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Forum: Armchair-GMFri. at 4:46 p.m.
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Forum: Armchair-GMFri. at 3:33 p.m.
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Jco5ta5</b></div><div>Let me explain myself poster formerly known as Garak.

Here is a list of the FA I put into groupings.

<strong>Too old to sign/don't fit in with Hawks</strong>: John Tavares, Jamie Benn, Nicklas Backstrom, Brent Burns (will be 40), Claude Giroux, Jeff Petry, TJ Oshie, Cam Atkinson, Robin Lehner, Ryan Suter (40)
<strong>Will be resigned by their own team</strong>: Marner (whoever he is traded to), Rantanen, Crosby, Draisitl, Hedman, Ekblad, Provorov, Boeser, Marchand, Sheshterkin, Adin Hill, Shea Theodore, Noah Dobson, Evan Bouchard, K'Andre Miller, Bowen Byrum, maybe Konecny Jake Oettinger.
<strong>Players who just aren't good anymore</strong>: Evgeny Kuznetsov, Nate Schmidt, Yanni Gourde, Cal Petersen, Ville Husso, Christian Dvorak, AA, Robby Fabbri, Jake McCabe, Adam Larsson, Alex Iafallo, Jake Allen, Brandon Tanev, Vitek Vanecek, Cody Ceci, Joel Armia, Radek Faksa.

<strong>Potential fits for Hawks</strong>: *caveat is some of these may be resigned by their own team depending on cap situation* Ryan Johansen, Dmitry Orlov, Taylor Hall, Brock Nelson, Nikolah Ehlers, Neal Pionk, Andrew Mangiapane, Pavel Buchnevich, Esa Lindell, Andrei Kuzmenko, Travis Konecny, Jaccob Slavin, Kyle Palmeiri, Reilly Smith, Mikael Granlund, Jakob Chychrun, Sam Bennett, Carter Verhaeghe, Frank Vatrano, Alex Kerfoot, Gustav Nyquist, Yegor Sharangovich, Gabe Vilardi.

This is 60+ players.

That said, I do see that there are some very nice names on the list. But there aren't really many big fish and the Hawks are 1 of 32 teams who will also be going after these players. Some of the players above also don't necessarily fit (like many of the goalies or LD). Some of them will be super expensive (Bennett, Konecny). So that's where I was coming from. If you look at that list and you think there are some great names and game changers there then I respect that.</div></div>

Taylor Hall is on that list? I hope Chicago goes out and signs him. He would be a good fit next to Bedard in the short term.
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