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how great Knight is playing
Many of us here and and at the other site have hoped and/or postulated for a Sharp like trade that would bring a key player to the team to complement the rest of the roster. Perhaps the Knight trade was this decade’s Sharp trade. Granted, different positions of course, and a nobody was traded away for Sharp versus a name like Seth Jones. But considering Jones wanted out and was going through the motions here half the time AND the Hawks got a 1st round pick in the deal that may turn out pretty good, it was a great trade.
This is post 1009 on this forum topic. Counting backyards from here, post 1000 was submitted by Coach Frenchy. Congratulations, sir, and well deserved.
Let’s not forget the cap floor. It will probably be around 78M next season. Puckpedia shows the Hawks at 50M with 15 contracts for next season. 28M to reach the floor. Giving 98 his 12M leaves 16M to reach the floor. Maybe a couple more guys on ELC’s among Frondell/Lardis/Kantserov make the team. 18 contracts 14M to reach the floor.
Mikheyev resigned IMO at 5M. Maybe on D, Murphy also re-upped or a UFA at 5M to provide some veteran depth on the blue line. Still 4M short of the floor. I wouldn’t be surprised if KFC trades for another LTIR candidate ala Weber. Tory Krug or Pietroangelo would eat up 6-8M.
Hmmm with Nazar and now possibly Burakovsky out, not good for the Blackhawks against a high scoring team
Pessimist. 5-4 Hawks.
He’s still got jump. I wonder if 2x$3.5 would get it done?
Hawks will have a ton of cap space just to meet the floor next year. 2 x5M I think is more likely. Considering he may be mentoring Kantserov, it’s affordable and worth it,
How’d we ever trade for Mik if he has a 12 team no trade list?
I read at the time of the trade, Mik had to waive the 12 team no trade clause. I suppose he decided that he needed a fresh start elsewhere, or KD or his agent Milstein talked him into waiving.
All of the above is true Frenchy, and I don’t think you even mentioned Nazar. Let’s hope that injury heals in a hurry and he returns to form soon. He’s been held scoreless the last several games. If Franky gets going there’s one more weapon on the team for opponents to worry about.
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Frenchy’s most recent column appearing on the home page today Tuesday, not on the forum topic page.
5 Reasons the Blackhawks’ Hot Start Is Real — and Built to Last
Frenchy, also FWIW, personally I prefer to comment when your columns appear on the forum page. But I read on the Rangers thread a few weeks ago that Aguello and maybe Meltzer are the only ones who have administrative rights to add a column to the forum page. If they don’t have time, it stays on the home page. Comments written there are often delayed for review prior to being posted. Comments posted there get more frequently lost too in my experience. So I dislike posting on the home page.
Over on the home page, good Week 5 Recap by the way.
Huge win by the Blackhawks and only two comments about the game… where is everyone? This is a three-game winning streak and nobody seems excited? Really strange.
I don’t know Coach. On the old Hockey Buzz site the Hawks forum was known as the Board of Doom. Even during the Cup runs, people found a lot to complain about. Maybe there are a lot of “fans” here like that.
Also the Bears played Sunday at the same time as the Hawks so maybe the hockey game wasn’t widely viewed. And this site still has its quirks regarding downtime and posts being lost.
It’s definitely not anything to do with your content.
Somebody alluded to PDO here recently, I think. Hawks PDO is currently 102.9. Eventually they will regress to the mean of 100.0. But, no doubt the team is playing better. Let’s hope they continue to improve and continue enjoying watching the games.
<p style=”line-height: 27px !important; transition: all;” data-userway-s17-styled=”true” data-line-height-feature-value=”1″>Blackhawks ranked 5th, 5 on 5 goals for.
<p style=”line-height: 27px !important; transition: all;” data-userway-s17-styled=”true” data-line-height-feature-value=”1″>It will be interesting to see how that plays out through the season as it goes on. The shooting percentage will continue to come down to the curve but the Hawks are slowly getting better at getting shots on net. Over the last 6 games we are even in shots for and shots against, with those coming out even at 5v5. I think in part the Hawks were trailing a bit more, so a bit more motivation to get offense going when you are behind, vs the early part of the season where the Hawks didn’t trail for much of time on ice. I think a long road trip like this can help galvanize the team together while they players are learning life under the new coaching staff and in some cases still learning the NHL ropes.
<p style=”line-height: 27px !important; transition: all;” data-userway-s17-styled=”true” data-line-height-feature-value=”1″>I’m sure they are going to look to get the 2nd line rolling again which has been quiet the last few games. I know Bertuzzi has been scoring a few goals, but none of them were while he was on the second line, as he was out there on the PP or with line 3 or 4 for a shift.
Story here about Kantserov along with an interview.
https://rg.org/news/hockey/blackhawks-prospect-roman-kantserov-eyes-2026-nhl-move
