GDT: 2024 Blackhawks training camp

[BobbyJet]

I have said it before...you cannot go with 2 shrimps as 1C and 2C ...The bigger morevphysical teams will swat them off the puck too easily ..Bedard is Generational ...Nazar is not...Nazar could be 2C on a team with a big strong 1C or 2way 1C who is very good...butcalas we have a small albeit Generdational 1C ...this either Nazar plays wing or he is a 3C with big wingers.

I just have no faith with 2 very smalk centers as the top 2 centers any team. team.

Absolutely.....which begs the question, does the team have a big body center anywhere in the org capable of playing top-6? If not, it needs to be a priority at the draft.

 

[BHawk21]

Its not going to matter when we move Bedard to right wing on McDavids line.

More seriously they do have a chance at ending up with Frondell McQueen Misa or Ryabkin to be the #2 center and shift Nazar or Bedard to wing.

 

[statswatcher]

I have said it before...you cannot go with 2 shrimps as 1C and 2C ...The bigger morevphysical teams will swat them off the puck too easily ..Bedard is Generational ...Nazar is not...Nazar could be 2C on a team with a big strong 1C or 2way 1C who is very good...butcalas we have a small albeit Generdational 1C ...this either Nazar plays wing or he is a 3C with big wingers.

I just have no faith with 2 very smalk centers as the top 2 centers any team. team.

Absolutely.....which begs the question, does the team have a big body center anywhere in the org capable of playing top-6? If not, it needs to be a priority at the draft.

two very intelligent young men agreeing with eachother.

 

[Hattrick Kane]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1837145932120416363

 

[Hawkaholic]

I don't love the idea of Frank Nazar starting the season in Chicago as the 2C. But I'd rather have him there than Kurashev. It's amazing how a gaping hole at 2C feels so familiar...

They have gaping holes everywhere

https://x.com/i/web/status/1837145932120416363

Seems as though they have their minds made up about KK and Nazar playing in the A, and it's up to those 2 to change their minds and make it impossible to send them down.

 

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

Kurashev kinda sucks. Athanasiou is incredibly gifted. Saying he's fast and that's it is nonsense. He's got incredible hands and an absolute rocket of a shot.

He's just really, really stupid. Like negative hockey iq. I hate these lines but you play the vets day one because they're vets.

 

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

This team is going to be bad. Dickinson, Nazar and maybe Bedard are NHL centers.

 

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

Like we have sixteen wingers competing for nine or ten spots. We have two and a half centers competing for four or five spots and there's a chance one doesn't make the roster.

It's gonna be rough sledding.

 

[u2wojo]

I don't see it. Guy mooched off Bedard to put some points up and when Bedard went out he disappeared.

He just screams like the kind of guy who will find a way to put up points on bad teams but has no role on a good team. He's a Swiss Strome.

Kurashev is a guy that should have been signed for 5 or 6 years at maybe a touch more than he got for his 2 year deal. If he does anything remotely close to last season, he'll be demanding 5-6 million per next Summer as an RFA with arbitration rights. If he does produce similar to last year, I would be trying to move him at the TDL cause he is not a guy I want to commit to financially at the level you will have to. Even if he sucks away from Bedard and is a 30-40Pt player, he'll still demand 4-5 and probably get it from an arbitratior.

 

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

Kurashev is a guy that should have been signed for 5 or 6 years at maybe a touch more than he got for his 2 year deal. If he does anything remotely close to last season, he'll be demanding 5-6 million per next Summer as an RFA with arbitration rights. If he does produce similar to last year, I would be trying to move him at the TDL cause he is not a guy I want to commit to financially at the level you will have to. Even if he sucks away from Bedard and is a 30-40Pt player, he'll still demand 4-5 and probably get it from an arbitratior.

Paying Kurashev what the market says he's worth would be a major mistake. You take the first at the deadline for a cheap Swiss army knife.