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What their rebuild could have been

Created by: LaCurveASlaf
Team: 2022-23 Chicago Blackhawks
Initial Creation Date: Apr. 2, 2023
Published: Apr. 2, 2023
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Looking back at this trade, it was a huge mistake for the current rebuilding process the Hawks are trying to do.

In retrospective, who won that trade?

(For clarifications: those are not lines I would line up)
Trades
CHI
  1. Bean, Jake
  2. Boqvist, Adam
  3. Jiricek, David
  4. Sillinger, Cole
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(Chicago's 2nd round pick was traded by CBJ to CAR for Jake Bean)
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2023
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Apr. 2, 2023 at 1:44 p.m.
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The only real piece that's the issue is that they could have had Jones for nothing if they waited 1 year. The Hawks were going to be the highest bidder with that contract anyway. This way they could have had Jiricek. He's looking to be real good. No issues with Boqvist being gone nor missing out on Sillinger.
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Apr. 2, 2023 at 3:40 p.m.
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The only real piece that's the issue is that they could have had Jones for nothing if they waited 1 year. The Hawks were going to be the highest bidder with that contract anyway. This way they could have had Jiricek. He's looking to be real good. No issues with Boqvist being gone nor missing out on Sillinger.


Yeah. In hindsight, I don't care about losing Boqvist too much. But, Jiricek definitely would've been nice to have. With Sillinger, it's less about him specifically and more so about all of the players we could have drafted with that pick... Coronato, Rosen, Othmann, Bolduc, Lucius, Wallstedt, Lysell, Bourgault, Johnston, Samoskevich, etc. Or, if they really wanted to trade that pick, they could've probably packaged it with something else and got a really good roster player or a high end NHL ready prospect.
Apr. 2, 2023 at 4:51 p.m.
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Yeah. In hindsight, I don't care about losing Boqvist too much. But, Jiricek definitely would've been nice to have. With Sillinger, it's less about him specifically and more so about all of the players we could have drafted with that pick... Coronato, Rosen, Othmann, Bolduc, Lucius, Wallstedt, Lysell, Bourgault, Johnston, Samoskevich, etc. Or, if they really wanted to trade that pick, they could've probably packaged it with something else and got a really good roster player or a high end NHL ready prospect.


I hear ya. I guess from my perspective...I honestly wanted Sillinger with that pick. Sooo, it's a bit hard for me to make the argument. With that said I 100% believe Jarmo is ruining this kid. Shoulda stayed in Juniors an extra year. Yet another example of why teams shouldn't send the draft year picks to the NHL right away.
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Apr. 2, 2023 at 5:36 p.m.
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I hear ya. I guess from my perspective...I honestly wanted Sillinger with that pick. Sooo, it's a bit hard for me to make the argument. With that said I 100% believe Jarmo is ruining this kid. Shoulda stayed in Juniors an extra year. Yet another example of why teams shouldn't send the draft year picks to the NHL right away.


Sillinger is a huge point of contention for our fanbase. He absolutely earned the spot out of training camp in fall 2021. But it easy to see him getting overwhelmed by mid year. In hindsight, they should’ve sent him to World Juniors and then Cleveland (as he was drafted out of the USHL he didn’t have to go back to juniors, although Medicine Hat owned his rights so he theoretically could have). He’s given quotes already about how happy he is in Cleveland right now, between getting to play with his brother and also because it’s just a relief.
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Apr. 2, 2023 at 8:12 p.m.
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Sillinger is a huge point of contention for our fanbase. He absolutely earned the spot out of training camp in fall 2021. But it easy to see him getting overwhelmed by mid year. In hindsight, they should’ve sent him to World Juniors and then Cleveland (as he was drafted out of the USHL he didn’t have to go back to juniors, although Medicine Hat owned his rights so he theoretically could have). He’s given quotes already about how happy he is in Cleveland right now, between getting to play with his brother and also because it’s just a relief.


Thats good to hear, I like him and hope he can make it work and become a mainstay in the NHL.
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Apr. 3, 2023 at 7:05 a.m.
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I hear ya. I guess from my perspective...I honestly wanted Sillinger with that pick. Sooo, it's a bit hard for me to make the argument. With that said I 100% believe Jarmo is ruining this kid. Shoulda stayed in Juniors an extra year. Yet another example of why teams shouldn't send the draft year picks to the NHL right away.


For sure. Sillinger was a reasonable pick there and I probably would've taken him as well. I'm not saying we wouldn't have picked him, I'm just saying there were so many options at 12th overall that could've been very good for CHI's rebuild.
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Apr. 3, 2023 at 12:08 p.m.
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I think the front office was willing to give up Boqvist because they were high or Mitchell and Beaudin. Looks like they missed the mark on them, making this trade look even worse when you take that into consideration.
People saying we could have got S. Jones for free a year later I think that's wrong. Dallas was also in the mix and I think he was going to be moved no matter what. Now, Hawks could have signed Dougie Hamilton that offseason without giving anything up.

All that being said, I like Seth Jones. I think he's better than he gets credit for, and having a veteran like that will be good for the young D guys coming up.
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