Chicago Blackhawks
The whole organization. One connected view.
Western Conference · Central DivisionOpen GM workspace2026–27
Current roster2414 F · 8 D · 2 GKnown commitmentsUS$88.1M23 / 38 contracts pricedFarm system#2Loaded · board consensusNext gamevs MTLOct 23
Line combinations
Provider projection · 2026-10-12
#20
#88
#80
#59
#8
#25
#86
#22
#11
#12
#24
#55
#72
#28
#44
#6Goaltending
Spencer Knight
#30 · CHI · 25 years- SV%
- GAA
- Games
2025–26 · NHL regular season
Shots on goal faced
1,428 saves155 goals allowed
Source & scope
NHL stats API goalie summary (aggregated across clubs), data/goalie-stats-2025-26.json · 2026-09-21T18:03:37.296Z. Current roster; statistics from the stated season, across clubs. This selection does not identify tonight’s starter. Condensed footage does not establish full video coverage.
Contract horizon
Cap & contractsKnown AAV · 2026–2723 priced deals · 15 AAV unknown
Ceiling · ConfirmedUS$104M
Known committed share84.8%
Ceiling less known AAVUS$15.9M
ForwardsDefenceGoalies
Line: season-specific ceiling. * Outlook or assumption. Balance is not certified cap room.
Cap outlook assumptions
Local to this panel; does not change the GM financial scenario ceiling.
Sources, coverage & amounts
Sum of known AAV, not a complete payroll forecast or available cap room. Relief, bonuses and other charges are excluded. The file may contain later-dated signed terms; its file stamp is not a historical as-of reconstruction.
NHL/NHLPA · 2026–27: $104M · 2026-05-06
NHL/NHLPA · 2027–28: $113.5M · 2025-01-31 · subject to adjustment
Elliotte Friedman / Sportsnet · 2028–29: $127.5M · 2026-09-25 · reported estimate, not confirmed
Beyond that, no published limit in the checked sources. Any chosen growth is a planning assumption, not a forecast. Expiring commitments do not automatically fund a complete future roster.
2 contracts with unresolved terms remain outside the bars.
- F
- 59,761,667 USD
- D
- 19,800,000 USD
- G
- 8,580,000 USD
0 priced signed extensions included this season.
Contract ledger · file stamp 2026-09-21
Prospect pathways
Prospects
Anton FrondellC · Djurgårdens IFNHLETA —
Sacha BoisvertC · Boston Univ.NHLETA —
Xavier VilleneuveD · Blainville-Boisbriand ArmadaNHLETA —
Context & more prospects
Farm-board notables; recorded development stage, not an arrival forecast.
Anton Frondell: 43 GP · 2025–26 · 28 points
Sacha Boisvert: 26 GP · 2025–26 · 17 points
Xavier Villeneuve: 37 GP · 2025–26 · 38 points
Selection follows the farm board's published notable order. The NHL step is a pathway, not a confirmed move. Arrival dates and current rights are not verified here.
Vaclav Nestrasil
Roman Kantserov
All pathways & roster lanes →What changed
All movesResults, standings & source context
2026–27 regular season · current roster
Team overview
What the contracts tell us
What the contracts mean for the next moves
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Next game
2026–27
Upcoming games, columns & export
| Date | Opponent | Type | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| vs MTL | Regular season | ||
| vs FLA | Regular season | ||
| vs LAK | Regular season | ||
| at DET | Regular season | ||
| at BOS | Regular season |
White noise · as of 2026-10-18 · social 2026-10-18
Chicago Blackhawks are talked about more than most (84th percentile); attention is up on the usual
How much the club is being talked about: the league's stories tagged to the club and to its players, daily pageviews of the club's article against its 90-day baseline, and posts naming the club on the connected networks (Bluesky). Attention, measured; not a claim about what it does to the room.
Social: .
Carrying the noise: Connor Bedard (), Patrick Kane (), Roman Kantserov ().
