The Chicago Blackhawks once again find themselves in salary cap hell this offseason. Now for the third straight year, the Blackhawks must trade a younger player to get out from underneath a bad contract.
While everyone praises Bowman for his work on building three Stanley Cup champions, he needs to get some of the blame for the long term future of the team not looking so good.
While every general manager is not perfect, his biggest flaw is with contracts. Bowman has repeatedly hurt the Blackhawks by overpaying role players.
The examples I am going to give have hurt or are going to hurt the Blackhawks’ future and have forced or will force them to deal a younger player.