As we, at WGN Radio, prepare to welcome the Chicago Blackhawks into the “Century Club,” we are celebrating Chicago’s Original 6 hockey organization by highlighting over 100 players, coaches, executives, broadcasters and personalities that have been a part of Blackhawks’ 100-year history. Every weekday leading up to and through the 2025-26 season, you will hear about a different all-time Blackhawks figure in both the morning and afternoon WGN Radio sports reports, and here on WGNRadio.com. Several eras of Chicago hockey will be represented in our profiles, voiced by Dave Eanet, Andy Masur, Charlie Roumeliotis, Kevin Powell and Jack Heinrich.

We previously covered “The Disappearing Cup”. Next up:

by Dave Eanet

On a team full of stars, Patrick Kane was among the brightest. The first player taken in the 2007 Draft, he burst onto the scene with a team-leading 72 points, and won the Calder Trophy as Rookie of the Year. A year later, he helped lead the Blackhawks back to the playoffs for the first time in seven years. Kane would play 16 seasons for the Blackhawks, scoring 446 goals, third in team history behind only Bobby Hull and Stan Mikita, and his overtime goal in Game 6 in 2010 gave the Blackhawks their first Stanley Cup since 1961.

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