Blackhawks Manifesto

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Created by: Garak

Team: 2025-26 Chicago Blackhawks

Initial Creation Date: Feb. 4, 2024

Published: Feb. 4, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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This is why CHI won't buy your players or take your bad contracts for nothing: (Target 26-27 season, or later, to get back into the playoff picture)

Over the next three NHL drafts, we have FIVE 1st round picks. Three of which should be top 5 picks. We don't need "someone to play with Bedard." And i'm positive Bedard is smart enough to see how this patient and tactical approach will pay off.

We have plenty of guys to play with him, and plenty more on the way. So, unless you want to dump a contract or sell a player with a large contract and short term (3 years maximum) for super cheap just to get them off the books, we don't want it. We'll be just fine not giving up valuable assets for your scraps, reclamation projects, and expendable contracts.

I don't expect that we will actually get all of these players, it's just an example.

Also, we have a ton of other players that could easily break into the NHL roster and be important pieces of CHI's future. AND there are tons of UFA's coming up over the next 5 to 8 years that we can potentially snag. AND there will be tons of RFA's pricing themselves out of their current organizations, and/or other players that will need to be moved to make room for those RFA's 2nd and 3rd contracts. Ones that we can either buy cheap or receive more assets to take on.

CHI is not throwing away draft capital for any reason. They will either use the picks in the draft as intended, use them to trade up in the draft, or they will use late round picks to trade for players that have a high probability of CHI being able to profit on them down the road or be part of CHI's long term picture.

CHI isn't AZ. They aren't your dumping ground. They won't be fooled by snake oil tactics, overpaying for busts and problem contracts hoping the change of scenery will fix them. If you want/need to move a contract you are either going to pay for it or make concessions on your asking price. Period.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Nazar, Frank	2	$950,000
Moore, Oliver	3	$950,000
Lardis, Nick	3	$950,000
Rinzel, Sam	3	$950,000
Greene, Ryan	3	$950,000
Gajan, Adam	3	$950,000
Safonov, Ilya	3	$950,000
Misiak, Martin	3	$950,000
Kantserov, Roman	3	$950,000
Kelley, Connor	3	$950,000
Harding, Taige	3	$950,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Reichel, Lukas	1	$900,000
Vlasic, Alex	5	$5,500,000
Kaiser, Wyatt	1	$900,000
Kurashev, Philipp	1	$900,000
Söderblom, Arvid	1	$900,000
Anderson, Joey	1	$900,000
Guttman, Cole	1	$900,000

CREATED	YEARS	CAP HIT
Demidov, Ivan	3	$950,000
Yakemchuk, Carter	3	$950,000
Hagens, James	3	$950,000
Hensler, Logan	3	$950,000
McKenna, Gavin	3	$950,000

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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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
32	$98,500,000	$61,005,833	$0	$4,980,000	$37,494,167

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Reichel, Lukas $900,000$900,000 LW, C RFA	Bedard, Connor $950,000$950,000 ($3,500,000$4M) C RFA - 1	Demidov, Ivan $950,000$950,000
McKenna, Gavin $950,000$950,000	Hagens, James $950,000$950,000	Nazar, Frank $950,000$950,000 RW, C RFA - 1
Kurashev, Philipp $900,000$900,000 LW, C, RW RFA	Moore, Oliver $950,000$950,000 C RFA	Dach, Colton $825,000$825,000 C RFA - 1
Hayes, Gavin $896,667$896,667 LW RFA - 1	Safonov, Ilya $950,000$950,000 C RFA	Kantserov, Roman $950,000$950,000 RW RFA
Lardis, Nick $950,000$950,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Greene, Ryan $950,000$950,000 C RFA	Misiak, Martin $950,000$950,000 RW RFA
Savoie, Samuel $878,333$878,333 ($55,000$55K) LW RFA - 1	Ludwinski, Paul $931,667$931,667 C RFA - 1	Anderson, Joey $900,000$900,000 RW RFA
	Guttman, Cole $900,000$900,000 C RFA

