Happy Mailbag Monday.

Welcome in to the CHGO Blackhawks podcast.

The draft is over.

Free agency is coming up soon,

and we've got a special guest in studio with us today.

It is Jack Bushman from Locked on Blackhawks.

It's a big week. Jack, thanks for being here, man. Appreciate it. Thank you both so much for having me.

As someone who regularly tunes into your guys shows, it's cool to come see the digs in the studio.

Everything here is super amazing. So definitely excited to talk about what the Blackhawks may or may not be doing over these next 24 hours.

Well, it's starting to feel like may not be doing.

And before we get into the mailbag, we got a lot of questions.

So we're going to get to all of them as best we can.

But as we've been seeing, you know, news happening around the league and rumors,

you're not hearing the hawk's name in much of anything and we've had you know scott powers and ben pope and mark lazarus over the last month or so kind of hinting that don't expect a very busy day

and as the options are running out it looks like mourner is going to go to Vegas one way or another

other guys are getting scooped up matthew nye signs a contract with toronto so the offer sheet

opportunities are going away, too.

There's just not a ton out there at this point. Yeah, it just doesn't really seem like the

Blackhawks are connected really with anyone even that's going to move the needle whatsoever. And

even from a numbers perspective, kind of just peering at what could be the roster makeup at this

point, when you know they want to be giving kids opportunities to prove themselves and get that experience next kind of just peering at what could be the roster makeup at this point.

When you know they want to be giving kids opportunities to prove themselves and get that experience next year,

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