Latest from the league: Hyry gets first multigoal game, Stars blank Blackhawks (2026-10-18) · RECAP: Blackhawks Fall to Stars, 4-0, at United Center (2026-10-18) · Stars at Blackhawks projected lineups (2026-10-17)
Contract ledger · researched 2026-09-21
Chicago Blackhawks contracts, 2026–27 onward
Every contract CapOrCup could source, one row per player, one column per season. Certified rows match a club or NHL release. Reported rows come from a named outlet and are labelled. Contracts with no public source are listed separately, and none are estimated.
| Player | 2026–27 | 2027–28 | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forwards · | |||
| Connor BedardCertifiedCNMC | |||
| Patrick KaneCertifiedRNMC | |||
| Frank NazarCertifiedC | |||
| Tyler BertuzziReportedLM-NTC | |||
| Teuvo TeravainenCertifiedCM-NTC | |||
| Ryan DonatoCertifiedCM-NTC | |||
| Jordan GreenwayCertifiedLM-NTC | |||
| Andrew MangiapaneCertifiedL | |||
| Cole SmithReportedR | |||
| Anton FrondellCertifiedC | |||
| Ryan GreeneCertifiedC | |||
| Oliver MooreCertifiedC | |||
| Landon SlaggertCertifiedL | |||
| Nick LardisCertifiedL | |||
| Sacha BoisvertCertifiedC | |||
| Dillon BoucherCertifiedL | |||
| Jiri FelcmanCertifiedC | |||
| Roman KantserovCertifiedR | |||
| Martin MisiakCertifiedR | |||
| Connor MylymokCertifiedL | |||
| Dominic ToninatoCertifiedC | |||
| Marek VanackerCertifiedL | |||
| Defence · | |||
| Bowen ByramCertifiedD | |||
| Alex VlasicCertifiedDM-NTC | |||
| Ian ColeCertifiedD | |||
| Wyatt KaiserCertifiedD | |||
| Kevin KorchinskiReportedD | |||
| Artyom LevshunovCertifiedD | |||
| Sam RinzelCertifiedD | |||
| Dylan AnhornCertifiedD | |||
| Ethan Del MastroCertifiedD | |||
| Taige HardingCertifiedD | |||
| Connor MackeyCertifiedD | |||
| Goalies · | |||
| Spencer KnightCertifiedGM-NTC | |||
| Arvid SoderblomCertifiedG | |||
| Stanislav BerezhnoyCertifiedG | |||
| Drew CommessoCertifiedG | |||
| Adam GajanCertifiedG | |||
| Sourced total | |||
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Cap or Cup · league-wide signals
Who is earning the cap hit
Each priced CHI skater compared with every priced skater at the same position in the league. Open a signal for the full drill-down on the league board: the tests, the numbers, and what would change it.
Private scenario · 2026–27
Chicago Blackhawks cap planner
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Line 1
Bertuzzi · Bedard
Line 2
Greene · Teravainen · Kane · Nazar
Line 3
Donato · Mangiapane · Smith · Moore
Line 4
Slaggert · Lardis · Greenway
Pair 1
Vlasic · Kaiser
Pair 2
Byram · Levshunov · Rinzel
Pair 3
Cole
Projected lineup · as of 2026-10-12
Chicago Blackhawks as the feed projects it
Sportradar NHL API v7, team depth charts depth chart (licensed feed (30-day trial)): the club's intended lines, pairs, power-play units and goalie order, under Jeff Blashill. Measured lines above come from last season's shift charts; this is what the club says it means to do. "Expected starter" is first on the chart, not a confirmed start.
Line 1 · Nick Lardis · Ryan Greene · Patrick Kane
Line 2 · Roman Kantserov · Anton Frondell · Tyler Bertuzzi
Line 3 · Ryan Donato · Dominic Toninato · Teuvo Teravainen
Line 4 · Cole Smith · Oliver Moore · Jordan Greenway
Pair 1 · Bowen Byram · Artyom Levshunov
Pair 2 · Alex Vlasic · Ian Cole
Pair 3 · Wyatt Kaiser · Sam Rinzel
Power play 1 · Tyler Bertuzzi · Roman Kantserov · Anton Frondell · Patrick Kane · Bowen Byram
Power play 2 · Ryan Donato · Ryan Greene · Nick Lardis · Oliver Moore · Sam Rinzel
Goalies · expected starter Spencer Knight · Arvid Soderblom
Official roster
Who is in the organization now
| Player | # | Pos | Age | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forwards · | ||||
| Connor Bedard | 98 | C | ||
| Tyler Bertuzzi | 59 | L | ||
| Ryan Donato | 8 | C | ||
| Anton Frondell | 16 | C | ||
| Ryan Greene | 20 | C | ||
| Jordan Greenway | 12 | L | ||
| Patrick Kane | 88 | R | ||
| Roman Kantserov | 80 | R | ||
| Andrew Mangiapane | 26 | L | ||
| Oliver Moore | 11 | C | ||
| Frank Nazar | 91 | C | ||
| Cole Smith | 22 | R | ||
| Teuvo Teravainen | 86 | C | ||
| Dominic Toninato | 25 | C | ||
| Defense · | ||||
| Bowen Byram | 24 | D | ||
| Ian Cole | 28 | D | ||
| Ethan Del Mastro | 38 | D | ||
| Wyatt Kaiser | 44 | D | ||
| Kevin Korchinski | 14 | D | ||
| Artyom Levshunov | 55 | D | ||
| Sam Rinzel | 6 | D | ||
| Alex Vlasic | 72 | D | ||
| Goalies · | ||||
| Spencer Knight | 30 | G | ||
| Arvid Soderblom | 40 | G | ||
2025–26 production
Last season’s scoring leaders
Club totals with CHI.
