{"id":804263,"date":"2026-08-06T05:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/804263\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T05:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:18:08","slug":"inside-look-at-chicago-blackhawks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/804263\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside look at Chicago Blackhawks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago’s biggest trade was acquiring defenseman Bowen Byram<\/a>\u00a0from the Buffalo Sabres for the No. 4 and No. 45 pick in the 2026 NHL Draft and defenseman Louis Crevier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Forward Roman Kantserov<\/a>, a second-round pick (No. 44) in the 2023 NHL Draft, is coming over from the Kontinental Hockey League and should be part of the Blackhawks\u2019 top six, perhaps even the top line.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to take a big step this year,” Bedard said. “We want to be a playoff team and that\u2019s our only goal. With those additions, to add that high-end skill and the other additions, you add guys who are physical and can help on the other end of the ice, which is just as important.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur adds are going to be a huge difference. We feel good about our group and what we\u2019ve got going in. We\u2019re extremely confident of each and every guy in the room and the growth we\u2019ve all had this summer. I think it\u2019s going to be a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, adding a known scorer was key for Chicago. Enter Patrick Kane, who should make Bedard\u2019s absence a little more tolerable.<\/p>\n

Kane, who was with the Blackhawks from 2007-23 and won the Stanley Cup three times in Chicago in 2010, 2013 and 2015, is back after signing a two-year, $16 million contract ($8 million AAV) on July 23. He was traded to the New York Rangers on Feb. 28, 2023 and played the past three seasons with the Detroit Red Wings.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Patrick departed a couple years ago, we were in a totally different spot as a franchise,” Chicago general manager Kyle Davidson said on July 24. “We were much more at the outset of this whole (rebuilding) project. Now that we\u2019ve got some of these draft picks that have entered and established themselves in the NHL, obviously continue to grow in the NHL … but I felt from an organizational standpoint and roster standpoint that the time was right with what he provides.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd [I want] to be very clear that we\u2019re bringing him in to contribute to the hockey team here. Nostalgia and the return are very nice aspects of it, but it\u2019s not the core reason. We\u2019re bringing him in to make our team better, which we firmly believe he does do. We\u2019re ready to continue to take steps and believe he\u2019s an important piece to help that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago’s biggest trade was acquiring defenseman Bowen Byram\u00a0from the Buffalo Sabres for the No. 4 and No. 45…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-804263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}