What Couldve Been

Created by: ForsbergForVezina

Team: 2021-22 Chicago Blackhawks

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 28, 2022

Published: Apr. 9, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Legend

Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

Still not a good team by any stretch of the imagination, but much better set up for success in the next 2-3 years than the current one is, who probably won't be back to the playoffs for at least another half decade.

Thoughts?

Trades

CHI

Bean, Jake
Boqvist, Adam
Sillinger, Cole
2022 1st round pick (CHI)

CBJ

Allan, Nolan
Jones, Seth
2022 6th round pick (CBJ)

CHI

Hagel, Brandon
2022 4th round pick (CHI)
2024 4th round pick (CHI)

TBL

Katchouk, Boris
Raddysh, Taylor
2023 1st round pick (TBL)
2024 1st round pick (TBL)

CHI

Hamilton, Dougie

NJD

McCabe, Jake

CHI

NYI

Gustafsson, Erik

CHI

Fleury, Marc-André

MIN

2022 2nd round pick (MIN)

CHI

Heimosalmi, Aleksi

CAR

Bean, Jake

Retained Salary Transactions

Olli Määttä: $750,108 (18.37%)
Marc-André Fleury: $3,500,000 (50%)

Buried

Brett Connolly: $2,375,000 ($3,500,000)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2022
2023
2024

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$81,500,000	$71,610,881	$452,439	$3,580,000	$9,889,119

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
DeBrincat, Alex $6,400,000$6,400,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Strome, Dylan $3,000,000$3,000,000 C UFA - 1	Kane, Patrick $2,625,000$2,625,000 RW NMC UFA - 2
Hagel, Brandon $1,500,000$1,500,000 LW UFA - 3	Toews, Jonathan $10,500,000$10,500,000 C NMC UFA - 2	Kubalik, Dominik $3,700,000$3,700,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
Kurashev, Philipp $842,500$842,500 ($32,500$32K) LW, C, RW RFA - 1	Johnson, Tyler $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, C, LW M-NTC UFA - 3	Dach, Kirby $925,000$925,000 ($2,500,000$2M) C, RW RFA - 1
Lafferty, Sam $750,000$750,000 RW, C, LW UFA - 1	Borgström, Henrik $1,000,000$1,000,000 C RFA - 2	Entwistle, Mackenzie $811,667$811,667 ($32,500$32K) LW, C RFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
De Haan, Calvin $4,550,000$4,550,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Hamilton, Dougie $9,000,000$9,000,000 RD NMC UFA - 7	Fleury, Marc-André $3,500,000$3,500,000 G M-NTC UFA - 1
Jones, Caleb $850,000$850,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Murphy, Connor $3,850,000$3,850,000 RD UFA - 1
Stillman, Riley $1,350,000$1,350,000 LD RFA - 3	Boqvist, Adam $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) RD RFA - 1	Lankinen, Kevin $800,000$800,000 G UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Slavin, Josiah $842,500$842,500 ($82,500$82K) C UFA - 2		Shaw, Andrew $3,900,000$3,900,000 C, RW UFA - 1
Khaira, Jujhar $975,000$975,000 LW, C UFA - 2
Galvas, Jakub $867,500$867,500 ($82,500$82K) LD UFA - 2

Taxi Squad
Sillinger, Cole $925,000$925,000 ($0$0$0$0) ($425,000$425K) C RFA - 3

Top Comments

Apr. 9, 2022 at 11:56 a.m.

GeneralLandro

Joined: Jun. 2021

Posts: 15,535

Likes: 11,920

Would have been a much much much better start to rebuilding imo

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Apr. 9, 2022 at 12:09 p.m.

ForsbergForVezina

CHI NYI

Joined: May 2018

Posts: 4,661

Likes: 2,253

Quoting: GeneralLandro

Would have been a much much much better start to rebuilding imo

It would've been. Maybe even passing on Hamilton might've been a good route to take too. That cap space could be used on young guys coming off ELCs or future UFAs when we would've been really ready to compete again

Of course, who knows if Hamilton even wanted to come, but it sounds like Bowman and Co. were set on Jones from the start

Apr. 9, 2022 at 12:10 p.m.

GeneralLandro

Joined: Jun. 2021

Posts: 15,535

Likes: 11,920

Quoting: ForsbergForVezina

ehh I don't know, I think every team needs a number 1 d man and he is that -- even if he became a number 2 in the future that isn't a bad 1 2 punch

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Apr. 9, 2022 at 12:29 p.m.

Wadejos123

Joined: May 2017

Posts: 8,292

Likes: 4,938

I would feel a lot better about the state of this team if we had Boqvist, Sillinger/Coronato, our 2023 1st, etc

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Apr. 9, 2022 at 12:30 p.m.

SlickWilly

Joined: Nov. 2017

Posts: 3,235

Likes: 2,175

I still would do that Hagel trade. Thats just too much value to pass up

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