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Vlasic, Alex $5,500,000$5,500,000 LD UFA - 5	Rinzel, Sam $950,000$950,000 RD RFA	Söderblom, Arvid $900,000$900,000 G RFA
Korchinski, Kevin $918,333$918,333 ($1,000,000$1M) LD RFA - 1	Hensler, Logan $950,000$950,000	Commesso, Drew $925,000$925,000 ($425,000$425K) G RFA - 1
Del Mastro, Ethan $855,833$855,833 LD RFA - 1	Yakemchuk, Carter $950,000$950,000	Gajan, Adam $950,000$950,000 G RFA
Kaiser, Wyatt $900,000$900,000 LD RFA	Kelley, Connor $950,000$950,000 RD RFA
Allan, Nolan $825,000$825,000 LD RFA - 1
Harding, Taige $950,000$950,000 LD RFA

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
	Mrázek, Petr $4,250,000$4,250,000 G UFA - 1
	Foligno, Nick $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, C, RW UFA - 1
	Murphy, Connor $4,400,000$4,400,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 1
	Jones, Seth $9,500,000$9,500,000 RD NMC UFA - 5
	Dickinson, Jason $4,250,000$4,250,000 C, LW UFA - 1

Feb. 4 at 10:38 a.m.

Snowhawk18

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Well said!

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Feb. 4 at 10:47 a.m.

Hawksguy81

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Edited Feb. 4 at 10:53 a.m.

Bravo!

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Feb. 4 at 11:21 a.m.

Earth

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Bring back the rating system so I can give this 5 stars.

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Feb. 6 at 10:52 a.m.

Jco5ta5

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I agree but I’m more impressed with the fact that you have a roster of 32 and are $37M under the cap. That’s a master class.

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Feb. 6 at 10:58 a.m.

Garak

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Quoting: Jco5ta5

I agree but I’m more impressed with the fact that you have a roster of 32 and are $37M under the cap. That’s a master class.

All we need is a couple large LTIRetired contracts and we could play all ELC's. lol

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Feb. 6 at 11:42 a.m.

Jco5ta5

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Quoting: Garak

All we need is a couple large LTIRetired contracts and we could play all ELC's. lol

Reunite Shea Weber and Ryan Ellis! LOL.

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Feb. 6 at 11:51 a.m.

Garak

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Quoting: Jco5ta5

Reunite Shea Weber and Ryan Ellis! LOL.

It actually kind of sucks the NHL is enforcing rules about trades involving LTIR players and contracts now. Like... If we can get something to take an injured player off another teams books that actually helps us, why not allow it? Same with teams trying to pad their LTIR pool... Just let them do it. If not for these kinds of cap/roster navigation tactics, team finances and CapFriendly wouldn't even be very fun or interesting.

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Feb. 6 at 11:51 a.m.

PaulKorea

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Great points

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Feb. 6 at 3:16 p.m.

TheRealKyleDavidson

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Great point. I'm wondering if you think the hawks could end up drafting Porter Martone next year?

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Feb. 6 at 3:28 p.m.

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Garak

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Quoting: TheRealKyleDavidson

Great point. I'm wondering if you think the hawks could end up drafting Porter Martone next year?

It is entirely possible, along with a handful of other exciting possible picks. I definitely wouldn't mind it.

Right now my ranking for the top of the draft next year are these guys roughly in this order, Hagens, Misa, Hensler, Martone, Spence, McQueen.

Feb. 7 at 4:39 p.m.

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CannaHawk

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Seth Jones contract looking soliddddddd for the next 5 years lololol

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Feb. 7 at 6:37 p.m.

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Garak

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Quoting: CannaHawk

Seth Jones contract looking soliddddddd for the next 5 years lololol

I mean... It's not ideal. But it's also not a problem.

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