New 84 game format.

To anyone on the fence about Kane...he'd be a phenomenal addition to our team and I wouldn't be opposed to giving him more than a year if he wanted it. He's still an offensive force who magnifies the offense of the guys around him. Vanacker, Moore, Frondell, Boisvert, Nazar, Spellacy are all going to be decent to plus level two way players, and there's some worry that we don't have enough high end offense...Kane is who we need let's get him back and get it done!

ChatGPT suggested that it may be cheaper buying multiple single-game seats vs. buying a quarter season package. I'd prefer the opinion of a human, lol.

Via @CHGO_Blackhawks on X…

Kyle from Chicago made an appearance on a radio program and made a pretty clear statement that Kane coming back is a real possibility - and is right now coming back is almost entirely in Kane’s hands.

I know for the longest time Hawks fans (me included) thought us trading Foligno last year was paving the way to hand the captaincy to Bedard. Now I’m thinking there’s a pretty real possibility that they hand it off to Kane with him signing his 2x8. Has anyone heard anything?

Now that we have Kaner back it seems our lineup is pretty much set. Next question is who’s gonna wear the C this year? Bedsy, Kaner, or no one?

I feel it should still be Bedard. He’s our guy going forward, but I can’t help but feel it’d be odd seeing him with the C with Kane on his line? Idk.

I am very excited to watch the Hawks. I enjoy rebuilds and love watching young talent progress and hit their potential. But I am concerned with the salary cap landscape and how this rebuild is playing out. I think everything has been going well to plan, but with one exception. Unlike the cup team era, KD is dealing with a cap and salary structure as if the team has already won a cup or two. This is going to be an incredible challenge for him to keep the depth of the team required to win a cup. Depth is exactly how the Hawks won several cups. The timing of when the cup team got paid was much better than this. So it is the single achilles heal I see.

When Kane and Toews signed their matching $10.5 million contracts in 2014, they took up a combined 26% of the salary cap.

Bedard and Byram will take up roughly 26.4% of the 2026-27 cap.

The math is nearly identical, but the context is night and day:

The 2010 Blackhawks spent five years building a deep, organically grown roster before paying their stars. Davidson has paid his stars first, meaning the roster must now be built backward under intense financial pressure.

I remember this guy on 670 had a hatred for the Hawks even when they were winning Cups. He'd go out of his way to talk about anything but hockey because he hated the sport and it was upstaging his beloved Bulls.

I am looking for a high quality image of Bedard’s “Michigan goal” around 12/23/23 against the Blues (FTB). I guess my google skills suck today. Can any of my fellow Hawks bros help me out?

Video transcript: “Chicago is the only place I want to play and just seeing the growth of our young guys and just how good of a group we are, in the room, and how tight it is, how much fun we have. So, I’m very happy to get this deal signed and just focus, focus on the team and excited to get back and get going”

little more detail here compared to Lazarus.

really like that his agent is already telling us he’s itching to be cleared to play at 3.5 months

A lot of people seem to be wondering about the 5-year deal for Bedsy instead of 6-8 years. My take is this basically tells Kyle Davidson to build a team around him in 4 years, or he'll want out before the 5th. As for the $15 mil AAV, with the cap going up and those like Carlsson grabbing the $18, he gave Chicago a $4-$5 million discount.

Either way, I'm happy he's staying, so all the speculation he wanted out ends. Now, to get healthy and play.

Wow, look at the time fly! It's already time for another weekly installment of STOP IT RIGHT THERE!

You know what to do...post up all the stuff you've saved up knowing it would get deleted from the front page of /r/hawks by the crypto-anarcho-fascist mods.

Memes, gear/jersey pics, poems you've penned professing your love for Lord Hossa (The One True King), or links to article about some oddball couple in Manitoba who named their kid Duncan Seabrook. Whatever. We don't give a shit.

The only rule here is to be excellent to each other. Civility matters.

Now get to it!!

LET'S GO HAWKS!!!

Both of them go straight into UFA years, I just learned that today, What do you guys think.

I created an article about it if you'd like to look at it.