An off-season story

Team: 2020-21 Chicago Blackhawks

Initial Creation Date: May 21, 2020

Published: May 23, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

NHL decides to postpone draft due to a plan to play being approved by all parties, play begins in the last week of July.

Chicago plays EDM in a best of 5 series and lose in that series 3 games to 2.

The NHL (rightfully) decides that the draft lottery should include the teams that lost in the play in round. It is the only fair way of doing things, considering many of the lower seeds in these play in rounds were not likely to make the playoffs in the first place, and should not be punished for the circumstances.

Chicago wins the draft lottery (1st overall), (this is revealed during the second round of the traditional 16 team playoff) (they have the 9th best odds to do so)

(Playoffs end controversially, because of course they do.)

Chicago resigns Strome for 3 years at 4AAV

Chicago resigns Kubalik for 2 years at 3.250 AAV.

Chicago signs Drake Caggulia for 1 year at 1.5 AAV.

Chicago Resigns Crawford for 1 year at 4AAV

Shaw unofficially retires and we get access to his LTIR money.

At the draft we select Laferniere… he starts the next season.

At the draft Blackhawks trade Olli Maatta and a 4th round pick in 2020 to the jets for a 3rd round pick in 2021. This pick was conditionally included in the Cody Eakin trade, depending on if they resign him prior to next season (and make the round of 16), the pick may be pushed back to 2022. If this is the case, the Blackhawks also get WPG’s 5th round pick in 2021.

Start of the season

Season starts January of 2021, Seabrook is fully healed from his injuries and ready to play. This creates an obvious problem with us having Boqvist, Mitchell, and Murphy in the lineup. This can be solved in a couple of different ways, the first being stashing Mitchell in the AHL until Seabs earns a scratch, trading Murphy/letting him play left side..., or CBO’ing Seabrook in the off-season if that should be an option.

Offseason Ended