With all the recent replays of older games, a familiar, but the now traded player has once again graced the screen in a Chicago Blackhawks jersey, Niklas Hjalmarsson.
Hammer was probably one of the best defencemen the Blackhawks have had on the team over the last ten years, and when he was traded Chicago lost an important element to their team, grit.
It was hard to see him traded, but at the time it made sense. You couldn’t really watch him play and think, “this guy is going to have a long career.