Blackhawks’ Stan Bowman Has to Stop Making Gamble Trades

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Since 2017, Stan Bowman has been trying to make trades to prove he’s a “genius”. So far, none of them have worked out.

Stan Bowman has a long streak of failed hockey trades, first trading Artemi Panarin to Columbus for Brandon Saad, then Niklas Hjalmarsson to the Coyotes for Connor Murphy in the offseason of 2017. This occurred after an announcement that the Blackhawks wanted to “make serious changes” after getting swept by the Nashville Predators.

This was the start of three more “high risk, high reward” trades Stan would make later. Looking back, let’s see how these two trades paid off: Connor Murphy looks to be the…