The Unpopular Route No Trades

Created by: exo2769

Team: 2020-21 Chicago Blackhawks

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 26, 2020

Published: Jul. 30, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

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UFA - 5

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STAY THE COURSE!

Why? We KNOW the cap for the next 3 years. This assumes we can't trade Maatta, which I believe we can. It also assumes Smith goes to Rockford. I'm not 100% sure we can move him without giving up good assets. Sending him down can actually HELP the younger guys become professionals.

Strome and Kubalik take 1 year deals. There will be extra cap next year with Saad and Smith coming off the books next year. I really don't think the threat of an offersheet is a serious one this offseason. They typically aren't anyway, but especially this year with close to all the teams scrambling to figure out their cap situations.

Pius Suter will EARN a spot in the middle six. I think his style of play best matches Saad/Toews, but I just can't break up that Kubalik/Toews/Saad line. It's what I've wanted since the start of the 2019 season and it's really good.

I also like the they're rolling for the EDM playoff series. It allows for Kane to bounce between Strome/Nylander and Dach/Debcrincat. HOWEVER, I do think Pius Suter will bounce Nylander down to the 4th line. Absolutely nothing against Nylander. I think he just needs more time to develop. Keep skating hard. His time will come.

As for in net. I'd prefer to sign Crow vs any other option, but I understand if we need to go Talbot/Greiss...that's still better than losing assets in a trade.

I'm growing more interested in drafting Sanderson as I do more research. He won't be ready for quite some time, but He's looking like the real deal every time I watch his games. If the Hawks are at pick 10 I'd be ok with Sanderson/Quinn/Lundell. If they go Askarov, I'm not going to pout because they need a prospect goalie with starter potential...I just don't think it's a wise choice of a top 10 pick.

Free Agent Signings

RFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Strome, Dylan		1	$3,500,000
Kubalik, Dominik		1	$3,500,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Crawford, Corey		2	$3,000,000

Buyouts

Olli Määttä: $680,600

Buried

Zack Smith: $2,175,000 ($3,250,000)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2020
2021
2022

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$81,500,000	$72,234,306	$1,090,244	$5,982,500	$9,265,694

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Kubalik, Dominik $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Toews, Jonathan $10,500,000$10,500,000 C NMC UFA - 3	Saad, Brandon $5,000,000$5,000,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 1
Suter, Pius $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) C, LW UFA - 1	Strome, Dylan $3,500,000$3,500,000 C UFA - 2	Kane, Patrick $2,625,000$2,625,000 RW NMC UFA - 3
DeBrincat, Alex $6,400,000$6,400,000 LW, RW UFA - 3	Dach, Kirby $925,000$925,000 ($2,500,000$2M) C, RW RFA - 2	Shaw, Andrew $3,900,000$3,900,000 C, RW UFA - 2
Nylander, Alexander $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 1	Kämpf, David $1,000,000$1,000,000 C UFA - 1	Carpenter, Ryan $1,000,000$1,000,000 RW, C UFA - 2
	Highmore, Matthew $725,000$725,000 LW, RW UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Keith, Duncan $5,538,462$5,538,462 LD NMC UFA - 3	Boqvist, Adam $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) RD RFA - 2	Crawford, Corey $3,000,000$3,000,000 G UFA - 2
De Haan, Calvin $4,550,000$4,550,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	Murphy, Connor $3,850,000$3,850,000 RD UFA - 2	Delia, Collin $1,000,000$1,000,000 G UFA - 2
	Mitchell, Ian $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) RD RFA - 3
Carlsson, Lucas $792,500$792,500 ($82,500$82K) LD UFA - 1	Seabrook, Brent $6,875,000$6,875,000 RD NMC UFA - 4

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Jul. 30, 2020 at 10:58 a.m.

Kyle_Davidson

Kyle from Chicago

Joined: Feb. 2018

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Nylander should absolutely be playing over both Suter and Shaw at this point.

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Jul. 30, 2020 at 11:01 a.m.

McRanteskog

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Quoting: Stan_Bowman

Nylander should absolutely be playing over both Suter and Shaw at this point.

100%

Jul. 30, 2020 at 11:02 a.m.

exo2769

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Edited Jul. 30, 2020 at 11:07 a.m.

Quoting: Stan_Bowman

Nylander should absolutely be playing over both Suter and Shaw at this point.

IDK about that. There were a few times last night that Kane was upset at him jumping off sides stopping the rush. I think he's a solid player and he 100% is NOT the lazy player that BUF fans were making him out to be, but Nylander's actually produced better when he's AWAY from Kane. It's weird, but true.

https://www.naturalstattrick.com/linestats.php?fromseason=20192020&thruseason=20192020&stype=2&sit=5v5&score=all&rate=n&team=CHI&vteam=ALL&view=wowy&loc=B&gpfilt=none&fd=2019-10-02&td=2020-04-04&tgp=2000&strict=incl&p1=8479423&p2=8474141&p3=0&p4=0&p5=0

***EDIT*** This is a good thing by the way! I like it when players aren't required to be next to super stars in order to produce. He's actually the BEST when he pairs with Kampf as his centerman.

https://www.naturalstattrick.com/linestats.php?fromseason=20192020&thruseason=20192020&stype=2&sit=5v5&score=all&rate=n&team=CHI&vteam=ALL&view=wowy&loc=B&gpfilt=none&fd=2019-10-02&td=2020-04-04&tgp=2000&strict=incl&p1=8479423&p2=8480144&p3=0&p4=0&p5=0

Jul. 30, 2020 at 11:11 a.m.

SlickWilly

Joined: Nov. 2017

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Quoting: exo2769

I liked Nylander a lot last night. He was aggressive and made some good plays on the forecheck, and the two times I saw him go offside, one was not his fault because Kane made an extra move with the puck which completely screwed Nylander over and the other one was because of a board battle, which is fairly common. Nylander made a couple great passes to Kane that unfortunately he couldnt bury, but he very well could have been all over the scoresheet yesterday

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Jul. 30, 2020 at 11:12 a.m.

Kyle_Davidson

Kyle from Chicago

Joined: Feb. 2018

Posts: 9,842

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Quoting: exo2769

Last night was the first time in 4.5 months that any of them played hockey against a real opponent, I'm not sure where you heard that Kane was frustrated with Nylander going offsides, but if he was it seems unwarranted in my opinion. I only saw it happen once last night and I think it was a bad call by the ref.

The sample size is too small to say that Nylander produces better away from Kane, but if you don't want to play him with Kane then you should easily play him with Strome/Dach and Debrincat. My point being that there's no way he will become a top 6/9 player if we continue to bury him on the 4th line.

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