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The Blackhawks project to have more than $40 million in cap space this summer, but Davidson doesn’t want to tie (much of) it up on long-term deals. He’s more interested in how that cap space can help his team over a longer time frame, and his ideal vision is to use most of it internally on players whom Chicago has added through the draft.
“The draft picks, the cap space, it’s all by design – and for good reason in this rebuild,” Davidson said on the Mully & Haugh Show on Friday morning. “The one thing about the cap space – and I’ve been asked about it a lot with respect to now what do you this summer? – you know what, I think what we’ve seen and how we’ve how sort of studied the landscape in the NHL is that you can really stunt your ceiling and your upside as a team by spending too early. And hopefully we’ve got enough good players coming in, young good players coming in with the new core that you know what? They’re going to require most of that salary cap space. And the last thing we want to do is acquire all these young players, all this exciting young talent, all this great draft capital and we use it, they get here and then we jump too early in free agency in our life cycle and now we can’t pay some of those great, exciting young players. That’s the last thing that we want.”
Kyle Davidson explains why he'll be cautious in using Blackhawks' salary cap space in early stages of rebuild
While Blackhawks general manager Kyle Davidson understands that landing the No. 1 overall pick in the NHL Draft could accelerate the team’s rebuilding timeline, he has also stressed that he’ll have a cautious approach to using ample salary cap space.
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The Blackhawks project to have more than $40 million in cap space this summer, but Davidson doesn’t want to tie (much of) it up on long-term deals. He’s more interested in how that cap space can help his team over a longer time frame, and his ideal vision is to use most of it internally on players whom Chicago has added through the draft.
“The draft picks, the cap space, it’s all by design – and for good reason in this rebuild,” Davidson said on the Mully & Haugh Show on Friday morning. “The one thing about the cap space – and I’ve been asked about it a lot with respect to now what do you this summer? – you know what, I think what we’ve seen and how we’ve how sort of studied the landscape in the NHL is that you can really stunt your ceiling and your upside as a team by spending too early. And hopefully we’ve got enough good players coming in, young good players coming in with the new core that you know what? They’re going to require most of that salary cap space. And the last thing we want to do is acquire all these young players, all this exciting young talent, all this great draft capital and we use it, they get here and then we jump too early in free agency in our life cycle and now we can’t pay some of those great, exciting young players. That’s the last thing that we want.”
