Jonathan Toews is a legitimately great hockey player. He’s a talented offensive weapon, a diligent defensive presence and the captain and first-line centre of the strongest team in the NHL over the last half-decade or so.
He’s also inconsistent, at least by certain definitions. He's currently in the middle of something of a cold streak, and that's happened repeatedly over the years.
Toews has just a single goal and two points over his past nine contests. That goal came against the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday, bringing an end to Toews’ third five-or-more-game goalless drought in 2015-16. This season isn’t the first time that Toews’ offence has been hit-and-miss. He’s had long runs in each of the last three seasons where scoring was decidedly difficult.
In 2012-13, that long stretch was in the postseason; he played his first playoff game on April 30, scored his first goal on May 25 and his second goal on June 13. Chicago beat the Wild in the first round and the Kings in the third round without the benefit of a Toews goal; it got by Detroit in a seven-game second-round series with ...
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Do Jonathan Toews’ Struggles with Consistency Make Him Overrated?
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