Équipe: 2019-20 Blackhawks de Chicago

Date de création initiale: 15 avr. 2019

Publié: 15 avr. 2019

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

This years Forwards FA class is strong, I would love to see the Hawks add young talent there opposed to drafting Cozens, Dach, Turcotte, or the risk with Podkolzin at #3. In this scenario, they bring back a former draft pick as well as a local product.

I'm also a huge believer that this team needs to win now with the little chance Kane and Toews have many years like last year left in them. They caught a break getting #3, and I think the best move, regardless of their defensive prospect stockpile, is Byram. Detroit seems like a perfect fit for a trade here, as they could easily justify trading one of their three 2nd round picks to get Podkolzin (or Cozens).

These D pairings would each give you an offensive minded D man who can along with a stay-at-home D man that has little responsibility besides protecting the D zone (excluding that last pair, but neither of them may even be with the NHL team next year anyway).

I know everyone says they're over-booked on D, but in my eyes Gus is either traded at the 2020 TDL, or simply not re-signed for what his asking price will be. Murphy I see as someone who is traded within the next 12 months as well. This gives you a D-core of Keith, Seabrook, Joker, Boqvist, Beaudin, Byram, and Mitchell for the next 4-5 years. Krys becoming the odd-man out can be kept for depth or traded if need be.

This amount of cap space would allow you to re-sign Debrincat in 2020, but would require a little creativity to re-sign Strome if his production keeps up. Crawfords pay-cut, Murphy off the books, and an increase in salary cap should allow you to get it done though.

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