| Player | GP | G | A | PTS | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1Range not available Connor BedardC | |||||
| #2Range not available Tyler BertuzziL | |||||
| #3Range not available Frank NazarC | |||||
| #4Range not available Ilya MikheyevR | |||||
| #5Range not available Teuvo TeravainenC | |||||
| #6Range not available Andre BurakovskyL | |||||
| #7Range not available Ryan DonatoC | |||||
| #8Range not available Ryan GreeneC | |||||
| #9Range not available Louis CrevierD | |||||
| #10Range not available Artyom LevshunovD |
Shots for
shots a game, expected per shot
Shots against
allowed a game, expected per shot
From the video · model judgement
How they gained the zone in condensed games
Read from the league's free condensed games: entries carried in against dumped in, entries denied at the line for and against, and the rest of what the model could see. A condensed game is a sample of the game, so these are observations from the games read, not season counts.
Games read: MIN at CHI (2026010018), CHI at STL (2026010042).
Coaching style · 2025-26
rolls four lines; rides his top four defence; sits back with a lead
How the bench was run, measured from the shift charts and the play-by-play (a mid-season coaching change is not separated). Each is set against the league median; style words appear only where the club is clearly away from it.
System group
Plays like Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers, Boston Bruins, Buffalo Sabres, Minnesota Wild, Columbus Blue Jackets, Seattle Kraken, San Jose Sharks
Four groups found by clustering every club's shot profile for and against. The group is described only by the features that set it apart from the league; no label is invented for it.
Goal archive ·
Chicago Blackhawks: every goal, with the league's video
Preseason, regular season and playoffs are kept apart. Each row links to the NHL's own highlight page; no video is hosted here. Where a clip has been reviewed, the reading of it is a model judgement of the frames, not a measurement.
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Assistant GM
Chicago Blackhawks: the front-office read
Every idea below is computed from sourced contracts, 2025–26 production, roster lanes, pick ownership and standings. Nothing is a rumour. Prices are computed guides from production and contract surplus, not market quotes.
Direction and front office
Selling
Selling now: veterans are available and the club is taking picks and prospects.
How this GM trades: . Sunk-cost risk: watch.
Decisions that cannot wait
Most urgent
Ranked by how soon the decision is forced: offer-sheet dates, cap compliance, deadlines and sell-offs.
Artyom Levshunov
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Comparable market salary
- Offer-sheet band
- 2027–28 room (sourced)
Sam Rinzel
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Comparable market salary
- Offer-sheet band
- 2027–28 room (sourced)
Aliaksei Protas (WSH)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Kevin Fiala (LAK)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Club injury listing
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Ivan Barbashev (VGK)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Plan for the cap you might get
Cap outlook
Sourced commitments against the announced or projected ceiling, and against a flat cap at today's (the ceiling stayed flat in 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24). Unpriced contracts are not counted, so real room is smaller.
| Season | Committed | Ceiling | Room (projected) | Room (flat cap) | Needs growth | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026–27 | ||||||
| 2027–28 | ||||||
| 2028–29 | ||||||
| 2029–30 |
Long, expensive contracts: Connor Bedard ( through 2030–31: ); Frank Nazar ( through 2032–33: ).
