Report: Jonathan Toews speaks the Kane issues for the first time!

There hasn't been much from the Blackhawks on this whole Patrick Kane fiasco but we now know what at least one Blackhawk thinkls.

Chicago Blackhawks' captain Jonathan Toews was on TSN 1290 and was asked the tough question on Patrick Kane. The question was:

Jonathan, I do want to ask you one question about being the captain of the Blackhawks. Obviously most people are aware of a situation that has been developing regarding one of your star teammates. Obviously I won’t ask you to comment on anything like that but when something like that happens during the offseason does your focus as far as dealing with your teammates as well as the media change going into training camp as the captain of the team?

Toews did not hesitate to answer and clearly was very supportive of his teammate and stood behind him 100%.

“I think you have confidence that things like that will resolve themselves over time. For the time being, you stay together as a team. You support your teammate … uh, teammate, teammates that are maybe going through a rough patch. You know, we saw it last year with some rumors that spread through social media about several guys in the locker room. It’s not the first time we’ve seen situations like that and eventually you deal with it internally and you stay together as a team and you’re confidence as individuals and as a group that everyone kind of stays together. At the end of the day, we always say to each other that what is said and what is done within the locker is the only thing that matters. We don’t let anything going on on the outside affect the way we do our jobs and the way we come to work together as a team. Again, I get a lot of credit because I have the ‘C’ on my sweater and I think we have a great group of guys who understand what it takes to be a leader, what it takes to be part of a good team. Clearly, it’s more than just what happens on the ice. There’s always a lot of things being said and things going on off the ice but no matter what, we do a good job of sticking together.”

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