Recently Pierre LeBrun reported that the Los Angeles Kings were open to trading defenseman Alec Martinez and my initial thought was, the Chicago Blackhawks could really use an upgrade on defense with the losses of Brent Seabrook and Calvin de Haan coupled with Dennis Gilbert and Slater Koekkoek’s uneven play.
Then I took a step back and was like, why? Why do we want to continue to crowd the blue line with middling defenseman or do we want there to be space for players like Gilbert, Adam Boqvist and hopefully Ian Mitchell to get their experience at the NHL level.