Équipe: 2020-21 Blackhawks de Chicago

Date de création initiale: 23 oct. 2020

Publié: 27 oct. 2020

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

Just because Chicago want to do a rebuild, I tried to figure how they can do it quick.

1. I needed to choose between Toews or Kane to make a trade. I decided to move Kane because he has the highest trade value in my mind and because with a young team, Toews is a better leader as he is the team captain also. I think a nice trade partner would be Buffalo. They want to trade Ristolainen since couple years and Chicago needs to add a young top 2 defenseman with a nice cap hit. I add Mittelstadt as a young potential player and recent 1st rounder defenseman Ryan Johnson + of course a 1st round pick.

2. I traded Duncan Keith to Boston for 2x 2nd round pick. Keith has a fair contract and Boston is a perfect trade fit because they need to replace Krug and Chara as left handed defenseman.

3. I traded Dylan Strome to Ottawa because I need to add a decent future good goalie in the depth chart. Ottawa needs to add depth in their centerline and Strome is a perfect fit as a high top 6 center potential. I figured that Ottawa would prefer to keep Gustavsson instead of Sogaard so I put him in the package with RW Drake Batherson and 2nd round pick.

This is where Chicago needs to take benefit of it's salary cap place and make the rebuild take the 2nd speed.

3. They took the huge contract of Louis Eriksson from Vancouver with a 1st round pick. They will buyout him at the end of the season.

4. I would take advantage of salary cap problem of Tampa Bay to add another 1st round pick with the bad contract situation of Tyler Johnson. They also don't have cap space for resign RFA Mathieu Joseph, so I asked him in the trade as we never have enough young grit in a roster.

The results :

- I added 3x first round pick next year + our pick who would be probably top 10.
- I added 3x 2nd round pick
- I added young players Ristolainen (D), Ryan Johnson (D), Casey Mittelstadt (C), Drake Batherson (RW), Mads Sogaard (G)

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