Chicago 2023-24 with Bedard Kane and Muscle

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Created by: boilermaker

Team: 2023-24 Chicago Blackhawks

Initial Creation Date: Feb. 16, 2023

Published: Feb. 16, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Chicago fortunate to win the Bedard sweepstakes.
Kane not traded at the 2023 TDL, becomes a UFA, and decides to extend with Chicago when Bedard is drafted.
Toews not traded at the TDL either, announces his retirement and finishes his career with Chicago.
Hawks make a couple of minor 2023 TDL trades and obtain some picks and cap dumps, one of which is Puljujarvi, who is qualified at $3,000,000. Foegele obtained in the same trade is bought out or waived.
Chicago decides to add some muscle via free agency and a trade. The thought process being if anyone goes after Bedard, there will be retaliation on 2 or 3 of your guys.
Chicago goes young on defense by regularly playing 4 of their prospects.
Expect a lot of 6-5 games with Bedard/Kane generating the offense so bet the over on Chicago games.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Kaiser, Wyatt	3	$950,000
Slaggert, Landon	3	$950,000
Wise, Jake	2	$900,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Kurashev, Philipp	2	$1,200,000
Mitchell, Ian	3	$1,200,000
Regula, Alec	3	$1,200,000
Slavin, Josiah	2	$900,000
Söderblom, Arvid	3	$2,000,000
Galvas, Jakub	2	$900,000
Puljujärvi, Jesse	1	$3,000,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Kane, Patrick	3	$7,000,000
Lemieux, Brendan	2	$2,000,000
Reaves, Ryan	2	$2,000,000
Määttä, Olli	1	$2,500,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Bedard, Connor		3	$950,000

Trades

CHI

2024 2nd round pick (CGY)

CGY

Domi to Calgary at the 2023 TDL

CHI

Foegele, Warren
Puljujärvi, Jesse [RFA Rights]
2023 3rd round pick (EDM)
2024 2nd round pick (EDM)

EDM

Lafferty, Sam

Additional Details:

2023 TDL trade

CHI

Bloom, Josh
2023 2nd round pick (PHI)

BUF

Murphy, Connor

Additional Details:

Draft day trade. Could be any decent Buffalo forward prospect.

CHI

Zaitsev, Nikita
2024 2nd round pick (OTT)

OTT

Future considerations.

CHI

Wilson, Tom
2023 2nd round pick (WSH)

WSH

Jones, Caleb [RFA Rights]
McCabe, Jake ($2,000,000 retained)

Additional Details:

Capitals are very thin on defense going into the 2023-2024 season and are in cap trouble. Chicago helps them out by trading two LD in return for Wilson's cap hit. Capitals get some help on the blue line and about $2,000,000 in cap savings. Wilson adds some physicality to Chicago's roster. Too much or too little from either side?

Buyouts

Brett Connolly: $1,166,667
Henrik Borgström: $183,334
Warren Foegele: $583,334

Retained Salary Transactions

Jake McCabe: $2,000,000 (100%)

Recapture Fees

Duncan Keith: $1,938,456

Buried

Alec Regula: $50,000 ($1,200,000)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2023
2024
2025

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$82,500,000	$65,530,958	$0	$1,387,500	$16,969,042

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Reichel, Lukas $925,000$925,000 ($505,000$505K) LW, C RFA - 1	Bedard, Connor $950,000$950,000	Kane, Patrick $7,000,000$7,000,000 RW UFA - 1
Kurashev, Philipp $1,200,000$1,200,000 LW, C, RW RFA - 2	Dickinson, Jason $2,650,000$2,650,000 C, LW UFA - 1	Raddysh, Taylor $758,333$758,333 RW RFA - 1
Entwistle, Mackenzie $800,000$800,000 LW, C RFA - 1	Johnson, Tyler $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, C, LW M-NTC UFA - 1	Puljujärvi, Jesse $3,000,000$3,000,000 RW UFA - 2
Lemieux, Brendan $2,000,000$2,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Blackwell, Colin $1,200,000$1,200,000 C, RW UFA - 1	Wilson, Tom $5,166,667$5,166,667 RW M-NTC UFA - 1
Katchouk, Boris $758,333$758,333 LW RFA - 1		Reaves, Ryan $2,000,000$2,000,000 RW UFA - 3

