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Originally Posted by The Cobra
While that didn’t help, the Hawks downfall was really just because their core started aging and playing worse.
Even if those two were making $8M, the Hawks are still a poor team.
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They fell further and faster because of all the good players they had to trade away to stay under the cap with those two monster contracts. I suspect they would be better off now if they had simply let one of them walk and signed the other.
I repeat, the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup in 2015. Toews and Kane's contracts went into effect on July 1 of that year. They lost in the first round in 2016 and have not advanced beyond the first round since then.
That's not aging; that's falling off a cliff.