Expansion: none announced
Protection slots are worth something
The NHL has not approved or announced an expansion team or expansion draft. In June 2026 it gave the Friedkin family a six-month window to explore a second Texas team in Houston or Austin (about $3.5 billion for the fee and an arena). The Board of Governors met on September 22, 2026 without announcing a decision; any expansion would still need a vote of the Board. No expansion draft is announced. Reported, not official: a Houston or Austin team could be awarded before the end of 2026 and would begin play in 2029-30, which would put its expansion draft in June 2029. The league is also reported to be talking with at least two other groups about a 34th team. Checks here apply the rules to today's rosters and contracts as a planning scenario, not a forecast. The format is not announced either: one new club per draft (a club could face a draft in consecutive years) or two clubs in the same draft (a club could lose two players at once). Under the 2021 rules a club protects 7 forwards, 3 defencemen and 1 goalie (or 8 skaters and 1 goalie). Every no-movement clause in force must be protected and uses a slot, so its real cost is the player it pushes off.
If a draft is announced: ask a no-move player to waive for the draft, trade an exposed player now rather than lose them for nothing, or make a side deal with the expansion club to steer its pick.
Where the roster is thin
Needs
A position (centre, wing, defence pair or goal) counts as a need when most of its regulars are unsigned past this season, or when they produce below the league average for that position.
Left wing
- Established
- Signed for 2027–28
- Lane 5v5 pts/60
Right wing
- Established
- Signed for 2027–28
- Lane 5v5 pts/60
See it coming
Offer-sheet exposure
This club's own RFAs for summer 2027: what their production is worth on the open market, which compensation band an aggressive offer would fall in, and whether the club could match with the room it has committed. The 2027–28 ceiling is not set; this uses the current ceiling.
Artyom Levshunov
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Comparable market salary
- Offer-sheet band
- 2027–28 room (sourced)
Sam Rinzel
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Comparable market salary
- Offer-sheet band
- 2027–28 room (sourced)
Ryan Greene
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Comparable market salary
- Offer-sheet band
- 2027–28 room (sourced)
Wyatt Kaiser
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Comparable market salary
- Offer-sheet band
- 2027–28 room (sourced)
Nick Lardis
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Comparable market salary
- Offer-sheet band
- 2027–28 room (sourced)
Players other clubs might move
Trade targets
Realistic targets, not wish lists: young players stuck behind veterans, salary a cap-strapped club has to move, rentals on selling clubs, and good contracts priced by what they are worth. Young franchise-core players and anyone with a no-move or full no-trade clause are left out.
Aliaksei Protas (WSH)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Kevin Fiala (LAK)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Club injury listing
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Ivan Barbashev (VGK)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Igor Chernyshov (SJS)
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Felix Unger Sorum (CAR)
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Latest roster move
- White noise
- Price guide
Fabian Lysell (BOS)
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- Price guide
Nick Robertson (PIT)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Mackie Samoskevich (SEA)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Latest roster move
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Michael Carcone (UTA)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Club injury listing
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Arseny Gritsyuk (NJD)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Restricted free agents, summer 2027
Offer-sheet candidates
RFAs at clubs tight on cap. Compensation depends on the offer's AAV band and must be paid in the offering club's own picks; the Carlsson offer sheet in July 2026 showed how far a club will go to match.
Matias Maccelli (NYI)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Club injury listing
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Own 2027 picks held
Calum Ritchie (NYI)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Club injury listing
- Projected slot
- Own 2027 picks held
Gabe Perreault (NYR)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Own 2027 picks held
Maxim Shabanov (MIN)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Own 2027 picks held
Trades with three or more clubs
Multi-team ideas
Chains where every club receives a player in a need lane, gives up roughly what it gets, and stays under the cap. Salary retention is used at most once per contract (the 2025 MOU bars a second retention on the same contract within 75 regular-season days) and never above 50%.
ANA → DET → CHI → BOS
- ANA → DET: Rodwin Dionicio (blocked, )
Gate at DET: not confirmed. fit: not yet validated. - DET → CHI: Keegan Kolesar (salary, )
Gate at CHI: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated. - CHI → BOS: Ryan Donato (salary, )
Gate at BOS: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated. - BOS → ANA: Fabian Lysell (blocked, )
Gate at ANA: blocked (waiver exemption). fit: not yet validated.
