(Writer’s note: Andrew Ladd will be included in a separate post grading trade-deadline acquisitions.)
For the love of Marian Hossa, please let the Brandon Mashinter Experience be over moving forward. A continuation of the John Scott Experience and Brandon Bollig Experience, the deployment of Mashinter in exactly half of the Blackhawks’ regular-season games and a pair of postseason games was absolutely painful.
Mashinter filled coach Joel Quenneville‘s need for an enforcer-type guy being on the ice, even though Mashinter didn’t enforce anything and was a pretty bad fighter to boot.