“It takes a toll on you in a lot of ways — mentally, physically, emotionally — all those things,” he said of the absence. “It was just a lot of things that added up, hit a wall and it was good for me to check out and try and pick the pieces back up and come back to the game with a new approach and a new appreciation for it.”
Jonathan Toews returns to the ice on Day 1 of Chicago Blackhawks training camp ‘feeling a lot better’ — and says he had COVID-19 in addition to a stress condition
