Connor Murphy, Chicago Blackhawks (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)
Coming into the 2020-21 season it was understood that the NHL’s salary cap was likely to remain flat for the season, and would stay that way for a couple more years. At around the same time, the Blackhawks were preparing to enter the season as a rebuilding team after several years’ worth of poor results. The flat cap has been more or less confirmed for years to come, but where will that leave Chicago?
General manager Stan Bowman gets a lot of criticism, and some of it is very deserved.