Blackhawks' players now understand how rebuilds work, but they're growing impatient

After a Blackhawks practice in April 2022, shortly after Kyle Davidson took over as general manager and announced a full-scale rebuild, Alex DeBrincat made a comment that revealed just how little he understood that concept. Of course, DeBrincat was long gone by the time 2022-23 began, having been shipped off as part of the tear-down stage of Davidson's rebuild. Two years later — after the franchise's two worst seasons since the 1950s — Hawks players possess a much more vivid and accurate understanding of what a full-scale rebuild entails. If anyone else besides DeBrincat was initially wearing rose-tinted glasses, those glasses have been smashed to bits by now.