Since it’s becoming the topic du jour in Chicago — and around the NHL — let’s talk about the Blackhawks’ willingness to trade the No. 4 overall pick in the 2026 NHL Draft. It seems every insider has recently reported Kyle Davidson’s phone is fully charged and ready to receive texts and/or calls on the pick — but the return would have to be significant to move out of the spot.
From what I have heard, the Blackhawks are open for business on any and all of the draft picks they own in 2026 and beyond. Chicago owns three picks in the first round of 2027 and multiple second-round picks in each of the next three drafts.
On Thursday, Scott Powers wrote the Blackhawks are “more willing than ever to listen to offers” on their picks in this draft or in the future.
However, I want to circle back to something Powers wrote earlier this week about how the Blackhawks might use their draft capital this year in the first part of his mailbag earlier. He was asked about the Hawks packaging second-round picks to move up into the first round, something Davidson has done multiple times since taking over as the Hawks’ general manager. Here’s part of Scott’s response:
The Blackhawks have used those second-rounders in the past to move up into the first round. Unless there’s someone they really want, I tend to think they may sit back and make all three of those picks. They can especially fill a need for defenseman depth with this draft.
There are a handful of good defense prospects in the second and third rounds this year who could be seen as pieces in a potential next wave on the Blackhawks’ blue line. The talent on the back end isn’t exclusive to the first round in 2026; there are guys who might become nice NHL players who will likely be available into the third round. So the Hawks having three picks in the second round and their own in the third is good.
I will also note that the IceHogs’ depth chart on the back end isn’t empty. The Blackhawks have three left-handed defensemen — Jake Furlong, Taige Harding and 32-year-old Derrick Pouliot — under contract thru next season. Rockford also announced they signed left-handed defenseman Ashton Cumby to a two-year AHL deal on Thursday. So the cupboard isn’t totally bare, even if fans don’t see an NHL impact from any of those four players in the near future.
But, as always, the draft is a crapshoot and you never know how it’s going to work out. And all it takes is the right phone call or another team making a surprising pick/trade to throw the whole planning process into the blender.
As an aside, one player I could see the Blackhawks trading back into the first round to get if they think he could go before No. 34 overall is Russian power forward Gleb Pugachyov. He feels like a strong potential Davidson target in this draft. (Feel free to write that one down.)
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