from Phil Thompson of the Chicago Tribune,

The Chicago Blackhawks’ season hasn’t started, and already their rebuild needs a restart.

Captain Jonathan Toews will miss training camp and likely the start of the season because of an unspecified illness, as first reported by TSN....

Toews’ absence could be temporary, but the more devastating developments happened to forwards Kirby Dach and Alex Nylander.

Dach broke his wrist trying to check an opponent during an IIHF World Junior Championships game in Edmonton, Ontario, and will miss four to five months.

Nylander injured his left knee during this summer’s playoffs and will need four to six months to recuperate from surgery to repair a torn meniscus.

The season starts Jan. 13 at Tampa Bay and ends May 8, a little more than four months from now. So two key pieces of the Hawks reboot likely will miss what was supposed to be a critical developmental season.

Missing a player for a season always is bad, but it’s worse when you’re working within the limited window the Hawks apparently have.

Unlike the Detroit Red Wings, who aren’t looking to be truly competitive for another four or five years, the Hawks didn’t go the route of a complete teardown of the roster.

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