Chicago Blackhawks score big with a heartfelt gesture

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It sounded like an urban legend.

Reports were popping up on blogs, hockey message boards and websites that the Blackhawks, while on a trip to Toronto, decided on their own to charter a couple of buses and attend the funeral of their general manager’s father in northern Ontario.

As the legend had it, on the way back to Toronto, the team stopped in a small-town McDonalds and stunned the locals by ordering up Big Macs and fries -- and beamed in delight as customers recognized them from their pictures on the wall and their images on trading cards that accompany Mickey D’s meals.

But this is no urban legend.

It was a wonderful and thoughtful move by the Hawks.

-- Helene Elliott