Blackhawks 2025-2026 General Comments

[boilermaker]

Metalhead wrote:

’m just hoping for ONE “holy crap” surprise jump in skill level at this event.
Any more than that would be gravy.

I’m just hoping no one gets injured at this showcase. I remember a few years ago some goon from Minnesota took out a Hawks player. Don’t remember who.

[Metalhead]

boilermaker wrote:

Hawks roster for Kurvers showcase.

Thanks for this.
I’m just hoping for ONE “holy crap” surprise jump in skill level at this event.
Any more than that would be gravy.

[Metalhead]

Assman22 wrote:

Still really slow in this forum.

I’ll try shifting some content to this thread from when I was talking to myself back in June, July and August.

Capwages still shows a 25 man roster for the Hawks, so I put together a potential roster of 23.

The 25/26 NHL Cap Floor is $70.6 million.

(13) forwards:
5.50 Bertuzzi
5.50 Burakovsky
5.40 Teuvo
4.50 Foligno
4.25 Dickinson
4.04 Mikheyev
4.00 Donato
2.00 Lafferty
1.20 Reichel (only because he is not waivers exempt, might be gone via trade or waiver claim)
0.95 Bedard
0.95 Nazar
0.95 Greene
0.94 Moore
40.18 total

(8) defense
7.86 Weber (Hawks acquired his contract to help them get to the cap floor)
4.60 Vlasic
4.40 Murphy
2.80 Kaiser (RFA without arb rights, actual price depends on length of contract)
0.92 Korchinski
0.98 Levshunov
0.91 Rinzel
0.86 Del Mastro (these bottom 4 could be part of a Rockford Shuttle system incl Allan, Harding, etc.)
23.33 total

(2) goalies
4.50 Knight
2.75 Soderblom
7.25 total (obv depends on status/health of Brossoit: they could roster 3 goalies for a bit and LTIR Weber if Brossoit is healthy)

(1) retained salary
2.50 Jones

(1) buyout
3.23 Brodie

$76.59 million total, $5.99 million above the cap floor.

[boilermaker]

Hawks roster for Kurvers showcase.

[Metalhead]

boilermaker wrote:

Thanks Metalhead.

????

[Assman22]

Still really slow in this forum. I was hoping it’d be a couple pages per day like HB still was even a few weeks ago.

[boilermaker]

boilermaker wrote:

Let’s give it a try.

Thanks Metalhead.

[boilermaker]

Metalhead wrote:

Highlight Mr. Ricochet’s response to you, then hit “quote”.
Type your response.

Let’s give it a try.

[Metalhead]

boilermaker wrote:

Another thing about posting here. You can’t reply to a comment that already has been replied to.

Try the “quote” button instead.

Highlight Mr. Ricochet’s response to you, then hit “quote”.
Type your response.

I did this above to a portion of your post about stacking responses.

[Metalhead]

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