I know the whole topic is kind of worn out, so I wanted to put a different spin on it. What would Patrick Kane and Artemi Panarin’s production have been like, if they continued to play together through the 2018-19 season? Lucky for me, there are resources and tools available to help me investigate my curiosity.
If Panarin never left Chicago, things would have been a lot different. Brandon Saad would have never returned. Joel Quenneville might still be the head coach of the Chicago Blackhawks right now.
Maybe Stan Bowman doesn’t trade Niklas Hjalmarsson and the defense doesn’t implode.