Team: 2022-23 Chicago Blackhawks

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 24, 2021

Published: Jan. 24, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

of course it's hard to speculate two years out, but this is my opinion of how this roster and rebuild could shape up. Trying to be 100% at realistic as possible (meaning i'm not trading Kane)

Toews Retires: I think him not being there for opening night was huge. idk what's going on him him but it's time to legitimitly think about him stepping away from the game

Kieth asks for a trade next offseason: Kieth has been pretty outspoken about not wanting to just be a mentor and wanting to win. I think Kane does really want to end his career here but Kieth might not be as bought in to the rebuild than kane is

Hawks protect 8 skaters instead of 7 F 3 D: This allows them to protect both zadorov and murphy and not have to make a trade. This leaves dehaan and nylander as our top guys exposed. I'll assume nylnader is taken, but I could see a sweetener being put in to make sure they take dehaan

Lankinen/Comesso is the long term future in net: maybe this is just me always liking lankinen since his performance in the WC's for finland, but I really want to see him succeed. Comesso has looked good in his 6 games so far this year, he might be ready to the backup role in 2 years

Colliton gets another extention in 2 years and Stan sticks around too: not that this is what I want to see happen, but I think if ownership is willing to have them be the guys guide us through a full rebuild, they will at least give them the courtesy to see this thing through

Seabrook will somehow not be on this team in 2 years: he's too much of a competitor to be in the press box most nights. He will eigther be traded, bought out, or retired. I'll put him on LTIR to indicate this, but there is plenty of cap to cover it if he was bought out or traded with retention

Hawks take best LD available in 2021 and some sort of forward 2022, hopefully RW because we have nothing behind Kane there right now other than maybe kurashev if he can play there long term

Something probably is done with the 15 mil in extra space, but for now i'll leave it to sign all the kids down the line. Zadorov could be traded down the line to make room for Vlasic (who has looked great so far this year, i'm very excited for him), and i'm not really sure what to do with Regula but I guess we'll see how he develops down the line. I signed riley smith to indicate some sort of RW free agent signing, but that could really be a number of players

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