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Injury Report: Patrick Kane - UPDATED 4/13/15: Medically cleared!!!

Hawkaholic said:
Stay the course, add a depth Dman, and hope we can get by the 1st 2 rounds. We still have some great players on the team and most teams in the league would kill to have our forwards, even the playoff teams.
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Agreed. Giving up is loser talk, and no way the Hawks become sellers.
 
Would be a complete disservice to everybody on the team and send a terrible message to the rest of the league that we just give up on beating STL and NSH without Kane. Add the pieces if they make sense and see what happens come April/May. But I'm not surprised the 'sell talk' is coming from certain posters that have been looking for a reason to spew this nonsense all season. So this team fell to the middle of the pack in the West from top 2 contender, so what. Play the playoffs out and see what happens. Give it a shot to last long enough for a return. Still got Johnny leading the lockerroom and a HOF coach behind the bench, with some other HOFers named Hossa/Keith.
 
Toews2Bickell said:
Would be a complete disservice to everybody on the team and send a terrible message to the rest of the league that we just give up on beating STL and NSH without Kane. Add the pieces if they make sense and see what happens come April/May. But I'm not surprised the 'sell talk' is coming from certain posters that have been looking for a reason to spew this nonsense all season. So this team fell to the middle of the pack in the West from top 2 contender, so what. Play the playoffs out and see what happens. Give it a shot to last long enough for a return.
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I'd prefer to keep my prospect depth and resign saad then getting some rental players.
 
InTOEWSweTrust said:
I'd prefer to keep my prospect depth and resign saad then getting some rental players.
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Do you realize we are so deep that our prospects get mad and request trades because they know they aren't gonna play here. If we have to trade Ross and a pick or some role playing prospect and a pick who really cares?
 
Teravainen said:
Do you realize we are so deep that our prospects get mad and request trades because they know they aren't gonna play here. If we have to trade Ross and a pick or some role playing prospect and a pick who really cares?
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That's fine, but you aren't getting Vermette for a role playing prospect.
 
Teravainen said:
Then trade a 1st. It's not like we're getting McDavid or Eichel...
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So what? Vermette is a rental and not enough to cover the loss of Kane.

There is no point is leveraging the future to increase the Hawks chance of winning by .2%

Plus the prospects that the Hawks lost weren't good to play here which is why there were moved. Are the Hawks really missing the 11 points that Pirri has provided this season?
 
No matter what you think the Hawks should do, no GM in Stans position will ever become a seller because they lost one of their top players. Giving up on the team sends a very bad message to the rest of the locker room. It's just not something that is ever done. Lots of playoff teams have a roster similar to ours without Patrick Kane, and they are adding pieces and giving their players hope that they can make the playoffs.

It would be foolish to all of the sudden become sellers, no matter how unrealistic it may be that the Hawks will win the Cup this year.
 
St Louis vs Chicago:
Forwards: St Louis>
Defense: Chicago>
Goaltending:Chicago>>
Experience: Chicago>

Nashville vs Chicago:
Forwards:Chicago>
Defense:Nashville> (could change if the Hawks make a move)
Goaltending: Nashville>
Experience: Chicago>>>>>>
 
Sucks to hear guys. Kane is easily one of the most exciting opposing players to watch.

Only really skimmed through the last couple pages of this thread, but imo your seasons far from a write off. You guys easily have the most playoff experience in the Central (St. Louis hasn't exactly performed well there, and Nashville has barely been there...though they're certainly tough competition regardless). Plus you never know what can happen to other teams health before/come postseason. That being said, obviously I'm not nearly as keen on your teams ability this season as you all are, but hopefully it works out. Couple good bounces in the first two rounds and Kane coming back slightly ahead of schedule (ie. 10 weeks instead of 12, which I believe would be just in time for the beginning of the Conference Finals which is the point where you'd be in REALLY tough without him) and you could be primed for another cup. Probably sounds pretty unlikely at the moment, but hey..we nearly slipped by you guys from 7th seed when the majority of our fanbase had written the team off, so stranger things have (nearly) happened.


I can say this now that we're in the East.
 
We are not in a spot to buy high. Just makes no sense When you consider we just lost our best player and signed kane and teows to 21Mil per year. We are not going to be able to fill holes Via FA so we have to not over pay. If the right deal comes along then do it. If you say we are loaded with prospects which ones rate as top 6 or top 4? that is what wins championships. Outside of TT I cannot be sure we have any top 6 guys in our system. Bowman needs to look at this year, this off season cap problem and the next 3-5 years down the road till Teows and kane deals look OK.

2nd thing, we all heard 6-12 weeks Its kind of interesting they picked the farthest out of the rumor. I would do the same thing if I was the hawks not knowing if it might be 8-9. No advantage to put a low and high end on things. look at what happened to D rose when he came slower then 1st mentioned. It may take a full 12 but you can always hope it might be sooner. the doctor is the one not putting that out the hawks are.
 
If we can parlay Raanta and a prospect into Petry and get Vermette for our spare 2nd rounder I see no reason that we can't get past the Blues and give Nashville everything they can handle.

We would still have better forward depth (or equal in St.Louis case) and our defenses would be saw offs.

What it would come down to, same as both 2013 and 2014 is goaltending. Crawford has shown in the past he can play at the same level (and higher) as guys like Quick, Rask and Miller. He would absolutely have to play at the same level as Rinne (or Quick if LA upset them) for us to get through to the WCF again and get Kane back.

Stan won't make panicy moves IMO, he will look to use the cap space Kane has generated but not at the expense of the future. Vegas still has Blackhawks odds at 7/1 (19/4 in some cases) to win, they aren't freaked out to the point of dropping it (yet) so we shouldn't be either.
 
Sorry to hear about Kane. If we faced each other in the conference finals again, I was hoping it would be more on level footing in the spirit of competition. I don't like it when best players go down.

Good luck, hope he makes a speedy return and is healthy.
 
Taze em said:
St Louis vs Chicago:
Forwards: St Louis>
Defense: Chicago>
Goaltending:Chicago>>
Experience: Chicago>

Nashville vs Chicago:
Forwards:Chicago>
Defense:Nashville> (could change if the Hawks make a move)
Goaltending: Nashville>
Experience: Chicago>>>>>>
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Blues D is light years better then Hawks and experience means very little ,, Rozy has plenty of experience so I guess your saying now he is great asset?

Preds are better in every aspect as a team at this point when you take away Kane. And there is nothing the Hawks could do to make there D even a fraction as good as Preds right now
 
Sir Psycho T said:
THEY DIDN'T!

One of the best QBs of all time was the Super Bowl MVP, Bledsoe getting hurt actually helped them because Brady got to play.
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What Brady became after 2001 is irrelevant. Bledsoe was their best player, he got hurt, the Pats won it all.

Listen, I hope you're right. As you can tell from my name, I do not like the Blackhawks. At all. But I'm not blind. They're incredibly talented, and even without Kane, still have a very deep lineup (which includes their 2 best players: Toews and Keith). I expect them to make a deadline move or 2 and still be a legitimate threat in the West.
 
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