Quoting: ImSmarterThanYou
This is a steal for Montreal. Blackhawks fans probably want this to happen too. My question is, why? The Hawks defense is a dumpster fire. I don’t know Corey Crawford’s status, even as good as he is? 100% he can’t backstop that train wreck of a defense. Now you’re asking “what if we trade for defense?”. At what point do you guys stop cheering on trades that wreck your future? You criticize Ken Holland for doing it all these years, but here y’all are cheering on idiotic trades. The Hawks suck. Keep Beaudin, Boqvist, Nordgren, Debrincat, Kahun, Sikura, and the rest of your good prospects. You guys don’t have that many good ones to be dishing out players that are almost locks as average to elite nhl players.
Hawks have a very deep pool of NHL prospects on D that will all be ready anywhere from this season to 2 seasons out. All these players have the game to play at the NHL level.
Henri Jokiharju - 1st or 2nd line
Adam Boqvist - 1st line
Nicolas Beaudin - 1st or 2nd line
Blake Hillman - 2nd or 3rd line
Ian Mitchell - 1st or 2nd line
Gustav Forsling - 2nd or 3rd line
Dennis Gilbert - 3rd line
Carl Dalhstrom - 3rd line
Lucas Carlsson - 2nd or 3rd line
Chad Krys - 3rd line
The issue for the prospect pool in Chicago is a lack of forward talent. There is only a handful, maybe 5 or 6, that truly have NHL talent. On top of that, they need a winger bad now. I'm not a huge fan of grabbing a 30 year old winger who will want a 5 to 7 year contract extension at $6M+ a year though. I truly hope they grab Skinner from Carolina as he would be a dynamite scoring partner on the 2nd line with Kane. For that, I would give up a 1st and Beaudin and not look back.