Hawks Search For Right Fit Beside Bedard

Finding Bedsy some linemates seem a limited discussion and limited in choices.
Next year you get Frondell and that aids him.
Bedsy has always been the generator, and like L’il Frankie, he is a fine stand alone player.

We have to have the patience throughout the rebuild and subsequent improvement to not getting impatient and pulling triggers until we really look closer to a contender. No worries we wait.

Also the idea of “using the 3 2026 seconds (Hawks, Isles, Toronto), and the 3rd and 4th as trade bait to acquire veterans is never going to land you any really good veteran, unless it ends up the hawks are giving a current rostered player, a pick, and a veteran that isn’t already penciled in as a keeper.
Not this year!
This draft prognosticator sees this draft as one of the best of the decade…not at the top end…but one where the 3rd round (and the 2nd rd.) is going to less of a downward curve that is written about the cumulative draft classes.
Check out my 7 round 2025 mock as the first 100 selections the largest multi-country group we have seen in years. You can search:
2026 NHL mock draft. Lines .com
The link didn’t take, so
By keeping the majority of the picks, The Blackhawks will be able to snatch really excellent long term future NHLers who the specifically draft TO wait for them.
You could get replacements for the pieces Kyle already drafted whose futures may require trades, and this is a perfect draft to get replacements.

TheREALWiz wrote:

Also the idea of “using the 3 2026 seconds (Hawks, Isles, Toronto), and the 3rd and 4th as trade bait to acquire veterans is never going to land you any really good veteran, unless it ends up the hawks are giving a current rostered player, a pick, and a veteran that isn’t already penciled in as a keeper.

Agree Wiz, Like I wrote on our main thread, we’ll have to trade picks and prospects down the road to get something of value back. List of quality free agents will be drying up in coming years due to the cap rising, IMO. Next summer, I can see another accumulation of young talent using the 2-1st and 3-2nd round picks. Maybe even packaging a couple of 2nds for an end of the round 1st if KFC targets a player that is available.

Frondell should help next year. They are likely to still have Donato, Burakovsky, Bertuzzi and Teuvo next season too. Maybe one goes at the 2027 TDL. If Kantserov comes over I think they are likely to extend Mikheyev for a year or two. Foligno probably retires and with Lafferty and Dickinson leaving one way or the other, at least two or three forward spots open up. Maybe a high 2026 pick will be one of them with Moore, Greene, Lardis and possibly Kantserov competing for full time spots.

Eventually there probably be a big trade. It depends what the Hawks need, who is available and what the other team wants. Hard to predict.

The Bruins spectators are always aware and desiring big hits like the one superstar former Hawk Zadorov’s provided.
I watched with sound last evening and it was clear that the crowd reacted to many Blackhawk checks by their dee corps.
I have to think they left with the opinion the Blackhawk back end was going to be big & boisterous for the next decade.

And Arty, well, I think it is early to start feeling that RIGHT NOW, that Zeev Buium is closer to NHL…I am too busy to be Pete prime time, or that Beckett Sennecke and Ivan Demidov might have the capacity as play now forwards.

I remember when the early opinions on Trevor Zegras had so many convince Kirby, Cozens and Caufield were not as good rookie NHLers.

Things change. Arty has so much to grasp and integrate but there is passion, high end speed, stick and a big kid who is willing to do anything out there.
I can wait.

(i started typing here…got called away, and everythiung disappeared and this time I didn’t start off line so I had a copy. I am too busy in retirement to re-write opinions!!!)