I think if you could trade Sharp for a player like Bjugstad now, you need to jump all over it.

If its something like Sharp for picks and prospects at 18 or 19 still marinading, I would wait until next year as well
- FourFeathers773

Rights to Hayes and Versteeg/Roszival for a 6th-round pick. DONE! Get rid of the other one, too, by unloading him to a team trying to reach the cap floor. DONE! Sign Brookbank for $1M.

If the cap does go up to $76M for 2015-16, then ice a 4th line for $2.3M (Regin types & wingers). Give Saad $3.5M, Kruger $1.6M, let Oduya/Leddy go, keep Brookbank and hope Johns/Dahlbeck (or both) are ready. Do the math and…the Hawks get to keep Sharp.

Rights to Hayes and Versteeg/Roszival for a 6th-round pick. DONE! Get rid of the other one, too, by unloading him to a team trying to reach the cap floor. DONE! Sign Brookbank for $1M.

If the cap does go up to $76M for 2015-16, then ice a 4th line for $2.3M (Regin types & wingers). Give Saad $3.5M, Kruger $1.6M, let Oduya/Leddy go, keep Brookbank and hope Johns/Dahlbeck (or both) are ready. Do the math and…the Hawks get to keep Sharp.
- DMChi2010

If the Hawks do not sign him (Hayes) they get a compensatory 2nd round pick next year (54 overall).

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Remember - even if you only get a low draft pick back - still have to replace him - so you only net about $1.5 in cap savings.

Rights to Hayes and Versteeg/Roszival for a 6th-round pick. DONE! Get rid of the other one, too, by unloading him to a team trying to reach the cap floor. DONE! Sign Brookbank for $1M.

If the cap does go up to $76M for 2015-16, then ice a 4th line for $2.3M (Regin types & wingers). Give Saad $3.5M, Kruger $1.6M, let Oduya/Leddy go, keep Brookbank and hope Johns/Dahlbeck (or both) are ready. Do the math and…the Hawks get to keep Sharp.
- DMChi2010

Right to Hayes. I am assuming a joke there.... Just in case, though, I'll point out that the Hawks will get a second round pick if he doesn't sign here by mid-August. So I suspect those valuable rights will stay with the Hawks for the duration.

Right to Hayes. I am assuming a joke there.... Just in case, though, I'll point out that the Hawks will get a second round pick if he doesn't sign here by mid-August. So I suspect those valuable rights will stay with the Hawks for the duration.
- mohel

edit - HawkintheD is just too quick on the draw (I read that on the internet ).

If the Hawks do not sign him (Hayes) they get a compensatory 2nd round pick next year (54 overall).
- HawkintheD

I don't have the energy to give back on the "rights to Hayes" trades.

edit - HawkintheD is just too quick on the draw (I read that on the internet ).
- mohel

It's all true on the internet Mo!

I don't have the energy to give back on the "rights to Hayes" trades.
- StLBravesFan

I felt I owed Burgie for posting a comment about them earlier. I'm trying to help him maintain his sanity.

My point is audition time for young players shouldn't be in April/May.
Q had the pedal to the floor from Oct and the Hawks never really ever took control of the Division.

He needs to change as JJ said may not have a choice.
Coach like Babcock and Sutter...Use the regular season to work out kinks and to give kids time to learn...Not when the stakes and pressure is the highest.
- Al

Yeah I'm beginning to think regular season is very overrated. Especially in the west were you have 6-7 very even teams.

My point is audition time for young players shouldn't be in April/May.
Q had the pedal to the floor from Oct and the Hawks never really ever took control of the Division.

He needs to change as JJ said may not have a choice.
Coach like Babcock and Sutter...Use the regular season to work out kinks and to give kids time to learn...Not when the stakes and pressure is the highest.
- Al

>Yep, to that -- the point of the regular season -- if you are a solid team -- is to get ready for the playoffs
>Thought Q really missed the mark with Morin this year -- in limited action he had the highest Corsi rating of all Hawk players -- ice tilted toward the other team when he was on
>Interesting comments by Stan Bowman at MIT's Hockey Analytics Conference: "The Blackhawks have their own analytics system -- we won't get into what it is specifically comprised of -- but one of the things it does for us is to help eliminate bias." (I believe that to mean coaching bias.)
>Find it interesting that Q's buddy lasted 1 year as goalie coach and another buddy is leaving, too
>The margin between winning and losing is very thin in the Western Conference
>And a head coach today needs the best support he can get to win
>Think Q has total control of the "lineup card", practices, and game plans but the "Goodship Blackhawk" is now giving him lots of input

Toews and Kane should change their numbers to $$

Yeah I'm beginning to think regular season is very overrated. Especially in the west were you have 6-7 very even teams.
- SteveRain

Kings proved this in 2012.

Duck fans still don't understand that the division means nothing they rave and throw massive parties for a division title.

Toews and Kane should change their numbers to $$
- kneughter

Good one.

Kings proved this in 2012.

Duck fans still don't understand that the division means nothing they rave and throw massive parties for a division title.
- RobitailleFAN20

And this year two teams that finished third in their divisions met in the WCF. No need to talk about what happened there.......

And this year two teams that finished third in their divisions met in the WCF. No need to talk about what happened there.......
- mohel

Yeah no kidding.

I keep forgetting hawks didn't win division.

But yeah divisions are just that. A REGULAR SEASON ACCOMPLISHMENT

Kings proved this in 2012.

Duck fans still don't understand that the division means nothing they rave and throw massive parties for a division title.
- RobitailleFAN20

Yeah I'm done having melt downs to bad losses in November.

All I care in about is last 25 games and health of roster.

Central is going to be a meat grinder. 2 rounds of hell. Pacific is you and Anaheim. All you want to do is avoid a wild card central team in round 1.

My point is audition time for young players shouldn't be in April/May.
Q had the pedal to the floor from Oct and the Hawks never really ever took control of the Division.

He needs to change as JJ said may not have a choice.
Coach like Babcock and Sutter...Use the regular season to work out kinks and to give kids time to learn...Not when the stakes and pressure is the highest.
- Al

Amen

Good one.
- mohel

Is he even allowed to post? Shouldn't he be in a room with whaler rockie original jets Nordiques north stars fans? Island of misfit fans?

I felt I owed Burgie for posting a comment about them earlier. I'm trying to help him maintain his sanity.
- HawkintheD

(Deep breaths)

i read that Tallon is looking for a "goal scorer" in a trade for "assets"...Sharp+ for any of their young centers....Huberdeau, Bjugstad, Barkov+...

Yeah no kidding.

I keep forgetting hawks didn't win division.

But yeah divisions are just that. A REGULAR SEASON ACCOMPLISHMENT
- RobitailleFAN20

To be fair, I think it means more to teams that haven't proven a ton yet in the playoffs. The Kings and the Hawks know what they can do and it is certainly less important to them.

Yeah I'm done having melt downs to bad losses in November.

All I care in about is last 25 games and health of roster.

Central is going to be a meat grinder. 2 rounds of hell. Pacific is you and Anaheim. All you want to do is avoid a wild card central team in round 1.
- SteveRain

Agree. I think we will see wayyyy more maintenance days for guys like Hossa this year. I think he played in 70 games last year. Between he and Richards, I bet they get quite a few games off

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Is he even allowed to post? Shouldn't he be in a room with whaler rockie original jets Nordiques north stars fans? Island of misfit fans?
- SteveRain

I think this joint qualifies as the Island of Misfits, eh?

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- mrpaulish

Wasn't it established that this source is a dope?