ANA → DET → CHI → CGY
- ANA → DET: Rodwin Dionicio (blocked, )
Gate at DET: not confirmed. fit: not yet validated. - DET → CHI: Keegan Kolesar (salary, )
Gate at CHI: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated. - CHI → CGY: Ryan Donato (salary, )
Gate at CGY: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated. - CGY → ANA: Matt Coronato (salary, , CGY retains )
Gate at ANA: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated.
ANA → DET → CHI → CBJ
- ANA → DET: Rodwin Dionicio (blocked, )
Gate at DET: not confirmed. fit: not yet validated. - DET → CHI: Keegan Kolesar (salary, )
Gate at CHI: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated. - CHI → CBJ: Ryan Donato (salary, )
Gate at CBJ: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated. - CBJ → ANA: Mathieu Olivier (salary, )
Gate at ANA: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated.
ANA → DET → CHI → BOS
- ANA → DET: Rodwin Dionicio (blocked, )
Gate at DET: not confirmed. fit: not yet validated. - DET → CHI: Keegan Kolesar (salary, )
Gate at CHI: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated. - CHI → BOS: Teuvo Teravainen (rental, , CHI retains )
Gate at BOS: blocked (waiver exemption) (entry-level slide). fit: not yet validated. - BOS → ANA: Fabian Lysell (blocked, )
Gate at ANA: blocked (waiver exemption). fit: not yet validated.
Ideas to start from
Trade concepts
Each is priced from the player's tier and the contract's surplus over its remaining term, then cap-checked: salary in against salary out. A shape to test, not a final price.
Concept: Igor Chernyshov (SJS)
- Contract
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Opportunity
- Net cap change
Concept: Nick Robertson (PIT)
- Cap hit
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Opportunity
- Net cap change
Concept: Mackie Samoskevich (SEA)
- Cap hit
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Opportunity
- Net cap change
Concept: Michael Carcone (UTA)
- Cap hit
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Opportunity
- Net cap change
Sell while the price is high
Sell-high candidates
Players in their prime who produce more than their cap hit suggests, with the deal ending within two seasons: the moment their trade value peaks.
Tyler Bertuzzi
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Players to build around
Young players to build around
Players under 24, judged on NHL games played and five-on-five scoring rate, their prospect ranking, and what they are producing now.
Connor Bedard
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Latest roster move
- White noise
Nick Lardis
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Latest roster move
- Projected slot
Frank Nazar
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Latest roster move
- White noise
Oliver Moore
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
Ryan Greene
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
Summer 2027
Free-agent targets
Pending UFAs (26 to 32, no extension signed) in this club's need lanes. The current cap hit is shown for reference, not as an estimate of the next contract.
Jason Robertson (DAL)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
Dmitri Voronkov (CBJ)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
Alex DeBrincat (DET)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
Kirill Marchenko (CBJ)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
League context
Where the market is going
Price of production at signing: cap hit per point of pace in the season before the deal, from the sourced contract ledger. Samples depend on how many deals are priced.
The ledger holds contracts still active in 2026-27, so one- and two-year deals signed in 2024 are missing from the 2024 column. Segments with different term mixes are therefore not comparable here; the term-matched reading is the pricing study on the integrity page.
Goalies: by raw save percentage, a goalie's season after changing teams is almost unrelated to the one before (correlation across moves, vs for goalies who stayed). Adjusted for shot quality the gap disappears ( stayed vs moved): the system changes the shots a goalie faces, so judge goalies on goals saved above expected. of established-goalie trades returned a first-round pick against for productive skaters ( goalie trades: a small sample).
Largest cap hits signed in summer 2026: Leo Carlsson (), Connor Bedard (), Cutter Gauthier (), Pavel Dorofeyev (), Alex Tuch ().
Ask the Chicago Blackhawks assistant GM
Answers use only the ideas above, the club's contracts and trades, and the CBA, and cite each one. If the facts do not support an answer, it says so.
GM horizon
Kyle Davidson: 4.6 years in
How long GMs have lasted since 1967, and what that implies for a GM who has served this long. A GM who expects to be gone soon has a reason to buy today; this is the base rate, not a read on him.
Win-now premium
Chicago Blackhawks: what deadline rentals cost
A rental is a pending unrestricted free agent bought between January 1 and the deadline. Its price is the pick value sent, in expected career NHL games. Part of a price can be rational: a win is worth more to a club on the playoff line. This splits the price above the league mean into what the standings on the trade date explain and what they do not.
