Morning Bag Skate: 8-31-18

BLACKHAWKS

**4 Hawks make Sportsnet’s top 100 NHL players list (SCH)

**Former Hawk of the Week: Tuomo Ruutu (SCH)

**Hawks prospect Söderlund playing in Champions Hockey League (SCH)

**Hawks T25U25: Alex DeBrincat at No. 2 (SCH)

CENTRAL DIVISION

**Wild T25U25: Nick Swaney at No. 22 (Hockey Wilderness)

NHL

**Flames sign Hanifin to $29.7M, 6-year deal (Matchsticks and Gasoline)

**Flames’ Monahan feels ‘like a new man’ after offseason surgeries (NHL.com)

**Dansk honors Vegas shooting victims with new mask (Knights On Ice)

**Rangers are Panarin’s preferred destination, per report (theScore)

**State of the Franchise: Uncertainty of Bobrovsky, Panarin futures casts a pall on Blue Jackets (The Athletic)

**Why…