Confirmed Buy-Out [CHI] Blackhawks buyout Brett Connolly and Henrik Borgstrom
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Captain Mountain
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Chicago is looking at Arizona's teardown from last year and thought it wasn't aggressive enough.
edguy
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Who is gonna play hockey for Chicago at this point?
Richiebottles
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Kyle Davidson is playing NHL 2022 on Xbox: Confirmed.
Viqsi
"that chick from Ohio"
I for one am looking forward to getting, in the years going forward, yet another strong example of how tearing it all down to the studs (like so many folks keep insisting everybody should do every time the New Hotness comes along) is a consistent recipe for disaster. Because this will end badly. Of this I am absolutely, 100% certain.
WhereAreTheCookies
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Maybe they're preparing to take every teams cap dumps.
JoemAvs
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They are probably in the process of signing the father of Connor Bedard to a 5 year 50 M $ dollar contract.
Basically guaranteeing that he will be a Blackhawk 8 years from now at the very latest...
@Viqsi:
Not really. I wouldn't be so sure about that at all.
We have seen times and times again that in order to win you need the top end stars.
Next year seems to happen to have potentially two of these guys at the top and they recently changed the lottery to benefit the worst teams again...
He's only making $1 million for one more year - is he that bad at that price? And if he is bad wouldn't they want to keep them if their goal is to tank?
This is perplexing, Davidson is a lunatic
...why not just send him down? If he flips out about it you can suspend him and there's no cap hit. Bizarre.
Jesus comma Brodin
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Not that I hate it, but WTF is going on in Chicago?
It's disgraceful how the NHL can allow this to happen to such a big market.
BonMorrison
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CupInSIX
My cap runneth over
Wasn't he the sweetener to take on Connelly's cap hit?
Viqsi
"that chick from Ohio"
I swear to G-d, everybody makes this particular strawman mistake...
Yes, having those top end stars greatly increases the chances of winning. BUT if you rip everything up like the Blackhawks are doing in an attempt to gamble for one, then even if you do get the guy (at best a weighted coin flip, and it is not weighted in your favor) the odds of him actually being able to lead the scrambled, broken, demoralized ash heap that constitutes the rest of the team that's left over are pretty much nonexistent. By tearing your team to shreds like this, you destroy any hope of being able to develop the supporting cast and you end up with folks that have all the talent in the world but zero motivation or confidence. We've seen it so many times before.
Shocker
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I feel like he didn't develop at all after the initial hype, peaked early hard i guess.
Rob Brown
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I remember really wanting him in my keeper league after watching a few of his college highlight videos. He seemed super dominant.
CupInSIX
My cap runneth over
Are people seriously flipping tables over a team buying out a bust of a prospect?
North Cole
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The Rockford Ice Hogs. Arizona is an AHL team playing in an NCAA arena. Seems Chicago wants to be an ECHL team playing in an NHL arena.
Viqsi
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Arthur Morgan
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violaswallet
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Him and Stillman. Stillman looks like an NHLer and as a Florida fan I miss (but still great trade)
It's rare for negative news about a player to come out of the Florida media, but we heard a lot about Borgstrom's work effort and lack of willingness to work on defensive game....
Arthur Morgan
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Viqsi
"that chick from Ohio"
I dunno. Arizona is at least taking players on, even if they are mostly cap dumps. Chicago isn't even doing that much.
