As we, at WGN Radio, prepare to welcome the Chicago Blackhawks into the “Century Club,” we are celebrating Chicago’s Original 6 hockey organization by highlighting over 100 players, coaches, executives, broadcasters and personalities that have been a part of Blackhawks’ 100-year history. Every weekday leading up to and through the 2025-26 season, you will hear about a different all-time Blackhawks figure in both the morning and afternoon WGN Radio sports reports, and here on WGNRadio.com. Several eras of Chicago hockey will be represented in our profiles, voiced by Dave Eanet, Andy Masur, Charlie Roumeliotis, Kevin Powell and Jack Heinrich.

We previously covered Teuvo Teravainen. Next up:

Dale Tallon

by Dave Eanet

Dale Tallon has seen it all in more than a half-century in the NHL as a player, broadcaster and executive. Three years after being drafted 2nd overall by Vancouver, Tallon was traded to the Blackhawks where he spent 5 of his 10 NHL seasons. He later entered the broadcast booth for the Hawks and then the front office, eventually becoming GM in 2005. He would draft or sign the core of the Blackhawks Stanley Cup teams, including Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane and Marian Hossa. He was replaced as GM by Stan Bowman, and left to become general manager of the Florida Panthers.