Your talking about the team that threw away, Toews, Kane, Dach and Debrincat. I don't know what you were expecting.

They at least got Korchinski for DeBrincat and Nazar for Dach. I just have no idea what the plan is outside of get talented young players and bad players on bad contracts ->?->profit

And let Strome walk for nothing.

Don’t forget forsling too

Bowman was a disaster.

Not to mention sweeping multiple criminal cases under the rug. What a guy

Ummm, you're taking bad contracts and didn't take Huberdeau?

Rushing the rebuild is a great way to get into cap issues and get stuck in mediocrity. Also, we wouldn't have Bedard if we didn't do any of that stuff. We aren't "wasting his ELC" we are making sure we can sign everyone before we add so we don't put ourselves into a tough position down the road. It's smart. You're just being impatient.

No one was "thrown away".

Congrats, your negativity was like a neon sign to all the haters to come outa the woodwork like cockroaches to have a dump on the Hawks party. Feel any better? No, hmmm that’s strange usually toxic attitudes make everything better.

So what you are really saying is that you don't pay any attention to the Hawks and you are just angry for no reason. KD has publicly talked about the plans and direction of the Hawks NUMEROUS times. He is not hiding it. This was a complete tear down rebuild. You wanna chance at winning multiple cups? You don't just get 1 good prospect and then blow your salary cap on free agents.

Hawks are stacking multiple high picks/prospects. Not all of them will pan out. Now that we have a large pool of top prospects (including upcoming draft) KD is looking at spreading out that window so players don't all come up at once. You will see multiple of those prospects get their shot in NHL in next 2 seasons. That is going to give you an idea of what you have and what holes you need to fill with trades/free agents.

Hawks have a lot of center prospects right now. If you sign a bunch of wings to big contracts what happens when those center prospects turn out better as wings. Now you have screwed everything up.

This is why Hawks are resigning guys like Dickinson and Foligno. They are steadying veteran presences on the team. The Hawks have plenty of picks and another 2 or 3 mid round picks aren't going to make a big difference. You start finding the stop gap players that will get you through to the prospects.

The reason the Hawks and rebuilding teams take on bad contracts is so they fill a gap and come with other assets.

I dont think Canucks were serious about shipping out Brock Boeser, if so it would have happened. They just wanted someone to overpay. Plus, if the Hawks trade for him, also sign Bertuzzi (was never signing here) Domi (liked it but wanted a longer deal on a winning team) and Dmitry Orlov (wasnt signing on a bad hawks). Plus Hall, Foligno, AA, and Bedard. This team would still not make playoffs. But they would be against the cap for the next several years, probably wouldnt of had room to have Vlasic and Korchinski on the NHL roster and wouldnt know what they have there. It would be all around more entertaining hockey now, but handcuffing ourselves down the road.