Équipe: 2023-24 Blackhawks de Chicago

Date de création initiale: 9 févr. 2023

Publié: 18 févr. 2023

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

With around 12 players who are signed or will be signed from the 2019,20 & 21draft and the 8 players selected in the first three rounds of the 2022 draft combined with my projected draft for 2023 list below and the additional picks collected for 2024--the collection of young players is over. We now need to focus on these young players playing with proven NHL players and that is why Domi, McCabe and Murphy were not traded at the 23 deadline.

Some UFA's signings are for the future: Domi, Larkin and Compher and some are just one year deals for veterans that will bride the gap and give us finical cap flexibility.

2023 Draft
1. Fantili-C
1-(TB) Hrabel-G---top goalie in draft currently in USHL going to UMASS
2-Brindley-W---U of Michigan--plays with Fantili and Nazar
2- (NJ) Willander-RD---top RD in draft at this point--need more RD, have plenty of LD options
2-(TB) Sawchyn-C--plays at Seattle with other top Hawks prospects.

Still 10M under cap with expiring contracts like Johnson, Schenn and Valarmov giving us room in 2024 summer to chase another prime UFA.

Reminder Oilers have not done anything consistently having the top picks three times. The Rangers are good again not because of Kakko #2 and Lafriene #1---it is because of UFA signing Panarin, trade for Fox and hitting a home run draft pick with their goalie.

Many ways to build.

Listing of players signed to entry level is not players to be signed next year but instead to show Organizational Depth

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