Jonathan Toews is up for the 2012-13 Mark Messier NHL Leadership Award which goes "the player who exemplifies great leadership qualities to his team, on and off the ice during the regular season." Toews has been the captain of the Hawks since 2008 and he plays in all situations for the team. He volunteers at the Make-A-Wish Foundation and visits patients at the local children's hospital.

Jonathan Toews has yet to find the back of the net in the playoffs. After picking up 23 goals and 48 points in 47 regular season games, the Chicago captain has only three assists in seven playoff games. Toews struggled at the faceoff dot, winning only nine of 22 after entering the game with 73 wins on the draw against only 49 losses. Toews is going to need to pick up his game Monday for Game 3 in Detroit or the Blackhawks could find themselves in trouble.

Jonathan Toews took a jab at the refereeing after Saturday's 4-1 loss to Detroit. "There's a lot of clutch and grab, lot of interference, and if they're going to let that go, that's something we need to know," Toews said. "It's just tough to understand sometimes why we get roughing and hooking penalties, [and] that doesn't go both ways. If that's the way they're going to play, we need to play the same way." Toews added that he anticipates Game 3 in Detroit will be even more difficult for Chicago than Saturday's defeat.

Jonathan Toews is a nominee for the Selke Trophy. Toews tied for the league-lead with 56 takeaways and ranked third in the NHL with a plus-28 rating. He also ranked second with a 59.9 faceoff percentage. Toews will face stiff competition from Pavel Datsyuk and Patrice Bergeron as he goes for his first Selke Trophy.

Blackhawks center Jonathan Toews understands why he wasn't a finalist for the Hart Trophy despite enjoying a great season. Toews acknowledges that Alex Ovechkin, Sidney Crosby and John Tavares are all worthy candidates for the award and even went as far as to say teammate Patrick Kane would also have been a good choice. "There's another guy across the room that deserves it just as much, probably more," Toews said. "To have two guys in the talks like that, it always shows that you have a great supporting cast. It's nice. It's an honor. But you don't get to that point if your team doesn't have success the way we did this year. So huge credit to those guys."

Jonathan Toews ended his scoring slump on Thursday. Toews had no points in the first four games of Chicago's first-round series against Minnesota. However, Toews managed to pick up two assists on Thursday. That might give him a little extra confidence going into the next round. Chicago did just find without Toews being an offensive leader in this series, but there will come a point where they'll be looking to him to score or set up the big goal.

Jonathan Toews has been struggling offensively in the first three games of the opening round series against the Wild. Toews has only one assist as he garnered it on the power play in Game 1. The whole line of Toews, Marian Hossa and Brandon Saad has struggled with Hossa scoring on the power play while Saad is pointless. "We have to shoot the puck more, it comes down to that," Toews said. "We're not getting pucks to the net and we're passing up chances and trying to make too many plays. The (Wild) have good sticks (and) there's a lot of obstruction out there. You can't go out there and try to make pretty plays. It's got to be ugly and we're not doing that enough. Once we start doing that, we have the strength, the speed (and) the skill to get on the board and make things happen and take it out of their hands instead of just letting them be the guys that shut us down. It's more up to us than anything." Stay tuned.

Breathe easy, at least for now: Jonathan Toews returned to Sunday's game in the secodn period. He was shaken up by a David Backes hit, but apparently not enough to keep him out for long. Naturally, with any case like this, things could be worse once the adrenaline wears off.

Jonathan Toews needed to head toward the locker room after a hit by David Backes. It's unclear how severe Toews' issue might be, but it could be a big deal for fantasy owners if he even misses just a few games. The Chicago Blackhawks must play it safe with so much already settled playoffs-wise, so that might mean a conservative approach with "Captain Serious."

The Chicago Blackhawks secured their division championship with a 3-2 shootout win over the Detroit Red Wings Friday but team captain Jonathan Toews says there's still plenty of work to do. With the division title locked up, the Hawks can look ahead to the top seed, the Presidents' Trophy, then the playoffs. But the way the Hawks see it, there's still plenty to work on in their last eight regular-season games, including a power play that's has one goal in its last 24 chances. ''We're going to keep going,'' Toews said. ''We got our division, we got home ice in the playoffs and we just keep building. I think this really shows that we're hungry and we're really motivated to improve every single night.''