Toews Tells Winnipeg Radio Station Blackhawks Will 'Stay Together As A Team'
(CBS) Chicago Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews told a Winnipeg radio station that players will rally around any team member who's going through "a rough patch," an oblique reference to the rape allegations surrounding star Patrick Kane.
Toews talked with TSN 1290 Winnipeg during the "Hustler & Lawless" show and was asked about the mindset he adopts as captain, coming up on training camp after a crisis has occurred in the offseason. The questioner was obviously referencing rape allegations against Kane, which upstate New York police are investigating.
"You just have to have confidence that things like that will resolve themselves over time, and for the time being, you stay together as a team and you support your teammate or teammates that are maybe going through a rough patch," said Toews, a native of Winnipeg, Canada.
"We saw it last year with some rumors that spread around through social media about several guys in our locker room," Toews added. "It's not the first time we've seen situations like that. Eventually, you just deal with it internally, you stay together as a team, you're confident that as individuals and as a group everyone kind of stays together and at the end of the day we always say to each other what was said and what was done in the locker room is the only thing that really matters."
The cloud surrounding Kane has marred the offseason for the Blackhawks, who in June won their third Stanley Cup in six years.