Confirmed with Link: Marc-Andre Fleury to Wild

[Hawkaholic]

I don't know how anyone could have thought that. It would have been very reasonable to assume CHI would be better with Fleury, Jones, Toews (even coming off missing a year and likely being a shell of himself) and McCabe. The issue was they were never really the 12th worst team in the league, trying to jump over a few teams and sneak into the playoffs. They were the arguably the worst team in the league (the worst by xGF%), that for a decent stretch got very good goaltending from Lankinen and had Kane scoring 1.5 PpG for like half the year. This year is just less of a mirage. We're 4th in xGF% and the 8th worst team. Instead of last year when we were dead-last in xGF% but finished 12th worst.

I misunderstood your original post, didnt get the sarcasm. I think we agree.

 

[Bubba88]

I can't root for the Wild, I take the 2nd.

Best of luck to Flower, he grew on me in his short time.

 

[Rick C137]

Honestly some pretty good work here by Davidson. Showed Guerin a bluff by playing MAF and letting Guerin think he diddnt mind holding on to MAF if he wasn’t getting his value. MAF had an extremely short trade list and Minnesota was really one of the only teams that would work and had significant interest. That condition could also end up being a valuable one as MAF for sure has the talent to steal a series.

Great value all things considered imo.

 

[x Tame Impala]

The seemingly popular strategy in sports now is if you are not very good tear it completely down, suck as much as possible, tank, and gather as many picks and cap space as possible and build it from scratch. Sounds nice and sometimes it works (2016 Cubs) but just as many times you fall deep into the abyss and stay there forever (NY Jets, many others). This is the result of years of blunders and mismanagement, now this team could be the worst in the league next year. Building through the draft in the NHL is ridiculously long and a complete crap shoot, I really don’t see much hope for this franchise for many years. Its sad, we have 3 teams in Chicago now in this exact same position.

Yeah it’s going to be bleak for Chicago sports for a while. The Sox and Bulls are closest but both haven’t taken the next big leap.

At least we have 3 Cup wins to remember

 

[MileHighHawksFan]

Minny is picking up steam don’t look now!

 

[Kaners Bald Spot]

I wish the Hawks could have also received Kahkonen in this deal.