So the Chicago Blackhawks are part of the 'Original Six' NHL teams, one of the oldest and most historic NHL teams in the league. They have won the Stanley Cup (NHL championship) 6 times in their history which is the 5th most of any active team in the league. 3 of those championships came during the 2010s which they won during the 2009-10, 2012-13, and 2014-15 seasons. In other words, they had a dynasty as recently as 8 years ago and they did this with two superstar forwards (one of which is arguably the greatest American forward of all time), an elite goalie and a strong defense.
They were good a few years after that but it was only in the last two years that their core players started to decline and the team started to suck. One by one, the core players either retired, released, or traded elsewhere. This season saw the last of those players (the two star forwards) leave the team. And so they finished this season with the 3rd worst record in the league but they got to pick first overall because they won the draft lottery. And who just happens to be in this draft? A once in a generation talent who's regarded as the most talented prospect since 2015. Many fans believe that the lottery was rigged so that the historic big market team would have a new superstar immediately after losing their previous two superstars.
It is also worth mentioning that one of my favourite teams is the Vancouver Canucks. The Blackhawks and Canucks were rivalries for many years during the late 200s and early 2010s and the Blackhawks tortured the Canucks in the playoffs until 2011 when they finally won a series against them. Connor Bedard, the player that they drafted, is from North Vancouver, which is in the metro Vancouver area, so it just adds salt to the wound to see a local prodigy go to a rival team.
The most important part of all this is that the Blackhawks covered up a sexual assault case of one of their players by a member of the team staff in 2010 that wasn't revealed until a decade later. Despite the player bringing up the incident to management, nothing was done about it and the staff member later went on to work for a couple of universities where he also was accused of sexual assault. Many people believe that the Blackhawks weren't punished fairly for this incident and that they should have had their draft pick taken away from them.