The Blackhawks made it clear, both by their on-ice performance and by the messaging from the front office, that changes need to be made.
Multiple reports in the past few days have indicated that Blackhawks general manager Kyle Davidson is looking to make a roster shake-up move on the trade market. Recently, at the NHL GM meetings, Davidson reportedly reached out to all 31 other teams, alerting them that the Blackhawks were open for business.
After a 5-13-1 start to the season, anything and everything seems to be on the table for Davidson to try to make improvements to his group.
When Davidson met with the Chicago media on Wednesday, he opted to give a sort of “state of the union” regarding the organization and lining up where things stand and where they want to go moving forward. It includes adding players with “a certain level of experience” to insulate the young core group of players currently struggling to take those next steps in their development as NHL players.
Blackhawks on the block
According to multiple reports, the Blackhawks have a number of veteran players on the trade market right now, along with some of their high-value draft picks. Some have indicated that teams have asked the Blackhawks about trading young players like Frank Nazar, Anton Frondell, and Oliver Moore, but that the Blackhawks would not want to move those players, ideally.
Teuvo Teräväinen is one of the veterans the Blackhawks are reportedly shopping on the trade market. Teräväinen is in the final year of his current contract ($5.4 million AAV) and holds an eight-team no-trade clause.
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1 Comment
Brandon
Great read Mario as always. I’ve been driving the Whitecloud and Tippett trade train for awhile now and would love to see both but I think the price for Tippet might be too much for their liking unless Philly changes what they want (picks instead of young players to help right now).
I’d be fine with taking a chance on Miroshnichenko for draft picks since we have the need for a player with skill and have more than enough draft picks.
Hague is an interesting name I’d be very interested in adding. He fits the window of the kind of young but experienced players this team craves right now. He brings the physical edge they desperately need as well. I would consider swapping Kaiser or Vlasic in a deal for him.
Zacha would be a perfect fit for this team right now as a #2 center and push Nazar or Frondell to the wing. I just don’t see a trade happening unless they can acquire someone like Larkin to replace him first. Then it’s a matter of his contract because he’s going to want to be PAID this summer. Probably max term. If you could sign him for less years and more money I’d be more interested.
Changes are coming for this team. It’ll be interesting to see who they add and what price they pay. My concern is other GMs will see that Kyle is in dire straights at the moment and will try and take advantage of him. These could be a make or break trades for his tenure as GM.