Équipe: 2019-20 Blackhawks de Chicago

Date de création initiale: 6 janv. 2020

Publié: 6 janv. 2020

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

Looking at the team that has been on the ice the last three games, no Nylander should not be playing and from that angle, I have no issue with him in the press box.

That being said, they took at huge risk by going out and getting this guy. He's a piece that this front office really wanted for the future. We could talk about how awful that trade was until we're all blue in the face, but we have this player, with a lot of upside, who this front office gave up a lot for. I have no idea what their plan is with Nylander's development, but something tells me that benching him is not the right course of action.

If it were up to me, I'd move him back down to the 4th line with Carpenter and Smith. When they played together earlier this year, it looked like Nylander was making some progress defensively and there was less pressure on him to produce offensively. That's the role I'd like to see him in for the rest of the year and then next year, assuming he's still with the team, try him back out in the top-6. If he struggles or pouts in the bottom-6, he's still waiver exempt. He can go to Rockford and hopefully make some progress up there.

But what does everyone else think? I'm genuinely interested in hearing how other people see it. I don't know what they're doing with him and would like to reiterate, for the 678th time, that Jokiharju for Nylander was an awful trade that should've never happened. But he's here and we've gotta make the best out of it