Up to this point, Chicago Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews has ensured that his team defines its 2013 season with a fastidious appetite for hardware.
That motivational motif should not experience much of a departure—at least not for the worse—as he comes off a Selke Trophy victory going into the second game of the 2013 Stanley Cup Final.
The NHL declared Toews its top defensive forward of the season on Friday during an awards show at the United Center, where the Hawks will host Game 2 on Saturday.
With that, the Selke becomes the first new additive to his individual trophy case since he corralled the Conn Smythe as playoff MVP in 2010. For the Chicago franchise, it joins the Presidents' Trophy and Campbell Bowl in terms of awards going to the Blackhawks this season.
This comes at an unconventional time, seeing as this season’s lockout and resultant delay of the playoffs impelled the league to dole out these trophies while two teams are still competing for the Cup.
Ordinarily, this would wait until the week after the final was finished.
Come what may, there may be no individual in the Blackhawk ...
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