{"id":472415,"date":"2022-07-10T02:10:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T23:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/blackhawks-other-tanking-nhl-teams-will-pay-long-term-price\/"},"modified":"2022-07-10T02:10:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T23:10:15","slug":"blackhawks-other-tanking-nhl-teams-will-pay-long-term-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/blackhawks-other-tanking-nhl-teams-will-pay-long-term-price\/","title":{"rendered":"#Blackhawks, other tanking NHL teams will pay long-term price"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3eaee969c32\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3eaee969c32\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/blackhawks-other-tanking-nhl-teams-will-pay-long-term-price\/#%E2%80%9CBlackhawks_other_tanking_NHL_teams_will_pay_long-term_price%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Blackhawks, other tanking NHL teams will pay long-term price&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CBlackhawks_other_tanking_NHL_teams_will_pay_long-term_price%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Blackhawks, other tanking NHL teams will pay long-term price&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/larry-brooks.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Larry Brooks\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/larry-brooks.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/larry-brooks.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The eyesore organization in Chicago now becomes the first major market revenue-producer in pro sports to shamelessly embrace tanking. It may be a while before the NHL\u2019s favored nation franchise gets back into the Winter Classic.<\/p>\n<p>Trading 24 year-old Alex DeBrincat off his second 41-goal season in the past five years in order to effectuate a rebuild because of looming future contract obligations \u2014 or at least that was the excuse \u2014 would have been tantamount to the Rangers moving a then 24-year-old Mika Zibanejad in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The fact the Blackhawks received only the relatively paltry return of the seventh- and 39th-overall picks this year plus Ottawa\u2019s third-rounder in 2024 doesn\u2019t make this organizational decision, carried out by GM Kyle Davidson, look much better.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, the only thing that makes this look better is the fact the deal in which the Blackhawks soon after agreed \u2014 to take Toronto\u2019s obstacle in goal, Petr Mrazek, off the Leafs\u2019 hands in exchange for merely moving up 13 spots in the draft \u2014 was somehow worse.<\/p>\n<p>The Blackhawks are selling off parts. The Penguins \u2014 another of the league\u2019s historically favored nations, and one that not once, but twice, perfected the art of tanking \u2014 were able to win Cups by bottoming out, so now that\u2019s how organizations think they need to go about things when rebuilds are <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ropriate. That is cosmically false. Teams that bottom-feed <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly sleep with the fishes for a decade or more. Correct, Arizona and Buffalo?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Blackhawks_Hockey.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Blackhawks\" class=\"wp-image-22991209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Blackhawks_Hockey.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Blackhawks_Hockey.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Blackhawks_Hockey.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Chicago Blackhawks general manager Kyle Davidson, (l.) and new head coach Luke Richardson.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We\u2019re told on good authority that Carolina owner Tom Dundon is basically low-balling impending free agents Vincent Trocheck and Nino Niederreiter out of town after already having done so to Tony DeAngelo, which is an interesting way for a win-now operation to operate.<\/p>\n<p>Our information is that DeAngelo, who was an impending restricted free agent, was willing to take a one-year deal with the \u2019Canes for well under the $5 million AAV he ultimately received on his two-year contract with the Flyers after he\u2019d been traded to Philadelphia. But to no avail.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>If the Rangers look to free agency to fill their hole at second center, they\u2019ll be in on Trocheck, but the likelihood is that the price tag will escalate beyond the Blueshirts\u2019 cap means.<\/p>\n<p>So within three or four years we will know whether Shane Wright\u2019s stare-down of the Montreal draft table was a sign of A) elevated competitiveness and self-belief, or B) self-entitled immaturity.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/1241010888.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"NHL\" class=\"wp-image-22991238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/1241010888.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/1241010888.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/1241010888.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Tony DeAngelo <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">NHLI via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kind of how it went in retrospect a couple of years after Lias Andersson had tossed his World Junior silver medal into the crowd in Buffalo in 2018 after Team Sweden had been beaten in the title <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> by Team Canada.<\/p>\n<p>First: fiery competitor.<\/p>\n<p>Later: Flawed character.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>I don\u2019t think legacy is a good enough reason for the Penguins, who have not won a playoff round since 2018, to give Evgeni Malkin four years.<\/p>\n<p>If that is his deal-breaking bottom line, then some other team will surely fulfill that requirement if No. 71 gets to free agency at age 36.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>As well as can be ascertained, about half of the league believes Kirby Dach is no more third-line type center, and if that\u2019s the case, the Canadiens may have overpaid in sending the 13th-overall Chicago\u2019s way for the third-overall pick of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers had zeroed in on Kaapo Kakko with the second-overall selection following their lottery win, but there was some pretty good debate about whether it would make more sense to take Dach, given the organizational void at center. Then GM Jeff Gorton expressed the majority opinion and went with Kakko. Now, Gorton has Dach in Montreal.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>The Devils got a rather pedestrian goaltender in acquiring Vitek Vanecek from the Capitals, but as Desiderius Erasmus once observed after watching Hardy Astrom play, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/HOCKEY-NHL-FLA-WSH_.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Islanders\" class=\"wp-image-22991546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/HOCKEY-NHL-FLA-WSH_.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/HOCKEY-NHL-FLA-WSH_.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/HOCKEY-NHL-FLA-WSH_.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Vitek Vanecek <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">USA TODAY Sports<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It would still be no surprise if New Jersey still is in the market for Toronto\u2019s impending free agent Jack Campbell if the Devils could find a landing spot for Mackenzie Blackwood.<\/p>\n<p>Moving Mrazek\u2019s $3.8 million cap hit off the books \u2014 for the next two years \u2014 creates options for the Maple Leafs, who very likely could take a run at Anaheim\u2019s John Gibson if Campbell gets to the open market.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Edmonton, in desperate need of a goaltender, would most certainly be in on Campbell, if not on Cup-winner Darcy Kuemper, whom the Oilers tried to obtain last year. Washington, as well, is believed interested in chatting with Kuemper.<\/p>\n<p>And though Minnesota GM Billy Guerin surely isn\u2019t going to get pushed into a corner by Cam Talbot, who may not be all that thrilled at the prospect of becoming Marc-Andre Fleury\u2019s junior partner, there is no upside in keeping a goaltender unhappy with his role.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Georgiev was once an excellent backup whose greatest quality was his ability to perform after long stretches on the bench behind Henrik Lundqvist \u2014 until he talked himself into believing he could not play capably with so much time between outings.<\/p>\n<p>So Talbot certainly could become an option for the Caps, who have no apparent support at the moment for Ilya Samsonov.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>The offensive veneration of Alex Ovechkin apparently never stops when it comes to the NHL and its rights holders.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe ESPN\u2019s John Buccigross might like to expand on what exactly, \u201cOvechkin went through last year,\u201d as he opined during the network\u2019s generally first-rate coverage of Round 1.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>Finally, consider this my official offer to act as a marriage counselor for DeAngelo and John Tortorella.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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It may be a while before the NHL\u2019s favored nation franchise gets back into the Winter Classic. 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