Chicago Blackhawks Making Interesting Trade Offers
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The Chicago Blackhawks are a team to watch on the offseason trade market.
General manager Kyle Davidson needs to add some help for Connor Bedard and company, and are dangling the number four overall pick to see what kind of package they could land. Ideally, the Blackhawks would find a veteran defenceman with term left on his contract to add to the group.
Davidson also has a slew of NHL ready prospects he could include in packages, and word is he's open to do so. Chicago also has a whopping three first-rounders in 2027, and three second-round picks in 2026. There's no need to add more prospects at this point, as Bedard is putting pressure on the organization to win now.
On Monday's episode of Daily Faceoff Live, Steven Peters joined Tyler Yaremchuk and had this to say on what he expects from the Blackhawks this offseason:
Not only are some young players expendable, but they’re also valuable assets. So you can take those assets, put a draft pick alongside them and make a sharp trade… You look at the Anaheim Ducks, Utah Mammoth and San Jose Sharks, all getting that youth and that speed, and they see the future. Chicago is there, but they’re just two years behind, and they might be the best of the four teams that are in that group when they get through this rebuild, but you have to do it by sprinkling in the right pieces around the young talent.
You can’t just have 18 to 24-year-olds at every spot and have six or seven draft picks every year. You need those guys to sprinkle in, and now, with those assets, you can turn those into veteran guys, and I don’t mean a 35-year-old guy that’s at his prime right now. I mean a 26-27-year-old player that still has a ceiling and can still improve and can still help your team for years to come, not a short-term deal that won’t work in Chicago.
