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We've got a lot to get to today.

We're going to do mailbag stuff.

And usually we just kind of rifle through the diehard mailbag. We're going to do that a little bit later.

We've had so many people reach out to us over the last few weeks based on

a couple different conversations. You've had a couple weeks ago, Frank Saravale was on

CHSN, revealing what he thought the Hawks lineup was going to look like next year. Then you

had Elliott Friedman a couple days ago on 32 thoughts. Say he thinks the Hawks are going to be active in the off season.

Maybe not as strong of a comment from Friedman when you actually hear it.

But we're going to get into that, all that stuff.

So let's just start it right there.

Next year's team, the 2026-27 Blackhawks.

You and I talked about it last night gregg after the postgame show

we are getting very very close to the arrivals of sasha bwaver and anton frondell the assumption

as well as that roman cancer off will be a part of things next year um already you're kind of out of

roster spots if you think all those guys are going to play in the NHL.

Yeah, there's not a lot of spots available

next season when you look at it.

The guys that are currently on the roster

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