge early Monday morning.
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Tornado damage on Evergreen Ln. in Woodridge early Monday morning.
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Tornado damage on Evergreen Ln. in Woodridge early Monday morning.
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Tornado damage on Evergreen Ln. in Woodridge early Monday morning.
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Tornado damage on Janes Ave. in Woodridge early Monday morning.
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Tornado damage at Evergreen Ln. and Janes Ave. in Woodridge early Monday morning.
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Tornado damage at Evergreen Ln. and Janes Ave. in Woodridge early Monday morning.
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Tornado damage at Evergreen Ln. and Janes Ave. in Woodridge early Monday morning.
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Tornado damage at Evergreen Ln. and Janes Ave. in Woodridge early Monday morning.
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Tornado damage at Evergreen Ln. and Janes Ave. in Woodridge early Monday morning.
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Tornado damage on Chestnut Ave. in Woodridge early Monday morning.
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Tornado damage on Jonquil Ln. in Woodridge early Monday morning.
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Tornado damage at the corner of Woodridge Dr. And Jonquil Ln. in Woodridge early Monday morning.
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Tornado damage at the corner of Woodridge Dr. And Jonquil Ln. in Woodridge early Monday morning.
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Tornado damage at the corner of Woodridge Dr. And Jonquil Ln. in Woodridge early Monday morning.
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An emergency vehicle races past a damaged home on Woodward Ave, after a tornado touched down near suburban Woodridge, Monday, June 21, 2021.
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Residents walk around their neighborhood near Woodward Ave and Egerton Ct, after a tornado touched down near suburban Woodridge, Monday, June 21, 2021.
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A couple walk past a damaged home on Woodward Ave, after a tornado touched down near suburban Woodridge, Monday, June 21, 2021.
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Lisle police block Egerton Dr at Woodward Ave due to fallen trees in the road, after a tornado touched down near suburban Woodridge, Monday, June 21, 2021.
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A home with sever roof damage on Egerton Ct near Paddington Rd, after a tornado touched down near suburban Woodridge, Monday, June 21, 2021.
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A group of people walk by a road blocked by Elmhurst police at Westview Ln and Brentwood Ct, after a tornado touched down near suburban Woodridge, Monday, June 21, 2021.
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A home with a tree branch crashed through the garage and a bedroom at Estate Cir, near Ranchview Dr. after a tornado touched down near suburban Woodridge, Monday, June 21, 2021.
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Firefighters navigate around fallen trees and branches that litter Cobblebrook Ln near Ranchview Dr, after a tornado touched down near suburban Woodridge, Monday, June 21, 2021.
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Firefighters navigate around fallen trees and branches that litter Cobblebrook Ln near Ranchview Dr, after a tornado touched down near suburban Woodridge, Monday, June 21, 2021.
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Fallen trees and branches litter Cobblebrook Ln near Ranchview Dr, after a tornado touched down near suburban Woodridge, Monday, June 21, 2021.
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Fallen trees and branches litter Cobblebrook Ln near Ranchview Dr, after a tornado touched down near suburban Woodridge, Monday, June 21, 2021.
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A bird cage full of doves sits outside a destroyed home on Jonquil Lane and Woodridge Drive, after a tornado touched down near suburban Woodridge, Monday, June 21, 2021.
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A home with a damaged roof sits on Everglade Ave and Woodridge Drive, after a tornado touched down near suburban Woodridge, Monday, June 21, 2021.
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A home with a damaged roof sits on Everglade Ave and Woodridge Drive, after a tornado touched down near suburban Woodridge, Monday, June 21, 2021.
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A home with a damaged roof sits on Everglade Ave and Woodridge Drive, after a tornado touched down near suburban Woodridge, Monday, June 21, 2021.
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A destroyed home sits on Jonquil Lane and Woodridge Drive, after a tornado touched down near suburban Woodridge, Monday, June 21, 2021.
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Crystal Porter transfers Doves from a destroyed bird cage into a dog carrier, after a tornado touched down near suburban Woodridge, Monday, June 21, 2021.
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A home with a damaged roof sits on Everglade Ave, after a tornado touched down near suburban Woodridge, Monday, June 21, 2021.
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Residents of Everglade Ave pose for a photo, after a tornado touched down near suburban Woodridge, Monday, June 21, 2021.
EDMONTON, ALBERTA – AUGUST 01: Dominik Kubalik #8 of the Chicago Blackhawks is congratulated by teammates Jonathan Toews #19, Patrick Kane #88, Kirby Dach #77 and Duncan Keith #2 after Kubalik scored on a power play in the second period during Game One of the Western Conference Qualification Round prior to the 2020 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at Rogers Place on August 01, 2020 in Edmonton, Alberta. (Photo by Jeff Vinnick/Getty Images)
The Chicago Blackhawks are watching the playoffs at home again. They haven’t won a playoff series since 2015 which means they are doing a great job wasting the primes of Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews. Those two were still getting better when they won the three Stanley Cups but the team hasn’t been able to put it together once they signed their long-term deals. The current NHL playoffs should be teaching Stan Bowman a lesson about the future.
The ChicagoBlackhawks should be going to school on the 2021 NHL Semi-Final.
Both series are tied at two games apiece. It is going to be an exciting time until the very end. Each one has the feel of a grueling seven-game series to decide who makes it to the Stanley Cup Final. It is good to see some great hockey be played with four teams that believe they have what it takes to win it all.
The Montreal Canadiens, Vegas Golden Knights, New York Islanders, and Tampa Bay Lightning all have something in common. They all have defensemen that are big, fast, and great skaters. The Blackhawks really don’t much of that at all and it is a problem. Connor Murphy and Nikita Zadorov are the only somewhat younger guys of any size. Murphy, however, is often injured and Zadorov isn’t that good.
If the Hawks want to get themselves back in contention, the defense needs to be fixed. They don’t all have to be huge either but some extra ability would certainly be nice. Adam Boqvist is not what he is advertised to be, Duncan Keith is getting very old, and guys like Ian Mitchell or Nicolas Beaudin are still very young.
Stan Bowman likes to make big moves during the offseason so it will be interesting to see what he does to address this issue. It is not the only issue that they have but it is a big part of it. There is a reason that with the 2021 realigned divisions, the Blackhawks were the only team from the traditional Central Division that participated in the 2021 NHL Draft Lottery. If they don’t fix any of this, 2021-22 is going to be even worse.
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