(Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)
The Chicago Blackhawks management made a great mistake when they let one of their superstars go. It might have cost them more years of success.
Find you someone who looks at you the way Artemi Panarin used to look at Patrick Kane when they were on the ice together for the Chicago Blackhawks. They were the best duo on the best line in the National Hockey League for two seasons. In fact, in their first year together, Artemi Panarin won the Calder Trophy as the league’s top rookie and Patrick Kane won the Hart Trophy as the MVP of the league.
It was a remarkable run for two elite players. There were plenty of people who claimed that “Panarin is only good because of Kane”. That could not have been more wrong. You can argue that he got better once he was taken away from Kane. His numbers certainly got better but that also was likely more due to more development in his game. Trading Artemi Panarin to the Columbus Blue Jackets was one of the biggest mistakes in the history of the franchise.