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Vlasic, Alex $916,667$916,667 ($850,000$850K) LD UFA - 1	Jones, Seth $9,500,000$9,500,000 RD NMC UFA - 7	Mrázek, Petr $3,800,000$3,800,000 G M-NTC UFA - 1
Phillips, Isaak $859,167$859,167 ($32,500$32K) LD RFA - 1	Mitchell, Ian $1,200,000$1,200,000 RD RFA - 1
Määttä, Olli $2,500,000$2,500,000 LD UFA - 2	Roos, Filip $925,000$925,000 LD RFA - 1	Söderblom, Arvid $2,000,000$2,000,000 G RFA - 2
	Zaitsev, Nikita $4,500,000$4,500,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 1

Feb. 16, 2023 at 11:26 a.m.

NoVaSpartan

Craig Laughlin Fan

Joined: Nov. 2019

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Horrible for Washington, there's no better way to say it. Wilson (once he's healthy again), will be a 1st line winger, and Washington already has Fehervary, Orlov, and Alexeyev who will likely be back for next season. Caleb Jones does nothing for the team and McCabe is not a need with the LD currently in the system, Chicago would have to pay a lot more than that for Wilson (who Washington isn't likely trading anyway)

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Feb. 16, 2023 at 11:27 a.m.

eazy_duz_it

jeremy clackston

Joined: Jan. 2023

Posts: 457

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Wilson is untouchable on the caps. He sure isn't a fourth liner

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Feb. 16, 2023 at 11:35 a.m.

littlejerryseinfeld

Joined: Nov. 2017

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Did you mistake tom Wilson for Milan lucic?

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Feb. 16, 2023 at 11:49 a.m.

ChiHawk

Joined: Apr. 2017

Posts: 19,029

Likes: 9,333

The washington trade would never happen, Wilson isn't a cap dump.

The defense is a mess. Regula is solid and will play up and get his chance likely. Maatta? Why when we trade McCabe would we do that? The point of trading McCabe is to make room for the young guys not bring in another vet.

Feb. 16, 2023 at 11:58 a.m.

perrystreett

Always have 2018

Joined: May 2021

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Wilson is a top line winger. It will also take a disgusting overpay to get him, its unlikely he is ever traded

Feb. 16, 2023 at 12:07 p.m.

boilermaker

Thread Starter

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 221

Likes: 238

Thanks to all for the feedback on the Wilson trade. Back to the drawing board. But if you need a veteran D in McCabe down the road, let Chicago know.

Feb. 16, 2023 at 12:14 p.m.

boilermaker

Thread Starter

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 221

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Quoting: ChiHawk

I got the message about Wilson. Not a good proposal on my part.

Regarding Regula, somehow I accidentally buried him and couldn't retract it.

The proposed roster already has Mitchell, Roos, Vlasic and Phillips playing regularly. Without McCabe and Murphy, I added Maatta as a veteran placeholder for a year. He could be replaced with either Jack Johnson or Tinordi, or another cheap UFA defenseman.

Feb. 16, 2023 at 12:37 p.m.

ChiHawk

Joined: Apr. 2017

Posts: 19,029

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Quoting: boilermaker

Also, there is some speculation Korchinski will come up....I don't like it as I'm fine with him fine tuning his skills in the juniors, but the rumor is he might be brought up to the pros which means the Hawks.

Feb. 16, 2023 at 2:02 p.m.

homiedaclown

Joined: Jul. 2021

Posts: 7,136

Likes: 3,156

Maybe something similar from Buffalo
But probably not the Philly 2nd
Likely have to settle for the BUF or VGK pick

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