GDT: 2025 NHL Trade Deadline - March 7

[Dead Meat]

Good on you Musto for realizing your true value to this forum is being the court jester instead of trying to understand the game of hockey...I salute you.

 

[BHFAN92]

Wait....what....we are NOT signing Rantanen (or Marner) this Summer?

NOPE @Hawkaholic says they dont wanna play here.

 

[MTU34]

Repating myself....but how the hell do we not open up even a SINGLE F roster spot to slide college signings into....we'll probably scratch them so we can watch Maroon slog around the ice instead.

None of the college prospects in the system will be available anytime soon. Moore, Greene, and Thompson will all make the tournament and play into April

 

[Hawkaholic]

NOPE @Hawkaholic says they dont wanna play here.

Still waiting to hear how we acquire Rantanen mid season.

 

[Dead Meat]

Repating myself....but how the hell do we not open up even a SINGLE F roster spot to slide college signings into....we'll probably scratch them so we can watch Maroon slog around the ice instead.

How many do you expect to sign and play right away...?

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

The B's got Kane'd

 

[Kevin Musto]

Take two 2nd round picks ffs

I guarantee that was on the table

But Kyle knows he sucks at drafting so he wouldn't know what to do with those

 

[MTU34]

I’m assuming Marchand had some sort of protection? That’s not a lot

 

[u2wojo]

The B's got Kane'd

unless the "conditions" are super easy to turn that 2nd (THREE drafts out) into a 1st....that seems really light.

 

[Toews2Bickell]

None of the college prospects in the system will be available anytime soon. Moore, Greene, and Thompson will all make the tournament and play into April

also none of these guys project as impact forwards anyway...yes they will get Misa, Martone or Hagens, but they need guys and lots of them to hedge their bets on some of these prospects busting

 

[MTU34]

HF Hawks: “Donato is not as good as his numbers”

GMs: *offer packages indicative of the fact that Donato is not as good as his numbers*

HF Hawks: “I can’t believe Kyle didn’t get 6 first rounders and Connor Mcdavid for Donato! Fire this bum because no one respects him”

 

[Toews2Bickell]

Take two 2nd round picks ffs

I guarantee that was on the table

But Kyle knows he sucks at drafting so he wouldn't know what to do with those

one 2nd being on the table seems very likely, Zawaski said he was told Donato was as good as gone, KD likely tried to hold firm at a 1st or 2nd+ and the market moved away from him so he saved face and kept Donato

 

[MTU34]

also none of these guys project as impact forwards anyway...yes they will get Misa, Martone or Hagens, but they need guys and lots of them to hedge their bets on some of these prospects busting

Think he’s more talking about guys getting into games this year (IE: Slaggert and Nazar last year). Not a huge concern though since these guys will all be playing deep into the year

 

[Toews2Bickell]

HF Hawks: “Donato is not as good as his numbers”

GMs: *offer packages indicative of the fact that Donato is not as good as his numbers*

HF Hawks: “I can’t believe Kyle didn’t get 6 first rounders and Connor Mcdavid for Donato! Fire this bum because no one respects him”

think most of HFHawks would've been cool with a 2nd and the 1st++ just became a meme because of his recent production

 

[Muffinalt]

Interesting parallel. I would argue SJ is not as far along their process as us.

I would've liked that package for Donato, but not crazy liked it, more like yeah not bad.

Most fans reaction though was OTT winning that trade.

Edit: ahh sorry I missed the 4th being included. That makes it worse.

 

[Mrfenn92]

Take two 2nd round picks ffs

I guarantee that was on the table

But Kyle knows he sucks at drafting so he wouldn't know what to do with those

Link?

 

[Esq]

So glad that KFC spent the last minutes of the trade deadline acquiring Shea Weber's contract.

Idiot.

 

[Larmer83]

Repating myself....but how the hell do we not open up even a SINGLE F roster spot to slide college signings into....we'll probably scratch them so we can watch Maroon slog around the ice instead.

Dominic James is the only forward not going to the NCAA tourney and if signed will most likely head to Rockford.

Aidan Thompson will go to the tourney and if signed will most likely head to Rockford.

Oliver Moore(Include Rinzel) might get in just a handful of games (Think Nazar and his 3 games last year) if Minnesota makes a run.

That leaves Ryan Greene who might be available for 10 games if BU stumbles out of the gate in the tourney.

 

[Crow]

I’m assuming Marchand had some sort of protection? That’s not a lot

Even if he didn’t they would do right by him.

 

[BHFAN92]

any word on the conditional 1st rd pick from Florida in Marchand deal? Is it the Blackhawks 2026 pick and we now get moved to 2027 1st?

 

[Giovi]

Good on you Musto for realizing your true value to this forum is being the court jester instead of trying to understand the game of hockey...I salute you.

Just another example of the kid leaving the kiddies table and trying to converse with the people at the adults table.

Take two 2nd round picks ffs

I guarantee that was on the table

But Kyle knows he sucks at drafting so he wouldn't know what to do with those

As usual, you have no idea what was on the table. And as usual, you speak in absolutes about things you have no clue about.

 

[ColbyChaos]

any word on the conditional 1st rd pick from Florida in Marchand deal? Is it the Blackhawks 2026 pick and we now get moved to 2027 1st?

Hawks get their 26 1st since floridas pick this year is going to calgary

 

[BobbyJet]

At least for them, he is signed past this season, going to be real tough for them to get past Tampa or Florida.

One of the Sportsnet analysts was only half joking when he predicted Panthers will go undefeated in the playoffs.

 

[Crow]

I think we will laugh about losing our shit over a 2nd round pick possibly for Donto in a few years.

And who care sabout Weber contract? That is off the books after next year and we need that to hit the floor.

We can just laugh about it now.

The people who are crying about it will be crying about something else then and completely ignoring their idiotic takes in the past.

It’s the way it goes.

 

[BobbyJet]

We either give him an awful extension or he walks as UFA and we failed to get asset for him at TDL

Either way you slice it, Its a L for Hawks and Hawk fans

This is the bitter BWC that I missed so much.