Win value is the rise in the club's chance of reaching the playoff line from one more win, in percentage points. Units are expected career games of the picks sent; a price in cap-share dollars needs the Worth model on rentals, which is not adopted. Not netted: the rental's quality, salary retained by the seller, and players or prospects sent. A rental's expiry is quoted from the trade's NHL.com story, or from the contract archive where the story is silent (an archive expiry can be a restricted one).
Farm-system consensus · front-office read
This is a deep system with multiple ways to produce NHL value; do not reduce it to one headliner.
- 01Map every realistic graduation before buying a veteran blocker.
- 02Price surplus prospects by role probability, not name recognition.
- 03Protect the premium ceiling; trade from repeated position depth.
Draft picks · 2027–2029
Chicago Blackhawks picks
Every round for the next three drafts: the club's own picks, picks it has acquired, and picks it has traded away, with any conditions. "Own" means the pick was checked against the club's trades since 2023; "Own, unconfirmed" means no trade is on record but that check has not been done.
Roster moves · as of 2026-10-17
Chicago Blackhawks roster moves
Waivers, claims, injured-reserve placements, assignments to the minors and signings in the last 45 days, as the club announced them (Sportradar NHL API v7, league transfers feed; licensed feed (30-day trial)). Facts, not inferences: no cause is read into an injured-reserve placement, and what each move does to the cap lives on the cap table.
Frank Nazar
Nick Lardis
Connor Bedard
Frank Nazar
Dominic Toninato
Andrew Mangiapane
Dominic Toninato
Sacha Boisvert
Sacha Boisvert
Ryan Roobroeck
Parker Holmes
Ty Henry
Brayden Hislop
Dominic Toninato
Chase Dafoe
Marcus Joughin
Connor Bedard
Landon Slaggert
Dominic Toninato
Drew Commesso
Dillon Boucher
Connor Mackey
AJ Spellacy
Connor Mylymok
Sacha Boisvert
Brett Seney
Marek Vanacker
Martin Misiak
Jiri Felcman
Dylan Anhorn
Taige Harding
Cavan Fitzgerald
Samuel Savoie
Paul Ludwinski
Gavin Hayes
Adam Gajan
Jake Furlong
Ashton Cumby
Stanislav Berezhnoy
Derrick Pouliot
Derrick Pouliot
Chase Dafoe
Brayden Hislop
Marcus Joughin
Injury listings · as of 2026-10-18
Chicago Blackhawks injury listings
What the club has published (Sportradar NHL API v7, league injuries feed; licensed feed (30-day trial)): status, body area, listed-since and expected-return dates. CapOrCup infers no cause from a listing and keeps its own availability measure, games not dressed, separate.
Waiver wire · last 3 league days
Placed on waivers, league-wide
Every player any club placed on waivers in the last three league days, with what the feed shows next: claimed, cleared to the minors, or nothing yet. A claim costs no assets, only a roster spot and the whole contract, and claiming priority follows the standings.
Jacob Bernard-Docker
Aatu Raty
Alex Barre-Boulet
Fit components (description)
Who fits here: fit: not yet validated
No ranking of who fits Chicago Blackhawks is shown until the move backtest passes. What follows describes how Chicago Blackhawks plays and is coached, and the roster rules any addition must clear. The lane-based matchmaker stays on the Assistant GM.
Head coach: , in charge since 2025-10-07 (86 regular-season games on file). Assistants: Not on file.
How this staff has used players (2025-26), against what position and prior minutes predict:
Contracts counted toward the 50 limit: . Active roster for the 23-man limit: Not on file.
