Rumor: More trades coming?
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To have a $0 payroll and be capped out in 2 years is f***ing insane.
Blue Liner
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GMGM was too smug about eating everyone else's bad contracts to gain picks. He clearly didnt anticipate being this good this soon to a point where now he needs to start losing some of those bad deals immediately
RememberTheRoar
“I’m not as worried about the 5-on-5 scoring.”
Blue Liner
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How is Subban's game, currently? I'm too lazy to look up the numbers and my viewing of NSH was very limited last season.
Blackhawkswincup
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BK
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Blackhawkswincup
RIP Fugu
Was still a good trade for Nashville
Weber is crap IMO in his own end and always was overrated. Suter carried him
Weber is crap IMO in his own end and always was overrated. Suter carried him
BK
"Goalie Apologist"
Blackhawkswincup
RIP Fugu
True
f***ing Flyers man that was a poison contract that Preds had to match (Given state of organization at time) but in hindsight they should have walked away
On one hand we want more aggressive GM's with regard to offer sheet but the way Holmgren targeted a franchise that at time was struggling with such a BS contract structure did leave a bad taste in a lot of people's mouth's
Ottawa Senators have about 30 million dollars in cap space...it is not a top destination for ufa free agents cuz they are in full rebuild mode .They need to take in some salary to reach salary floor.Hawks could trade Artem Anisimov and Gustev Forsling to Ottawa for draft picks .Maybe trade Brendan Saad too and use that money saved to sign ufa free agents or in a trade for a player under contract .
Vegas has to shed because after the new Karlsson 8byr deal gets done they are way over the cap..
What about Paul Stastny?
2 yrs left on his deal @ $6.5 per..
If we traded AA elsewhere the bump up is only about a $2million differential!
Plus he has only a modified NTC ..so we could trade him at TDL either this season if not in playoff race or in the following season TDL if we still are not in playoff race or after this season in summer either before or Fter tge draft of we retain a bit of salary to sweeten a trade. Or just keep him for the full 2 if he realky helps helps us.
What about Paul Stastny?
2 yrs left on his deal @ $6.5 per..
If we traded AA elsewhere the bump up is only about a $2million differential!
Plus he has only a modified NTC ..so we could trade him at TDL either this season if not in playoff race or in the following season TDL if we still are not in playoff race or after this season in summer either before or Fter tge draft of we retain a bit of salary to sweeten a trade. Or just keep him for the full 2 if he realky helps helps us.
Kevin Musto
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Colin White needs to be re-signed so if he wants out of Ottawa, I'd look to acquire him.
Stan Bowman said after Saturday’s draft that Brendan Perlini will be re-signed. Dylan Sikura is expected to be as well, as is Gustav Forsling. John Quenneville, who was acquired for John Hayden, is also a RFA and is expected to receive a qualifying offer but it’s unclear whether he’ll factor into the Blackhawks’ plans next season. So they don’t have an unlimited supply of money to spend.
But they certainly have enough to add an impact-type player.
Over the last month, the Blackhawks have been linked to Kevin Hayes (before his rights were traded to Philadelphia and signed a seven-year, $50 million deal), New York Islanders captain Anders Lee and six-time 30-goal scorer Corey Perry, to name a few. That indicates the Blackhawks are in the market for a middle tier player, not the upper (sorry Chicago, but the Artemi Panarin homecoming always has been a pipe dream).
The other option is to continue exploring the trade market.
The Blackhawks already acquired defenseman Olli Maatta, but that was a deal executed because it didn't require subtracting a key piece of the roster. It really could come down to whether the Blackhawks want to handpick who they want via trade and give up the assets to do it or potentially overpay — both in dollar amount and term — on the open market, which could present challenges down the road when Alex DeBrincat, Dylan Strome and even Erik Gustafsson — depending on if he fits into the budget — are due new deals.
If it's the former, the Blackhawks prefer overpaying for the right player — somebody like Perry or Joe Pavelski on a shorter-term deal despite a higher cap hit would be ideal to help bridge the gap as far as responsibilities put on the younger players. If it’s the latter, the Blackhawks will pull off a trade for a high-end player only if it makes sense for the short term and long term because the offseason is a time to enhance the roster for both.
Bowman doesn’t know exactly how the next few weeks are going to play out, but you can bet that he’ll have his phone attached to his ear looking for ways to improve the roster and help turn the Blackhawks into a consistent playoff contender again.
“We have a good position right now,” Bowman said. “For next season, we're in a better place than most teams. After that, it's hard to say, because we don't know what the cap will be a year from now and we've got a couple players that are going to graduate to new contracts a year from now. Not a lot of free agents take one-year contracts, so that's the thing — if you're going to sign a free agent, you've got to look at what's going to be the implication two years down the road. So from that perspective, trades might be more appealing to us than necessarily adding a top free agent. We're going to have some new players for next year, but I don't know if it's going to be free agents or through trades.”
But they certainly have enough to add an impact-type player.
Over the last month, the Blackhawks have been linked to Kevin Hayes (before his rights were traded to Philadelphia and signed a seven-year, $50 million deal), New York Islanders captain Anders Lee and six-time 30-goal scorer Corey Perry, to name a few. That indicates the Blackhawks are in the market for a middle tier player, not the upper (sorry Chicago, but the Artemi Panarin homecoming always has been a pipe dream).
The other option is to continue exploring the trade market.
The Blackhawks already acquired defenseman Olli Maatta, but that was a deal executed because it didn't require subtracting a key piece of the roster. It really could come down to whether the Blackhawks want to handpick who they want via trade and give up the assets to do it or potentially overpay — both in dollar amount and term — on the open market, which could present challenges down the road when Alex DeBrincat, Dylan Strome and even Erik Gustafsson — depending on if he fits into the budget — are due new deals.
If it's the former, the Blackhawks prefer overpaying for the right player — somebody like Perry or Joe Pavelski on a shorter-term deal despite a higher cap hit would be ideal to help bridge the gap as far as responsibilities put on the younger players. If it’s the latter, the Blackhawks will pull off a trade for a high-end player only if it makes sense for the short term and long term because the offseason is a time to enhance the roster for both.
Bowman doesn’t know exactly how the next few weeks are going to play out, but you can bet that he’ll have his phone attached to his ear looking for ways to improve the roster and help turn the Blackhawks into a consistent playoff contender again.
“We have a good position right now,” Bowman said. “For next season, we're in a better place than most teams. After that, it's hard to say, because we don't know what the cap will be a year from now and we've got a couple players that are going to graduate to new contracts a year from now. Not a lot of free agents take one-year contracts, so that's the thing — if you're going to sign a free agent, you've got to look at what's going to be the implication two years down the road. So from that perspective, trades might be more appealing to us than necessarily adding a top free agent. We're going to have some new players for next year, but I don't know if it's going to be free agents or through trades.”
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