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2025-26 Roster…too soon?

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MHO said:
What about a 34 years old point a game center at $11M AAV over a 22 year old .75 ppg power forward at $5M AAV?
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Taveres shouldn't be getting 11 if he wants to stay, otherwise a super easy decision for Toronto to move on.
 
Small part of me kind of wishes the Hawks win this lottery. Take Misa #1 overall and then it'll be easier to move 2026 first in an offer sheet (or trade for a young forward) since the Hawks pick can't win McKenna anyways.
 
I hate to be this guy but it's very possible we're at the bottom of the league again next year. This year's team is way better than last year's despite being no better in the standings. Look at goal differential and point percentage. It's more of a testament to how bad they were last year than anything else and how much better the rest of the league is.

Other than San Jose, who is it looking like the Hawks will be clearly better than going into next season? And yes, free agency is a major unknown but even if we hit it big, we can still be like Nashville.
 
MHO said:
I hate to be this guy but it's very possible we're at the bottom of the league again next year. This year's team is way better than last year's despite being no better in the standings. Look at goal differential and point percentage. It's more of a testament to how bad they were last year than anything else and how much better the rest of the league is.

Other than San Jose, who is it looking like the Hawks will be clearly better than going into next season? And yes, free agency is a major unknown but even if we hit it big, we can still be like Nashville.
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I think this team will finish in the bottom 12 for sure but I don't think they're going to be a lottery team again, unless something goes terribly wrong.

They'll have a full year of Knight and hopefully Soderblom will at least maintain his level. They're also obviously going to be aggressive in the off-season trying to improve the team through FA or trade. And then there's going to be a lot of room for improvement internally with young players like Nazar, Levshunov, Rinzel, Korchinski, Del Mastro, etc. taking a step or getting into the lineup consistently.
 
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TheFridge said:
I think this team will finish in the bottom 12 for sure but I don't think they're going to be a lottery team again, unless something goes terribly wrong.

They'll have a full year of Knight and hopefully Soderblom will at least maintain his level. They're also obviously going to be aggressive in the off-season trying to improve the team through FA or trade. And then there's going to be a lot of room for improvement internally with young players like Nazar, Levshunov, Rinzel, Korchinski, Del Mastro, etc. taking a step or getting into the lineup consistently.
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Just so that you are prepared I can tell you that we are for sure going to be a lotto team again next year.
 
eklund2chicago said:
Just so that you are prepared I can tell you that we are for sure going to be a lotto team again next year.
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I don't think so. And I thought the team was guaranteed to be a bottom-5 team this year despite the improvements they made in the off-season. I don't think they're going to be in this spot again next year, but we'll see what happens over the summer.
 
I also still see us as a lottery team next season, in the McKenna discussion. As we should be. Next season will be another year like this current one where we’re advancing along and seeing more and more of the youth yet remaining an overall bad-very bad team in the standings. I want to see improvements but I’d expect and hope for us to also remain in lottery position/capable of adding another elite young player. Then in 26/27 we can try to make the playoffs.
 
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Unless Pittsburgh blows it up, I don't see the Hawks as surefire better than anyone next year except San Jose. They might have the worst roster i've seen in the last decade at the moment.
 
Hattrick Kane said:
We would have moved up twice in the draft in 5 years, which means we aren’t able to move up again until 5 years passes.

Of course we could get McKenna still, but that would now require finishing dead last. Which seems very unlikely for how the team is trending plus additions in the offseason.
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Ahh, I thought it was 3, not 2, for some reason.

eklund2chicago said:
Just so that you are prepared I can tell you that we are for sure going to be a lotto team again next year.
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100%
 
TheFridge said:
I don't think so. And I thought the team was guaranteed to be a bottom-5 team this year despite the improvements they made in the off-season. I don't think they're going to be in this spot again next year, but we'll see what happens over the summer.
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So the team is going to look something like:

Knight
Söderblom

Vlasic
Murphy
A FA/trade top4 D (hopefully)
Then three of EDM, Crevier, Levshunov, Söderström, Allan, Korchinski to fill out the remaining spots

FA singing say Ehlers, think that’s too optimistic but sure-Bedard-Bertuzzi
Teravainen-Nazar-Donato
Dach-Dickinson-Mikheyev
Slaggert-Veleno-Foligno

Something like that (ish)

If you don’t think that’s a bottom three, maybe bottom five team I don’t know what to tell you.
 
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