What is the odd 2010 trade you speak of?
why did you think it was odd at the time? they had cap issues, had to trade some players
so this was the summer of 2010 for chicago —
| Chicago Blackhawks acquire | Date | Florida Panthers acquire |
| July 22, 2010 | |
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| Chicago Blackhawks acquire | Date | Atlanta Thrashers acquire |
| Ivan Vishnevskiy
2011 2nd round pick (#36-Adam Clendening) |
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| Toronto Maple Leafs acquire | Date | Chicago Blackhawks acquire |
| Bill Sweatt
Kris Versteeg |
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[/TBODY] | June 30, 2010 |
Christopher Didomenico
Philippe Paradis
Viktor Stalberg | |
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| Boston Bruins acquire | Date | Chicago Blackhawks acquire |
| 2010 7th round pick (#210-Zach Trotman) |
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[/TBODY] | June 26, 2010 |
| 2011 7th round pick (#210-Johan Mattsson) | |
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| Toronto Maple Leafs acquire | Date | Chicago Blackhawks acquire |
| 2010 2nd round pick (#43-Bradley Ross) |
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[/TBODY] | June 26, 2010 | |
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| Chicago Blackhawks acquire | Date | New York Islanders acquire |
| 2010 2nd round pick (#35-Ludvig Rensfeldt)
2010 2nd round pick (#58-Kent Simpson) |
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[/TBODY] | June 25, 2010 |
| 2010 1st round pick #30-Brock Nelson) | |
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| Edmonton Oilers acquire | Date | Chicago Blackhawks acquire |
| June 24, 2010 |
| 2010 6th round pick (#151-Mirko Hoefflin) | |
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| Chicago Blackhawks acquire | Date | Atlanta Thrashers acquire |
| Joey Crabb
Jeremy Morin
Marty Reasoner
2010 1st round pick (#24-Kevin Hayes)
2010 2nd round pick (#54-Justin Holl) |
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[/TBODY] | June 23, 2010 |
Akim Aliu
Dustin Byfuglien
Ben Eager
Brent Sopel | |
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plus antti niemi,
September 2, 2010: Signed as a Free Agent with the
San Jose Sharks. and christobal huet conveniently went off to the swiss league, freeing up $5.625 in cap space.
ignore the picks and the players off the roster that left are niemi, byfuglien, eager, sopel, colin fraser, versteeg, and ladd. aliu was likely moved for reasons related to peters on the AHL team. but yeah, they were in a major cap crunch so who knows whether anyone was moved for aldrich-related reasons. sopel had one more year on a $2.33 cap hit, i don't think they could have afforded to keep him in a neutral situation. as it stands, they went into the next season with campbell on his huge unmovable deal, keith on a big contract, seabrook on his bridge, and hjalmarsson got a raise to the same bridge. the rest of the D were all minimum contracts.
eager and fraser though, those were minimum guys so they certainly weren't moved for money reasons. that said, it's also hard to say they weren't improved upon with the better cheap bottom of roster players chicago brought in to replace them.
i believe bill sweatt was an NCAA draft pick about to age into unrestricted free agency. we signed him later in the summer.
but the real winner in all this? i bet dale tallon is glad he got fired now.
