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Originally Posted by Iniggywetrust
At first this makes no sense for the Blackhawks but I wonder how much of this deal was them wanting their own 3rd round back in order to facilitate an offer sheet in the summer.
With top defensemen like Hughes, Dobson, and (yuck) Bouchard, not to mention Center Wyatt Johnston all coming up as RFAs and the offer sheet door squeaked open by Armstrong in St. Louis, there may be an appetite for go big game RFA hunting for Chicago.
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By the time they can offer anybody an offer sheet the draft will be over. So, none of this deal was about that.