If you’ve paid attention to the Chicago Blackhawks in the latter seasons of the Stan Bowman era, you’ll notice that he had an almost fetish-like instinct to acquire “projects” — players who showed some promise before they were drafted but weren’t working out for the teams that drafted them.
In some cases, these projects worked out (see Strome, Dylan) while in others (Nylander, Alex) they didn’t. Taylor Raddysh, acquired as part of the Brandon Hagel trade before the deadline, effectively in exchange for a fourth-round pick, feels like Kyle Davidson’s first attempt at one of those projects.