Keep Tanking but make it fun

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Created by: rbrudner

Team: 2023-24 Chicago Blackhawks

Initial Creation Date: May 9, 2023

Published: May 9, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Unrealistic to be competitive next year, so sell the only assets you have and grab some big hitters/fighters to make the games fun for ticket holders. Losses are more fun to watch if you have guys dishing out hits and aren't afraid to drop the gloves. Mix that with a bit of magic from Bedard and you can have a real fun tank season. Also I'd be shielding Seth Jones' minutes hard to make him look great and see if there's any demand for him at the deadline or after a perceived successful season.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Söderblom, Arvid	2	$850,000
Kurashev, Philipp	1	$900,000
Jones, Caleb	3	$1,900,000
Kostin, Klim	3	$1,250,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Gudas, Radko	1	$3,750,000
Hathaway, Garnet	1	$2,000,000
Watson, Austin	1	$2,000,000
Sabourin, Scott	1	$800,000
Lemieux, Brendan	1	$800,000
Burroughs, Kyle	2	$1,200,000
Reaves, Ryan	1	$1,500,000

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

Trades

CHI

2024 5th round pick (TBL)
2024 6th round pick (TBL)

TBL

Johnson, Tyler ($2,500,000 retained)
2024 7th round pick (CHI)

Additional Details:

deadline deal after playing him with Bedard in sheltered minutes.

CHI

Deslauriers, Nicolas

PHI

Dickinson, Jason ($1,325,000 retained)

CHI

2024 5th round pick (SEA)

SEA

Blackwell, Colin

CHI

Kostin, Klim [RFA Rights]
2024 5th round pick (EDM)

EDM

Murphy, Connor ($2,200,000 retained)

CHI

Brown, Joshua

ARI

2023 7th round pick (CHI)

Buyouts

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

Retained Salary Transactions

Jake McCabe: $2,000,000 (50%)
Tyler Johnson: $2,500,000 (50%)
Jason Dickinson: $1,325,000 (50%)
Connor Murphy: $2,200,000 (50%)

Recapture Fees

Duncan Keith: $1,938,456

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

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
24	$82,500,000	$56,117,623	$0	$0	$26,382,377

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Kostin, Klim $1,250,000$1,250,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Bedard, Connor $950,000$950,000	Raddysh, Taylor $758,333$758,333 RW RFA - 1
Katchouk, Boris $758,333$758,333 LW RFA - 1	Guttman, Cole $950,000$950,000 C RFA - 1	Kurashev, Philipp $900,000$900,000 LW, C, RW RFA - 2
Hathaway, Garnet $2,000,000$2,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 2	Watson, Austin $2,000,000$2,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Deslauriers, Nicolas $1,750,000$1,750,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 3
Entwistle, Mackenzie $800,000$800,000 LW, C RFA - 1	Johnson, Reese $800,000$800,000 RW, C RFA - 1	Gust, David $762,500$762,500 RW UFA - 1
Lemieux, Brendan $800,000$800,000 LW, RW UFA - 1		Reaves, Ryan $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW UFA - 3
		Sabourin, Scott $800,000$800,000 RW UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Jones, Caleb $1,900,000$1,900,000 LD/RD 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
Burroughs, Kyle $1,200,000$1,200,000 LD/RD UFA - 3	Gudas, Radko $3,750,000$3,750,000 RD UFA - 3	Söderblom, Arvid $850,000$850,000 G RFA - 2
Tinordi, Jarred $1,250,000$1,250,000 LD UFA - 1	Zaitsev, Nikita $4,500,000$4,500,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 1
Brown, Joshua $1,275,000$1,275,000 RD UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Bedard, C.		Guttman, C.		Raddysh, T.
	Jones, S.		Kurashev, P.

Power Play 2
Bedard, C.		Kostin, K.		Katchouk, B.
	Jones, S.		Jones, C.

May 9, 2023 at 9:22 p.m.

Timmins_Is_Eating_Tims

Summary Writer

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bedard boutta put up 5 points with that line

May 9, 2023 at 9:24 p.m.

rbrudner

Thread Starter

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 58

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and all of them on the Power Play lol.

May 9, 2023 at 10:02 p.m.

Samsoc22

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Would rather have Nicky D

May 10, 2023 at 4:38 a.m.

Farabee

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Deslauriers has actual value around the league

May 10, 2023 at 7:11 a.m.

Garak

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How is this fun? You don't even have Reichel in the lineup, either.

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