The Chicago Blackhawks probably won’t be major buyers or sellers at the 2018 NHL trade deadline. They’re too far out of the playoff race to make acquiring rentals worthwhile, and too loaded with no-movement clauses to make wholesale changes easy to execute.
So we’re likely to have a pretty quiet Feb. 26 around these parts. There won’t be any Antoine Vermettes or Andrew Ladds this time around. It just doesn’t make sense for where this team is at.
But that doesn’t mean that general manager Stan Bowman will spend the next two weeks watching the Olympics rather than working the phones.