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Created by: esnhl

Team: 2023-24 Chicago Blackhawks

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 3, 2023

Published: Jul. 3, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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One or more of Blackwell, R. Johnson, or Entwistle will have to go during the offseason. They're talented players, but we have way too many bottom 6 players currently and in the system

Personally, I say take a flyer of Zadina since he'll be signed for 2 seasons and if it doesn't work out just don't qualify him after the 2 seasons or place him on waivers. He was playing 4th line on Detroit too, give him some minutes and see how he does.

Casey Fitzgerald is a two way contract to provide some depth. Doesn't have to be him, but I say might be worth signing a RD.

Kevin Korchinski will play for the first part of the season before the World Juniors and then after the world juniors he'll come back or join a contender in the WHL, similar to what Dylan Guenther did this season. Keep Zaitsev in the AHL or rotate him in and out with Tinordi.

Cole Guttman got shoulder surgery, so he can start of in the AHL, recover, and then come back to the NHL. ESPN report stated he's suppose to be out of hockey activities for 4 months back in March, so he could rejoin the NHL roster on opening day, but we'll see.

Players to potentially be moved at TDL (depending on how their season goes):
-Taylor Raddysh (RW) - making below league min and was a 20 goal scorer last season
-Taylor Hall (LW) - retain 1/2 his salary for a contender after having a strong season playing with Bedard
- Jason Dickenson (C) - with 1/2 retained salary would be a nice add for a contender
-Perry/Foligno - 1/2 retained salary for a veteran bottom 6 player could be desired.

Also, can I say I'm surprised we didn't buyout Zaitsev? He looked like a prime candidate to be bought out, especially since reaching the floor is not an issue by any means.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
Bedard, Connor		3	$950,000

RFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Kurashev, Philipp		3	$1,950,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Fitzgerald, Casey		1	$775,000

Trades

CHI

Zadina, Filip

DET

Claim him off of waivers

CHI

One or more of Blackwell, R. Johnson, or Entwistle will have to go during the offseason. They're talented players, but we have way too many bottom 6 players currently.

ARI

Buyouts

Josh Bailey: $2,666,667
Brett Connolly: $1,166,667
Henrik Borgström: $183,334

Retained Salary Transactions

Jake McCabe: $2,000,000 (50%)

Recapture Fees

Duncan Keith: $1,938,456

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2024
2025
2026

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$83,500,000	$66,178,457	$0	$2,712,500	$17,321,543

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Hall, Taylor $6,000,000$6,000,000 LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 2	Bedard, Connor $950,000$950,000 C RFA - 3	Raddysh, Taylor $758,333$758,333 RW RFA - 1
Reichel, Lukas $925,000$925,000 ($505,000$505K) LW, C RFA - 1	Athanasiou, Andreas $4,250,000$4,250,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Zadina, Filip $1,100,000$1,100,000 RW, LW RFA - 1
Kurashev, Philipp $1,950,000$1,950,000 LW, C, RW RFA - 2	Dickinson, Jason $2,650,000$2,650,000 C, LW UFA - 1	Johnson, Tyler $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, C, LW M-NTC UFA - 1
Katchouk, Boris $758,333$758,333 LW RFA - 1	Donato, Ryan $2,000,000$2,000,000 LW, C, RW UFA - 2	Perry, Corey $775,000$775,000 ($325,000$325K) RW UFA - 1

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	Söderblom, Arvid $962,500$962,500 G RFA - 2
Korchinski, Kevin $918,333$918,333 ($1,000,000$1M) LD RFA - 3	Murphy, Connor $4,400,000$4,400,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 3	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	Tinordi, Jarred $1,250,000$1,250,000 LD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Foligno, Nick $4,000,000$4,000,000 LW, C, RW UFA - 1
Zaitsev, Nikita $4,500,000$4,500,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Hall, T.		Bedard, C.		Raddysh, T.
	Reichel, L.		Jones, S.

Power Play 2
Kurashev, P.		Athanasiou, A.		Johnson, T.
	Korchinski, K.		Zadina, F.

Penalty Kill 1
	Katchouk, B.	Dickinson, J.
	Vlasic, A.	Jones, S.

Penalty Kill 2
	Donato, R.	Perry, C.
	Phillips, I.	Murphy, C.

Jul. 3, 2023 at 1:52 p.m.

exo2769

Joined: Jul. 2015

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I'm good with most of the above. I'd send Korchinski back down to the WHL. He was on a team with literally (5) NHL 1st rounders and (3) 2nd rounders, plus others. Just a completely stacked team. Have him go back and continue to learn his 2-way game. We'll see if Dylan Guenther and/or Brad Lambert go back or not.

I didn't realize Zadina was waived until you posted this. Good catch and I'm all for rolling the dice. Not really a ton of downside.

Jul. 3, 2023 at 1:53 p.m.

bro051

Blackhawks

Joined: Jun. 2022

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Are we sure Korchinski is going to play up? We may see him for 9 or less games, I think. Not sure they want to burn a year of his ELC if they don't have to.

Then, we have 1 retained slot used already (McCabe) so only two players can be traded with salary retention. It may be likely that Hall is moved at 50% retained but both Perry & Foligno stay.

Jul. 3, 2023 at 3:53 p.m.

LivingAnew

Joined: May 2023

Posts: 403

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Yes, I, too, was surprised we didn't buy out Zaitsev.

Jul. 3, 2023 at 5:38 p.m.

esnhl

Thread Starter

Joined: Nov. 2022

Posts: 41

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Quoting: bro051

I wouldn't be surprised if Korchinski played in the NHL next season, or at least a part of it. KD isn't going to rush him, so say after a 15 game trial he looks like he needs more time he'll give him more time in the WHL. Seattle still should be pretty good next season.

Jul. 6, 2023 at 9:51 a.m.

bro051

Blackhawks

Joined: Jun. 2022

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Quoting: esnhl

I'd still say it would be beneficial to have him play 9 games before sending him back to Seattle. Play 9 games, get a feel for the big leagues then go back and polish his game further in Seattle.

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