For the majority of this season, it seemed like the Blackhawks were setting up to sell high on Ryan Donato—a player exceeding expectations on an affordable, expiring deal. Instead, the Blackhawks kept the pending UFA without even negotiating a contract extension ahead of the Trade Deadline. But… why? Let’s discuss.
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6 Comments
It's absolutely ridiculous that nobody even offered a 2nd round pick. But the reason most Hawks fans were so eager to trade Donato was that we all knew he isn't really worth what we thought other teams would offer. We thought in hindsight it was going to be a huge overpay and W for Davidson. So, from that perspective, it's understandable why no GM wanted to be on the L side of a deal like that.
Keeping him was the right move. I just hope management doesn't get too eager now in giving up high picks for top6 players. There's still a long way to go in this rebuild.
I'm happy with the deadline for the Hawks. KFC wants to build from the draft and that is what he is doing. Fans are impatient (NO WAY!) but I am being as patient as I can knowing what is coming. It feels like a hurricane several hundreds of miles away off the coast, but it is coming, and it will be here so prepare for it.
Idk if I agree with defenseman market but not forwards. Tanev got a 2nd. Glass got a 3rd. Beauvillier got a 2nd. Kuzmenko a 3rd. Nyquist a 2nd. Donato is better than all of them by far. All but impossible to believe they didnt get offered a 2nd.
You are very good at this
This might just be me having a bit to much of the hopeium in my system but I think the Hawks are starting to reach the fun part of the rebuild. This years team is kind of starting to remind me of the 2014 Cubs, they were bad and unwatchable until the last 2 months of the season when they started to trickle in some of the young players namely Baez and Soler. The Hawks are 3-0-2 since the Jones trade, so out of 10 points available in this small stretch they’ve gotten 8 of them, and they’ve done it while playing a super young lineup. Lev is getting his first actual call up (I don’t count the one that happened earlier this year) and Rinzel/Moore will probably sign the minute that Minnesota gets knocked out of the NCAA tournament. Let’s have some fun and assume all those players end up in the lineup to finish the year. That would be 12 players under or at the age of 25 in the lineup.
This guy’s voice makes me want take an ice pick to my ear.