If we arent rushing the rebuild why cant we keep taking on bad contracts

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Created by: Kyle_Davidson

Team: 2023-24 Chicago Blackhawks

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 6, 2024

Published: Jan. 6, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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Reports say that the hawks are not going to be going after a big free agent player this offseason and are planning on building through the draft. That’s fantastic that they are sticking with the plan and what not, but why can’t they take on some bad contracts and get draft capital like that. We don’t have any players on the roster that are worthy of a first round pick in a trade, and if we are rebuilding getting firsts is definitely still a priority despite how many we have coming.

Trades

CHI

Campbell, Jack
2024 1st round pick (EDM)
2025 1st round pick (EDM)

EDM

Mrázek, Petr ($1,900,000 retained)
2024 3rd round pick (OTT)
2025 4th round pick (NYR)

CHI

2026 1st round pick (TOR)

TOR

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

Buyouts

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

Retained Salary Transactions

Jake McCabe: $2,000,000 (50%)
Petr Mrázek: $1,900,000 (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
2024
2025
2026

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
21	$83,500,000	$78,170,957	$0	$5,945,000	$5,329,043

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Reichel, Lukas $925,000$925,000 ($505,000$505K) LW, C RFA - 1	Dickinson, Jason $2,650,000$2,650,000 C, LW UFA - 1	Kurashev, Philipp $2,250,000$2,250,000 LW, C, RW RFA - 2
Donato, Ryan $2,000,000$2,000,000 LW, C, RW UFA - 2	Blackwell, Colin $1,200,000$1,200,000 C, RW UFA - 1	Johnson, Reese $800,000$800,000 RW, C RFA - 1
Entwistle, Mackenzie $800,000$800,000 LW, C RFA - 1	Guttman, Cole $950,000$950,000 C RFA - 1	Seney, Brett $775,000$775,000 C, LW UFA - 1
Hardman, Mike $800,000$800,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Philp, Luke $775,000$775,000 C UFA - 1	Gust, David $762,500$762,500 RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Vlasic, Alex $916,667$916,667 ($850,000$850K) LD UFA - 1	Korchinski, Kevin $918,333$918,333 ($1,000,000$1M) LD RFA - 3	Söderblom, Arvid $962,500$962,500 G RFA - 2
Megna, Jaycob $762,500$762,500 LD UFA - 1	Crevier, Louis $850,833$850,833 ($57,500$58K) RD RFA - 1	Campbell, Jack $5,000,000$5,000,000 G M-NTC UFA - 4
Phillips, Isaak $859,167$859,167 ($32,500$32K) LD RFA - 1	Zaitsev, Nikita $4,500,000$4,500,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Tinordi, Jarred $1,250,000$1,250,000 LD UFA - 1	Foligno, Nick $4,000,000$4,000,000 LW, C, RW UFA - 1
	Bedard, Connor $950,000$950,000 ($3,500,000$4M) C RFA - 3
	Jones, Seth $9,500,000$9,500,000 RD NMC UFA - 7
	Hall, Taylor $6,000,000$6,000,000 LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 2
	Johnson, Tyler $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, C, LW M-NTC UFA - 1
	Athanasiou, Andreas $4,250,000$4,250,000 LW, RW UFA - 2
	Beauvillier, Anthony $4,150,000$4,150,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
	Anderson, Joey $800,000$800,000 RW RFA - 1
	Raddysh, Taylor $758,333$758,333 RW RFA - 1

Jan. 6 at 11:51 a.m.

FireShanahanTrelivingKeefe

Joined: Aug. 2023

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TML would take that and run , think you under value Katchouk.

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Jan. 6 at 11:58 a.m.

CoryTheGreat

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TOR would accept

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Jan. 6 at 12:00 p.m.

YeahRighttt

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I agree with your thought process but not the execution. I think both trades leave too much on the table for the Hawks. Selling too low is how Bowman wrecked the team.

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Jan. 6 at 12:15 p.m.

exo2769

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We're soo injured right now. I don't mind taking a bad contract or two so we can have NHLers play, but I can't see trading away Murphy with no one coming back. I'd do that Campbell trade though. Doubt EDM would.

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Jan. 6 at 12:22 p.m.

wojohawk

Joined: Jun. 2018

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I would tweak both trades a bit. I would not include the Ott 3rd....Campbell contract is really bad like sniffing 2 1st on it's own bad and odds w/ McDavid is neither are going to be all that early and Mrazek has had a really good season and has some sort of value too. I would maybe throw in the NYR 4th in '25 and would consider making the '25 1st the '26

Toronto deal needs to be expanded to include a RHD going back to Chicago....think both teams would want that to some extent. Liljegren, Timmins, or Niemela would be the most interesting and the Hawks could probably send a young LHD back (as not all of Phillips/DelMastro/Allen/Kaiser will have a path to the NHL (especially with Vlassic looking solid this year in the NHL and Korchinski likely to grab another LHD NHL roster spot.

Jan. 6 at 1:26 p.m.

Hawksguy81

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Hawks don't need to be sending picks back to Edmonton if they are sending Mrazak half retained. A 1st for Murphy half retained is selling low as well. Don't like that deal for the Hawks either.

Jan. 6 at 1:27 p.m.

Brad_Treliving

Joined: Oct. 2021

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I actually like the Leafs deal, we accept. I do doubt the Hawks retain but obviously a good touch

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