Chicago Blackhawks 2025-2026

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Red77sng
#204      
Joel Goodson
here’s how I see it looking in a perfect world by the time all of our kids fully develop, with the veteran players in parentheses eventually being replaced/moving elsewhere:

Frondell-Bedard-Kantserov(Burakovsky)

McKenna/Stenberg-Nazar-Nestrasil(Bertuzzi)

Moore-Boisvert(Donato)-Lardis(Teravainen)

Dach-Greene-Spellacy(Mikheyev)

+ Vanacker, West, etc…

+ any potential FA/trade acquisitions
 
#211      
Warren Carter Fanclub
Illiniaaron said:
Two wins over Dallas, one each over Caps and Knights over the last six games, what the hell is going on
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Joel Goodson
Illiniaaron said:
Two wins over Dallas, one each over Caps and Knights over the last six games, what the hell is going on
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the line between winning and losing in the NHL pretty darn fine. great that the Hawks didn't throw in the towel. will be interesting to see what happens when Bedard and Nazar are back.

side note: Frondell has been killing it in the WJC
 
#214      
Illiniaaron
Battle89 said:
Bob Pulford dead at 89
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He put some pretty good talent together as GM on those 80s teams-savard, larmer, Wilson, Secord-but didn’t win much in the regular season. They went to the conference finals several times but kept running into the damn Oilers. Had a great career as a player, and a penchant for stepping in as interim head coach :ROFLMAO:
 
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Roundball Sage
Illiniaaron said:
Glenn Hall passes away at 94.
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The guy – "Mr. Goalie" – was something. A great goalie and nice man. He was part of the legendary Hawks era with Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita, Pierre Pilote and Phil Esposito (before he got traded away). The Hawks back then had great talent in the 1960s and got close to but never could win another Cup after 1961. They really should have won at least two more with the group they had.

The Hawks let Hall go in the late ‘60s expansion draft and the great Hawks team began to disassemble (starting with the trading of Esposito). They also made some other bad trades. The Hawks Ownership famously didn’t like parting with money and so even Bobby Hull wanted to leave when the WHA came along. And so the great Glenn Hall/Blackhawks era in Chicago came to an end. It took the franchise a long time to build itself back up.
 
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