2024-25 Roster…too soon?
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BHawk21
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Talk about throwing poop at the wall and seeing what sticks
GIADF
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Who has a worse head coach: Bears or Blackhawks? Can it somehow be a tie?
Is there a worse sports city than Chicago?
Blackhawks in dead last and look awful again.
Bears... lol.
White Sox just had one of the worst seasons ever.
Cubs happy to be JUST good enough to fill the stadium without putting the effort and payroll into being a real contender.
Bulls... do people still watch basketball? I never hear anything about the Bulls from my Chicago sports friends these days.
ChiHawks10
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Are you really that hard up for some recognition that you keep posting this over and over as if I care? He's having a good season so far. Happy?
belfour30
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Fire Richardson now.
Hattrick Kane
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You know, it would probably be easier to call up Dach or Nazar than to do whatever the hell this is.
Darkstar
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I've been slow to criticize Richardson since we're rebuilding, but that's pitiful.
Dead Meat
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It's unforgivable. Enough of this mess already - we don't HAVE to have Bedard on the top line...do some coaching and play him in favorable situations for the sake of Pete
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TLEH
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I don’t mind Bedard playing wing but man these feel like throwing shit at the wall. (Because it is!)
It was said at the end of the 22/23 l season that the Hawks were 3 years away from being 3 years away from being a Cup contender...in a 6 year re-build plan.
Then we drafted Bedard whoch led some to speculate the re-build woukd by 2 seasons to just a 4 year re-build of which 24/25 season woukd complete half of that.
The brining in of the vets to "help Befard" so far has fizzled and Bedard has slumped i goal scoring and effective play...so maybe we cannot get that 2 seasonsvoff the original 6 yr re-build realistic estimate.
We do have pipelibecasets co ing but that probably still takes 3-4 years after this season to alk mature and gel together.
Eventually Bedard must be thevtop scorer we envisaged when we draftedvhim...Eventually we will have 6 top scoring forwards for the top six (lines 1 and 2)...eventualky we will have a scoringblinev3 too ,and eventualky the competition to round out linev4 will be so great tgat it too will be a quality line scorong more than a typical linec4 ..
But All of that is still 4 to 5 seasons after this one.
Maybe the last season of the original 6 year re-build can be loved off if we add a Hossa lije free agent who is that muchva difference-maker two ways..
But given wherexwexarevnow,it will take probably 5 more seasons after this one till we reach elite team status....4 if we get lucky with that outscisvover the top free agent who ...like Hossa...is only going to succeed when nearly all the other elements already there ...
Then we drafted Bedard whoch led some to speculate the re-build woukd by 2 seasons to just a 4 year re-build of which 24/25 season woukd complete half of that.
The brining in of the vets to "help Befard" so far has fizzled and Bedard has slumped i goal scoring and effective play...so maybe we cannot get that 2 seasonsvoff the original 6 yr re-build realistic estimate.
We do have pipelibecasets co ing but that probably still takes 3-4 years after this season to alk mature and gel together.
Eventually Bedard must be thevtop scorer we envisaged when we draftedvhim...Eventually we will have 6 top scoring forwards for the top six (lines 1 and 2)...eventualky we will have a scoringblinev3 too ,and eventualky the competition to round out linev4 will be so great tgat it too will be a quality line scorong more than a typical linec4 ..
But All of that is still 4 to 5 seasons after this one.
Maybe the last season of the original 6 year re-build can be loved off if we add a Hossa lije free agent who is that muchva difference-maker two ways..
But given wherexwexarevnow,it will take probably 5 more seasons after this one till we reach elite team status....4 if we get lucky with that outscisvover the top free agent who ...like Hossa...is only going to succeed when nearly all the other elements already there ...
hockeydoug
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Well, I guess it's better than throwing M-80s at players to wake them up... or is it?
I'll give him points for keeping me interested.
Brodie is itching for some minutes at center. Guess he'll have to wait another game or 3.
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Internally, have the Blackhawks set a required minimum amount of games played in Rockford before call up?
Cause this shit makes no f***ing sense
Cause this shit makes no f***ing sense
TheFridge
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That Brodie-Martinez pairing is going to get so f***ed lol.
I just don't get the logic behind anything Richardson does. So you put Dickinson and Anderson with Bedard, because they're going to get him the puck back? But then neither of them makes plays and neither are finishers, so what does it matter? Also, neither have been driving play much this year, they're sitting at 43 and 42% expected goals for.
The answer is so simple. I don't get it.
Bertuzzi - Bedard - Teravainen
Hall - Foligno - Kurashev
Mikheyev - Dickinson - Anderson
Reichel - Smith - Donato
BHawk21
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In general people tend to over correct. I think KD realizes his mistake with Korch but now is going to have guys stay in the AHL forever.
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GIADF
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I can get the reasoning for Dickinson centering Bedard.... He's one of our better face off guys (which is sad) and defensively sound.
But Anderson on that line is indefensible. Literally anyone else is a better option, even Mikheyev.
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TheFridge
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Dickinson centred Bedard and Kurashev for a decent chunk of time last season (78 minutes). They had a 38% CF% and a 3-1 actual goals advantage.
Theoretically Dickinson could work with Bedard as a competent centre, but they need another offensively-minded wing to play off Bedard. Anderson isn't it.
