3 reasons it is hard to be patient with the Chicago Blackhawks' rebuild

The standards were supposed to be raised this season for the Chicago Blackhawks.

Instead, the Hawks continue to look like the same bottom-of-the-standings team we have seen the past three seasons.

It would be nice to see some movement up the standings at this point in the rebuild. Instead, the Hawks are at the top of the Tankathon.com/NHL standings, much like they were for most of the 2022-23 season.

The free-agent additions of Tyler Bertuzzi, Teuvo Teravainen, and other veterans were supposed to at least move the Blackhawks away from leading the NHL Draft Lottery odds. Instead, this need to score perfect goals and not putting together a full 60 minutes of well-executed hockey has the Hawks off to another terrible start.

Being a dead-last team is one of three reasons it is getting hard to be patient with the team's rebuild.

You would like to see the free-agent moves made in the offseason move the Blackhawks out of the standing's cellar. The team was a long shot to make the playoffs, but you would like to see them at this point of the rebuild to stop leading Tankathon.

At some point, it would be nice to see a few more victories than last season to see some verified, measurable progress.

Instead, the only progress made is the Blackhawks are losing games by a closer margin. However, it is still early in the season. The Hawks have shown if they just fire the puck at the net more than try to score one-timers, they can find a path to victory.

Plus, a lot of the players that will be part of the next competitive Hawks' team are either at Rockford, college, or in the juniors. This year's top pick for the Blackhawks, Artyom Levshunov, just started playing for the IceHogs after missing time with a foot injury.

Frank Nazar is tearing up the AHL to start the season. He is making a case to get back to Chicago as soon as possible.

So, while it is hard to watch the Hawks start another season at the bottom of the NHL standings, the patience being given to the young talent's development is another reason the Hawks are still at the bottom of the standings.

It would be nice to see Nazar get his lessons at the NHL, especially given his offensive production and the team's struggles with the second-line center. Then again, we saw Kevin Korchinski take his lumps last year and it was clear, he could have benefitted from some time in Rockford last year had he been eligible to go there.

Now that he is with the IceHogs, he is starting to understand his immense offensive gifts and refine his defensive game at the same time.