Chicago BlackHox general manager Kail Davidson wanted to clean at least one thing about the Taylor Hall Trade: he was going to transfer the hall soon or later.
So Friday’s three-team deal was just a means of an end, Hawks starred as a route station for the Colorado avalanche and Carolina storm, which to the blockbuster players to swap Micco Rent and Martin Nesas. Hawks received a third round pick.
Davidon told reporters in the fifth third area on Monday, “It was very low from our side, obviously a big thing.” “I think there was some confusion on what was in our role. We were happy to find the property that we got back.
“In transferring Taylor, it was something that was probably going to be at some point.”
The elephant in the room is that Hawks himself did not take the whale.
Subsequently, it begged the question: When will the Hawks a big swing?
Tyler Burtuzi, Tavo Terrevinn and Alec Martinez Offsen had good additions-not so much, but not so much-they have not transferred the needle to a team who surprised themselves with the second worst record of NHL at 15-29 Is 5.
At least there was technically ranton in huxe – temporarily, on paper – so they could maintain half of their $ 9.25 million salary and transfer it to Carolina. Adding $ 4.625 million to books and using a retention slot is worth the third round pick as compensation, right?
but I digress.
If Davidson planned to make a drama for a big name, he is not telegraphing his pitch.
“We will see,” he said. “This is January. I have no clue which is going to be available in six, seven months.
“We will continue to consider once that we know who is really available and what it makes sense. A lot can change in the next six months, basically, before we reach there. I would say that you are never ruling anything. ,
With each personnel step and every news conference, we get a better understanding of Davidson’s team-building darshan, their guiding star.
From the beginning, when he first took rudder in October 2021, there were possibilities.
Three years later, will he be receptive to wake up in the deep end of the free-agent pool, where Rains, Mich Marnars and Brock Bosters live?
“Well, I think every team requires such players,” Davidson said, especially a star -free agent. “But when you get that player and who are those players, it is really difficult to say what the right fit is.
“And secondly, also, we are one of 32 (teams) and everyone wants a star player. We are not an one-team league. This is not to take the Chicago BlackHox players and go for them to run and run. It is a competitive league and everyone wants to win. ,
Here are my reactions to Davidson’s reactions for many questions.
1. Why would a free agent be chosen Blackhox?
Davidson said: “It is an original six (franchise), an incredible organization, an incredible city. Really exciting high end talent is coming through ranks.
“We have found the amount of players who are going to allow us – once they develop – a very effective group, an exciting group, in front of an incredible fan base, which supports their hockey team. And so I think we are not very worried about this.
My response: Hawks are hovering around most places in the previous location. His current coach, Anders Sorensen, is serving on an interim basis, so whoever is behind the bench in the next season (unless it is Sorensen), it will be a new system and possibly the first year coach.
Hawks does not have a thick time to make a playoffs. It does not talk to a stable environment.
The “incredible city” spell attracts tourists, but free agents look much deeper than this.
Yes, there is to be very worried.
2. What is your assessment of Anders Soresan’s performance?
Davidson said: “I think he has done a good job so far. We have seen a little high and climb. … Some habits and some mentality we have, my opinion has improved as a team. There are some things that we still need to clean, especially when we are playing with the lead.
“But the fact that we are moving forward and are able to create crimes in the game and put the team in a position to keep the lead, and later hold the lead in sports and get results in recent Has been good
“But there is still a mentality that needs to change and play the right place on the front leg through 60 minutes, rather than sitting back and trying to play a little more conservative.”
My response: Davidson said with a straight face after the back-to-back periods (third vs Tampa Bay Lightning on Friday and Minnesota Wilde vs on Sunday) with a shot on the goal, a franchise ago.
Yes, these are some games, but this team is prone to some disturbing lullas. Check the second time the most recent time.
Davidson said that one thing is true: Soresan made a spark more aggressively. But he has recently been luned to play Luke Richardson’s more conservative game (or perhaps players on it).
Sorensen is probably desperate to play this team as someone in the building to play until his minor capacity, but he has not got much success. It has been given that he has a part of Mrs., but Richardson also did the same.
Out of curiosity, I asked the NHL statistics and information to see how Sorensen piles up against other Hawks coaches through 23 sports, and its record (7-13-3) is especially similar to a name. : Jeremy colitten.
I will stop for that shiver to run my spine down.
In fairness, some similarities seem to be in the middle of how Colition and Colitan run a team, but it shows how difficult it is to turn the tide in the post-Jylnewiley era.
Here are some of the coach records in Sorensen’s class:
- Luke Richardson: 7-12-0-4
- Alpo suhonen: 7-12-2-2
- Anders Sorensen: 7-13-0-3
- Jeremy Colitan: 7-13-0-3
- Mike Keenan: 6-13-4-0
- Dirk Graham: 6-14-3-0
3. What is Kyle Davidson’s assessment of her performance?
Davidson said: Before the season opener, “I don’t think we were out of the phase of reconstruction. In the context of a reconstruction and construction through our young players, a lot of players are still in amateur hockey, so We are not out of it.
“Do I expected that we would be better than another (from)? I did. But this does not mean that I am worried about the big picture here, about the big process of playing here where we are leading and How good this group is and it may not have changed at all.
“I am probably more optimistic that our young players are in the entire organization. I am probably more optimistic in that summer now. Saying that, for this group at NHL level, I had a little more hope and we made coaching changes because of that.
“NHL team, I wish, we had some more success here in the first half. But it does not reduce the progress that I think we (in) are making big pictures. ,
My response: Quite appropriate. We always know that hacks are playing long games. I do not believe that someone has said differently.
Perhaps this is the issue of semantics.
You bring it into giants and say that you “definitely hope we have taken a step,” or that is a “less frequent” to compete at night in NHL, and it seems that you feel that you have a “tank” It is expected to reach a high plateau from that you expect to reach the higher plateau than the “tank”. The era of the last couple of the season. (Of course, you will never get Davidson to accept the team with the tank for Connor Bedard.)
If you do not expect to go out continuously from the phase of reconstruction, then only to spend millions on the veterans to fire Richardson and kick another sale with the hall?