"What has Marian Hossa been doing this summer?

Plenty of relaxing, to be sure -- like most players in the off-season -- but the Chicago Blackhawks star forward has also done a little bit of math in his downtime.

More specifically, Hossa has figured out just how many games he's played in the past three seasons -- which included back-to-back-to-back trips to the Stanley Cup Final with three different teams, participation in the 2010 Winter Olympics plus this past season's marathon seven-game loss to the Vancouver Canucks in the first round of the playoffs.

"The one player that I've talked a couple times to (this summer) was Marian Hossa, and he just talked about (how) he really needed this break to let his body recuperate," said Blackhawks Vice President and General Manager Stan Bowman, who participated in Monday's charity Blackhawks Alumni Golf Outing at Medinah Country Club. "He's played so much hockey over the past three or four years, with all those long runs in the playoffs. I think he figured out that he's played almost an additional 100 games than most guys have played.""