At Brightside, our biggest goal is to focus on optimism in hockey and the Blackhawks. Sometimes that’s hard to do. So instead of finding pessimism and overreactions, we like to break those down, and calm ourselves by calming the public. This is the first in the series of overreactions and breakdowns. This time we focus on Jonathon Toews. Overreaction: Jonathon Toews should no longer be captain of this hockey team…

Three stars: 1. Patrick Kane 2. Duncan Keith 3. Artem Anisimov the Brightside: Kane continues to 20. Like I said. Don’t expect a premature ending. It’s fair to say right now the gritty first line experiment has failed. I’m the biggest proponent of Andrew Shaw (extend him already) but he and Tazers game don’t mesh. Hossa doesn’t belong below line 2 either. It’s time we found a consistent lineup. We…