as of 2026-04-16
Chicago Blackhawks
trades
Chicago Blackhawks receive
GM: Kyle Davidson
- 2026 2nd-round pick ()
New Jersey Devils receive
GM: Sunny Mehta
- 2026 2nd-round pick ()
- 2026 4th-round pick ()
Ottawa Senators receive
GM: Steve Staios
Chicago Blackhawks receive
GM: Kyle Davidson
- 2027 6th-round pick · now owned by CHI
Chicago Blackhawks receive
GM: Kyle Davidson
Buffalo Sabres receive
GM: Jarmo Kekalainen
- Louis Crevier
- 2026 1st-round pick ()
- 2026 2nd-round pick ()
Tampa Bay Lightning receive
GM: Julien BriseBois
- Jack Pridham
Chicago Blackhawks receive
GM: Kyle Davidson
- 2027 3rd-round pick · now owned by CHI
Chicago Blackhawks receive
GM: Kyle Davidson
New York Rangers receive
GM: Chris Drury
- Aidan Thompson
Minnesota Wild receive
GM: Bill Guerin
Chicago Blackhawks receive
GM: Kyle Davidson
- Future considerations
Edmonton Oilers receive
GM: Stan Bowman
Chicago Blackhawks receive
GM: Kyle Davidson
- Andrew Mangiapane
- 2027 1st-round pick · conditional · now owned by CHI
Salary retained:
Edmonton Oilers receive
GM: Stan Bowman
Chicago Blackhawks receive
GM: Kyle Davidson
- 2028 2nd-round pick · now owned by CHI
Salary retained:
Chicago Blackhawks receive
GM: Kyle Davidson
- Ryan Ellis
- Jake Furlong
- 2028 4th-round pick · now owned by CHI
San Jose Sharks receive
GM: Mike Grier
- Laurent Brossoit
- Nolan Allen
- 2028 7th-round pick · now owned by SJS
Vancouver Canucks receive
GM: Patrik Allvin
Chicago Blackhawks receive
GM: Kyle Davidson
- 2027 4th-round pick · now back with VAN
Florida Panthers receive
GM: Bill Zito
- 2025 7th-round pick · No. 197
Chicago Blackhawks receive
GM: Kyle Davidson
- 2026 7th-round pick
Vancouver Canucks receive
GM: Patrik Allvin
Chicago Blackhawks receive
GM: Kyle Davidson
- Future considerations
Chicago Blackhawks receive
GM: Kyle Davidson
- 2025 1st-round pick · No. 29
Carolina Hurricanes receive
GM: Eric Tulsky
- 2nd-round pick · No. 34
- 2nd-round pick · No. 62
- 2027 5th-round pick · now owned by SJS
Chicago Blackhawks receive
GM: Kyle Davidson
Seattle Kraken receive
GM: Jason Botterill
- Joe Veleno
Chicago Blackhawks receive
GM: Kyle Davidson
- Ryan Mast
- 2025 7th-round pick
Boston Bruins receive
GM: Don Sweeney
- Victor Soderstrom
Chicago Blackhawks receive
GM: Kyle Davidson
- Aku Raty
- Shea Weber
Utah Mammoth receive
GM: Bill Armstrong
- 2026 5th-round pick
Detroit Red Wings receive
GM: Steve Yzerman
- Petr Mrazek
- Craig Smith
Chicago Blackhawks receive
GM: Kyle Davidson
- Joe Veleno
Florida Panthers receive
GM: Bill Zito
- Seth Jones
- 2026 4th-round pick
Chicago Blackhawks receive
GM: Kyle Davidson
- Spencer Knight
- 2026 1st-round pick
Salary retained:
Carolina Hurricanes receive
GM: Eric Tulsky
Colorado Avalanche receive
GM: Chris MacFarland
Chicago Blackhawks receive
GM: Kyle Davidson
- 2025 3rd-round pick
Salary retained:
Winnipeg Jets receive
GM: Kevin Cheveldayoff
Chicago Blackhawks receive
GM: Kyle Davidson
- Dmitry Kuzmin
How the ledger is built
- 2024–25 onward: parsed from NHL.com's season trade pages, which list every trade. Each card links to the NHL.com announcement.
- 2019–20 to 2023–24: parsed from NHL.com trade announcements tagged to a club. Some trades are missing; those seasons are marked partial.
- "Details incomplete" means the announcement did not state one side; the original sentence is shown instead of a guess.
- Picks in 2027–2029 show their current owner from the verified pick ledger.
Statistical schedule · 2026-27 · as of 2026-10-18
Chicago Blackhawks: difficulty rank #14Range not available
Every game priced by the model with the club's rest state. Difficulty averages four league ranks (opponents , rest , travel , back-to-backs ); expected points is the model's own forecast and depends on the club as much as the schedule. League table on the schedule page.
By month: 2026-09: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2026-10: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2026-11: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2026-12: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2027-01: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2027-02: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2027-03: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2027-04: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back.
Game by game
games
Price is the model's chance for this club at the morning of the game with rest known; it moves when rosters are published. The spot names what the schedule did to the club that night.