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Stan Bowman will attend his first NHL general managers meeting this week in Toronto as the Blackhawks' GM. The groundwork for trades often is created at the meeting, but after the Hawks went 8-4-1 in October, it didn't seem Bowman would be very interested in tweaking his roster.
But after two road losses in November, during which the Hawks will play eight road games, things might be different. The Hawks have a potential problem that won't be fixed by waiting for center Jonathan Toews and wingers Ben Eager and Marian Hossa to return from injuries.
Dave Bolland, the second-line center who helps the club in many ways, has a nagging back problem that is being closely watched. Last year, Bolland's first full season in the NHL, it hardly was noticeable; he played in 81 regular-season games and all 17 playoff games.
Then something happened. Coach Joel Quenneville said there was ''no defining blow,'' but Bolland's back wasn't right before training camp started. The club even kept him out of a golf outing a week before camp.
Bolland was off the ice for much of camp. On Oct. 8, he was held out of a game at Detroit, and Quenneville has given Bolland frequent days off from practice. He still had to miss the 4-3 shootout loss Friday at Colorado.
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Re: Bowman, Hawks should be united in seeking center (Score: 1)
by broc on Tuesday, November 10
(User Info | Send a Message) | CHI SENDS:
Brian Campbell (7 year cap hit $7.14 million)
Patrick Sharp (4 year cap hit $3.9 million)
choice of Byfuglien, Versteeg, Brouwer, Ladd
TOR SENDS:
Tomas Kaberle (2 year $4.25 million cap hit)
Vesa Toskala ($4 million cap hit, UFA after this season)
Matt Stajan ($1.75 mil cap hit, UFA after this season)
To balance salaries a bit,
* choice of Byfuglien, Versteeg, Brouwer, Ladd to Leafs
* choice of Finger, Exelby, Stempniak, Mayers, Primeau to Hawks
- Free of Campbell's long term 7+ mil salary, this opens up the door for Chicago to sign Kane and Toews long term. If Chicago thinks it's too big a loss giving Sharp, they can plug the hole this season by taking Stempniak, Primeau, Mayers, etc. maybe even Ponikarovsky.
- Bigger yet, Burke gets his next Leafs captain in Patrick Sharp. Both Sharp and Campbell are Ontario boys, so this pleases Leafs Nation. Maybe Campbell is an assistant Cpt too eventually, who knows.
- Burke adopts the long Campbell contract, and gives Kaberle's great contract, but adds significant depth to the struggling Leafs forward corps with Sharp and a guy like Byfuglien/Versteeg/Brouwer/Ladd...
Makes sense to me anyway. Thoughts?
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Re: Bowman, Hawks should be united in seeking center (Score: 1)
by DannyLeafs (dude@dudemail.com) on Thursday, November 12
(User Info | Send a Message) | Thinking purely from Chicago's perspective, the best course of action for them is to make a trade that can both alleviate some cap space for them in the coming years, while making their team stronger right now in order to have a real chance at winning the cup. Personally, I think a good scenario for this would be to deal with the Islanders.
To NYI:
F-Kris Versteeg
F-Troy Brouwer
To CHI:
F-Doug Weight
G-Martin Biron
2nd RD draft pick
Chicago gets a solid veteran centre to fill in while Bolland recovers from injury, and when he does return, Weight can play the wing to offset the offense lost in giving up Versteeg. Biron is brought in to solidify the goaltending situation, and the draft pick allows them to restock the prospect pool. They have the added benefit of saving about 4.1 million in cap space for next season, while this doesn't mean they will be able to keep all the players they would like, it does allow them a little more flexability, and they can wait until the offseason and use the players to make a legitimate cup run.
The Islanders basically only give up a second round draft pick and acquire a young top six forward, and a young gritty checking line winger. The Islanders are no where near as bad as most people expected they would be so trading a 2nd round draft picks (likely that is about what they would have gotten for Biron in a deal with another team) for players that can play now, can really speed up the rebuilding process.
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