For a while we had heard that the Chicago Blackhawks were going to be moving a key core player, but after Marian Hossa announced he wasn’t playing next year due to a skin disease, I believed we thought Stan Bowman was done making any big moves.
Well, I was far from right as you can possibly be! Stan kicked off the morning announcing the trade that sent Niklas Hjalmarsson to the Arizona Coyotes which was a total shock to all Chicago Blackhawks fans! The move made the Hawks defense younger and cheaper, but it didn’t make them better that’s for sure.