Chicago Blackhawks general manager Kyle Davidson talked to the media for about 45 minutes on Wednesday. I unpacked a lot of it yesterday, and will have some more coming. The links to the three pieces we ran on Wednesday are below. But my biggest takeaway is pretty simple.
If the messaging before the season was more tempered — “we’re going to ask a lot of these young guys and we’re still assessing our roster to see what we need, so please be patient” — there would likely be a lot more consideration from the fans (and media) than universally saying the roster’s good to go and they’re chasing a playoff berth. Davidson took that tone with us yesterday. He’s still confident in the collection of players he’s built over the past 3-4 years. But there are clearly gaps that need to be addressed. The good news is he’s actively looking to address them. We’ll see if/when he’s able to make a deal.
Here are the three pieces from Wednesday:
Davidson on being active, aggressive in the trade market Davidson on fixing the defense, Blashill’s job, Wirtz’s perspective Davidson on owning the Blackhawks’ roster problems, making the case for his rebuildNow, there’s a Blackhawks game tonight! So…
Patrick Kane and Bowen Byram both skated with the full Blackhawks roster in practice on Wednesday. However, Kane was wearing a black jersey and Byram was in gray. According to head coach Jeff Blashill, there as no different distinction between one color or the other; Kane wore the darker color because he was rotating in for reps with forwards wearing red and Byram was rotating in with defensemen wearing white. During his media availability on Wednesday afternoon, general manager Kyle Davidson confirmed Byram is not dealing with a concussion.Bowen Byram practicing pic.twitter.com/RAmeEXMC1N
— Scott Powers (@ByScottPowers) November 11, 2026 A good read here from Scott Powers on Wyatt Kaiser‘s up-and-down season to date. Kaiser will be a restricted free agent after this season. Here’s what Blashill said about Kaiser’s performance thus far after Tuesday’s practice:“I think his season’s been up and down, and I think he knows that,” Blashill said Tuesday. “There’s nights where he’s played well. I thought he went through a stretch early where he was struggling. I thought he got it back playing good. He’s probably had a couple over the last stretch here, certainly last game, that weren’t to the standard that he wants to hold himself to and that we want him to play to. It’s a bit of kind of the roller coaster of the maturation of the player and we just got to keep trying to work with him, and probably specifically D, try to minimize those lows.”
Blackhawks defenseman Wyatt Kaiser has been on the ice for a lot of goals against this season, especially last game. He’d also had stretches where he’s played really well. My story on how Kaiser is working to balance that ⤵️ t.co/G1sWAhgZIf
— Scott Powers (@ByScottPowers) November 11, 2026 Let’s break up this hope parade with some positive vibes. Blackhawks prospect Ryan Roobroeck is absolutely demolishing the OHL right now. Last night he scored twice again, the first a power play goal that held up as the game-winner and the second an insurance goal in the third period. He wakes up on Thursday morning leading the OHL in points (31) and goals (18). Reminder: he’s doing this as a 6-4, 215-pound power forward.Wednesday night ? from #Blackhawks prospect Ryan Roobroeck for @Storm_City pic.twitter.com/wuRMk2kRNg
— Bleacher Nation Blackhawks (@BN_Blackhawks) November 12, 2026Wednesday night ?? from #Blackhawks prospect Ryan Roobroeck for @Storm_City pic.twitter.com/KI1AXENPvN
— Bleacher Nation Blackhawks (@BN_Blackhawks) November 12, 2026 If you haven’t already enrolled in a 12-step program of your choice, Kalen Lumpkins of the Chicago Tribune broke down the first 100 games of Blashill’s tenure as the Blackhawks’ head coach.In Jeff Blashill's 100 games as Blackhawks head coach, the team has scored 2-or-less goals in 53 games. On the other side, they've allowed 4+ goals in 47 games. I dove into the numbers of Blashill's first 100. They are not pretty. (Free to read ⬇️) t.co/gz6Iq2ko2J
— Kalen Lumpkins (@kalenalumpkins) November 11, 2026 Matt Larkin at Daily Faceoff updated his trade big board on Wednesday. In his “Obvious trade candidates” tier, he includes Blackhawks forwards Teuvo Teräväinen and Jordan Greenway. Larkin also includes Ian Cole and Ryan Donato in his “Trade chips later in season if teams sell” tier. Here’s what he wrote about Teräväinen:‘Turbo’ isn’t consistently playing in Chicago’s top six. He’s a pending UFA. He’s just not a fit in the Windy City anymore, and numerous reports indicate the Blackhawks are actively shopping him now. He still has enough raw skill that he could boost someone’s depth scoring and work on their PP2 unit, and he actually has underrated defensive acumen, meaning he could hold his own even if he plays in the bottom six on his next team.
On Tuesday, Kevin Weekes lit the interwebs on fire with his report that Flyers Matvei Michkov wants a change of scenery. On Wednesday, Philadelphia general manager Daniel Briere told Frank Seravalli he has no plans of trading Michkov.“No, that’s not the plan at all,” Briere said. “We’ve never discussed that.”
Meanwhile…"A lot of talk in the last few weeks between Philly & Chicago"David Pagnotta reports multiple Blackhawks players could be available & that Philadelphia has checked in at least one of them. pic.twitter.com/b4LeD7OzaE
— Daily Faceoff (@DailyFaceoff) November 11, 2026 And now this goal from Martin Mišiak in the IceHogs’ late morning game in Grand Rapids on Wednesday. Rockford lost 6-3, with the other two goals coming from Dominic Toninato.Stayin' alive with a goal from Martin Misiak!! pic.twitter.com/5uCiJHAT8w
— Rockford IceHogs (@goicehogs) November 11, 2026 Michael Russo at The Athletic reported the Minnesota Wild will be able to have Brock Faber in their lineup for the first time in the regular season on Saturday. Faber suffered a fractured skull in the team’s final preseason game against Dallas on Sept. 25 and underwent surgery two days later. Finally, an interesting report from Elliotte Friedman from the GM meetings this week about the NHL and NHLPA discussing some tweaks to how the salary cap ceiling escalates in the coming couple years.Under the current three-year agreement — which concludes at the end of next season — the salary cap for 2027-28 will be $113.5 million. At September’s Board of Governors meeting in New York City, the league provided a preliminary estimate of $127.5 million for 2028-29.
What the league and players’ association could agree to is raising next season’s ceiling and lowering the 2028-29 number by the same amount. For example, if they decided to raise 2027-28 by $2 million to $115.5 million, they would drop the following year to $125.5 million. Again, there is nothing concrete at this time, just a willingness to discuss the issue over the next few months.
NHL & NHLPA will discuss possibility of "smoothing" salary cap over next two seasonsExplainer: t.co/CLU47mCKQq
— Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) November 10, 2026BLEACHER NATION: Go Ad Free | Subscribe to the BN Newsletter
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