Confirmed Trade: [FLA/CHI] Seth Jones (26.3% retained; $7M AAV) and 2026 4th round pick for Spencer Knight and 2026 1st round pick

[BelovedIsles]

A win for both. Chicago adds to their rebuild, and possibly gets a true #1 goalie. Florida adds to their Cup aspirations.

 

[FinlandPanther]

What does last year have to do with this? Stay on point lol

They’re not abusing the system.

 

[Fixed to Ruin]

 

[CallMeShaft]

A .976 save percentage to start his Blackhawks career. And there were a LOT of high danger chances given up in that first period. Like a lot even for this Hawks team.

Tried his hand at a goalie goal with an empty net for the kings, but puck got blocked within 10 feet of him. Also looked like he got hurt late in the third, but turned out that he just lost a skate blade.

Really great night for him though. Best goalie performance on the Hawks in recent memory. The team played good, relative to their standards, tonight too. After that abysmal 1st period at least.

 

[Ratsreign]

I cannot wait until Seth does something galactically stupid in a not-too-distant future game 7.

Just enjoy your new goalie, instead. You guys got a good one

A .976 save percentage to start his Blackhawks career. And there were a LOT of high danger chances given up in that first period. Like a lot even for this Hawks team.

Tried his hand at a goalie goal with an empty net for the kings, but puck got blocked within 10 feet of him. Also looked like he got hurt late in the third, but turned out that he just lost a skate blade.

Really great night for him though. Best goalie performance on the Hawks in recent memory. The team played good, relative to their standards, tonight too. After that abysmal 1st period at least.

He may need new skates, lol. It also happened in his last game for FL.

 

[SI90]

I love this f***ing game we call hockey

 

[CallMeShaft]

Knight's one performance tonight bumped his season long save percentage from .907 all the way up to .912. He's played 24 games this season.

That save percentage would have him tied with Markstrom, Ullmark, and Comrie for 11th best in the league this season (minimum 10 games played).

Really appreciate Florida giving us our future starter.

 

[The don godfather]

Cats got fleeced here unless cats win a cup.

 

[TLEH]

Good to see Cats use Seth on the PK but not PP.

 

[Kevin Musto]

Cats got fleeced here unless cats win a cup.

If anything, Jones reduces their chances of winning the Cup

The guy sucks ass

 

[SoundAndFury]

If anything, Jones reduces their chances of winning the Cup

The guy sucks ass

Didn't people say that about almost every Panthers defenseman before they landed in Florida?

 

[CanadianHawks]

Good to see Cats use Seth on the PK but not PP.

They got him on the second PP unit

 

[Crow]

He can be good enough to be a second unit guy there and contribute once in a while. He just doesn’t really do anything much to create. Mostly makes easy passes and shoots it off the goalies pads. Does a pretty good job keeping the puck in most of the time.

I cannot wait until Seth does something galactically stupid in a not-too-distant future game 7.

Meh, don’t really care what he does from now on. Seems like a decent enough guy. Wish he played harder. See ya.

 

[JaegerDice]

Jones is a flawed defenseman. He was the day the Blackhawks traded for him in one of the worst trades of the last 10 years.

Not sure if anybody has brought it up, but he really cannot figure out how to gap up, which makes him catastrophic at defending the rush.

His decision making makes you want to pull your hair out at times.

He can skate well forwards but lacks lateral speed.

You give him heavy o-zone starts and put up with his determination to try and make shots through shin-pads, you'll get the most out of him.

There's no doubt he's a physical specimen. You'll never need to worry about him getting tired or even injured, and he can certainly handle himself along the boards.

 

[Jean Luc Discard]

Jones is a flawed defenseman.

That's exactly what I wanted to hear. We like our dmen to be flawed, unreliable, inconsistent, etc.

 

[IdleTraveller]

Knight's one performance tonight bumped his season long save percentage from .907 all the way up to .912. He's played 24 games this season.

That save percentage would have him tied with Markstrom, Ullmark, and Comrie for 11th best in the league this season (minimum 10 games played).

Really appreciate Florida giving us our future starter.

You're welcome! I do wish Knight all the best - we will miss him and he's a gamer. So happy that he won his first game with you in such convincing fashion, and take care of him for us. And see if you can carry on our tradition of yelling "KNIGHT" during the anthem -that would be cool.

 

[JaegerDice]

That's exactly what I wanted to hear. We like our dmen to be flawed, unreliable, inconsistent, etc.

I hope it works out for your guys. Genuinely.

As a Blackhawks fan, I remember the same feeling. Felt like we could bring any flawed player into the system - Stalberg, Frolik, Oduya, Handzus, Rozival, Raanta, Darling - and our core and system would magically make studs out of them in their roles. It was a wonderful time and you should enjoy it for however long it lasts.

Eventually you hit a dud. I hope this isnt your dud, cause 5 more years is a long time when it comes to championship windows.

 

[Jean Luc Discard]

Felt like we could bring any flawed player into the system - Stalberg, Frolik, Oduya, Handzus, Rozival, Raanta, Darling - and our core and system would magically make studs out of them in their roles.

That's pretty much how it is with this core and Zito being able to identify undervalued players that could fit into the Panthers' formula of success. I don't think it'll last very long, maybe the next two seasons and then it becomes significantly more difficult to just insert new players to the system and they'll exceed expectations. By then the Panthers would need an exciting/revitalizing young player in their lineup but that's not probably going to happen with a depleted prospect pool and limited moveable assets.

 

[TotalHomer]

I hope it works out for your guys. Genuinely.

As a Blackhawks fan, I remember the same feeling. Felt like we could bring any flawed player into the system - Stalberg, Frolik, Oduya, Handzus, Rozival, Raanta, Darling - and our core and system would magically make studs out of them in their roles. It was a wonderful time and you should enjoy it for however long it lasts.

Eventually you hit a dud. I hope this isnt your dud, cause 5 more years is a long time when it comes to championship windows.

Jones is a flawed defenseman. He was the day the Blackhawks traded for him in one of the worst trades of the last 10 years.

Not sure if anybody has brought it up, but he really cannot figure out how to gap up, which makes him catastrophic at defending the rush.

His decision making makes you want to pull your hair out at times.

He can skate well forwards but lacks lateral speed.

You give him heavy o-zone starts and put up with his determination to try and make shots through shin-pads, you'll get the most out of him.

There's no doubt he's a physical specimen. You'll never need to worry about him getting tired or even injured, and he can certainly handle himself along the boards.

He'll be a second pair guy for us and we'll see what happens with the PP, eventually he might get a look on the first unit. He won't be asked to do much more than be the main puck mover on his pair. If we're playing the system right we don't give up rush chances, so he will have to learn to have a hard gap. Maurice's system is pretty simple though, everyone else pretty much has learned it.