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Spellacy is an energy guy with speed and hopefully enough skill. If he develops more than that big win for the Blackhawks, but if he’s a 25 top 35 point forward who is one of 3 forwards who tilt the ice in our favor on a regular basis it’s a great draft pick.
Oh and by the way it took 60 games to get to 43 points last season.
They are 17 games ahead of schedule.
They need 9 wins to match last year’s point total in 39 games.
I’d say that’s pretty good progress, and the crazy thing is, which i don’t expect, if they make a playoff run they have 2 rookies that may be joining us at the end of the season. 2 more in the Rock,
That’s a great spot to be in after KD traded players to get 3 first round picks in 2022.You know SFG i don’t cheer about the moves he makes, what i do appreciate is they make sense, this is the first time the franchise has ever had a plan in place and stuck to it.
Like your example in the 2000s there was no plan it was blind dumb luck they built a SC team with so many moving parts in the front office.
I’m the opposite of you i want young potential over old crusty vets who have hit their ceiling.
The pro-Davidson crowd cheers every move he makes. The take on the latest move is that the Hawks have to clear roster spots for all their prospects. If this is the motivation, I guess there is no point in hoping for Free Agents in the summer or trades of prospect/picks for players that can help now. I wonder what the improvement here would have been if Davidson had signed Orlov, Dvorak, and Jenault in the offseason to augment the current roster. I thought that would have been a reasonable move that would have bought time for the prospect to patiently develop in the AHL while winning more at the NHL level. The teams that signed them are rebuilding and are ahead of the Hawks in the standings at the same time. Grier in particular is likely to be the GM of the year if they eek into the playoffs. The returns for 2 former first rounders is underwhelming. Hard to believe the return could have been less. One of the results of going to the WJC in Minnesota is seeing how many good prospects the other teams have in the pipeline while their NHL rosters are currently ahead of the Hawks. Washington, Montreal, and San Jose have some studs on the way amongst others. I am not sure what Allan will ultimately become but in his defense I believe he has played under 5 NHL head coaches and at least 4 AHL head coaches since he was drafted.
Actually the Blackhawks KFC started their rebuild after SJ, Habs Ducks and if you take a deeper look at all those teams what are they missing that the Blackhawks aren’t, a stable of legitimate young defenseman.
Habs had to go the route of trading 2 first round futures to secure a good defenseman.
SJ only has a 2 to 3 promising young Dmen.
Ducks same position
How can SJ be ahead when their best dmen are 33,34 and 34 years old? Knights looking better than Askerov
Actually the Blackhawks have the best young goalie of the bunch
Everyone including you says you can’t build through the draft and I’ve always said no NHL has really given it a 100% chance until now.
If you want instant gratification go buy something. And the best part is we have 7 first round picks developing while those other teams that are ahead of us only have 3, so no depth for those teams. 2 more next year.
Surprised Allan was traded away today, but now he’s given a chance with another org, wonder if Taige Harding passed him up.
Another cool stat i heard last night, Blackhawks rookies this season have scored a total of 68 points to lead the league.
No Bedard, no Nazar, and they have won 4 in a row.
7 1st round picks developing
Kantserov dominating the KHL 2nd round pick.To have guys contribute like Greene a 2nd round pick, Lardis 3rd round pick
This is fricking awesome, i can’t believe we are 3 less wins away from a playoff spot.
Arty is going to have to put his big pants on one day, more concerned about getting checked instead of making a solid play to get the puck out of the zone.
Defensively, he’s still pretty brutal. Everyone loving his game of late must be referring to his offensive output only.
He’s doing something the coaches like a lot, he’s played a minimum of 22 minutes a game 10 out of the last 12.
Arty is going to have to put his big pants on one day, more concerned about getting checked instead of making a solid play to get the puck out of the zone.
I don’t understand if Arty is supposedly a good skater why didn’t he just out skate the forward?
The penalty call looked lame
