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Maroon Retiring (9:40)
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QUESTION OF THE DAY — Give Me Your Thoughts On 'Big Rig' Pat Maroon Hanging Up The Skates! Give It Up For A Legend!
How do you mention Vlasic and Murphy and then Kaiser… Levshunov will be first pairing
I dont think Marner will sign here, I would like to see the Hawks pry a Ufa in Torontos Knies away if Toronto signs Marner and the next off-season sign Kiril the thrill Kaprisov. Remember he stated he wants to come here and if the Hawks save a little this off-season they can outbid everyone for him.
Bedard, Kaprisov and a young Knies with our own talent coming up.
That would be my goal if i was KD.
As well as drafting Misa!
Question for the mailbag. If the Hawks refuse to take hagens if they falls to four who would be your prefered other option? Thinking personally along the lines of a Caleb Desnoyer, Anton Frondell, Jake O'brien, Victor Eklund, Rodgers Mcqueen ect…
Apart from bedard, possibly nazar and hopefully misa do you see any legit top line or top 6 forwards in our system at the moment. Think defense is done with rinzel coming up and goalie sorted but we need scorers
Question for mailbag: is there an NHL top 1A RHD preferably, 25 to 30 years old, to target in free agency that you would like GMKD to go after next summer. Murphy almost certainly will be traded at the next deadline, and I’m not positive Hawks will be able to sign a top line forward, in next free agency summer.
Teräväinen, Dickinson, Bertuzzi, Mikheyev, Veleno,and hopefully Donato will be the under 30ish veteran leadership group next year. They have all played well enough in middle 6 roles. Agree we can dream and sign at least 2 top line forwards. Hope for at least one. Draft one that won’t contribute for at least a year. We need to fill out the roster to help Bedard, Reichel, Nazar. Dach and Slaggert work hard but they are fringe 4th line or 13/14 roster forwards. We already traded from our surplus of D-men to get a goalie. What’s left is to weaponize our cap space, to get atop line guy through trade or FA without giving up any current player assets. Starting 1 July we can retain salary on a player in a three team trade to get a good top player from another team. And/Or take on a bad contract from another team in order to get a good player from them.
Or take a risk on a guy like Laine/ Nichushkin. Or disgruntled young player. Or overpaying an aging vet that had a good track record. (Patrick Kane; Tayler Hall) None of these last 3 are good options.