Blackhawks GM Stan Bowman isn’t one to negotiate contracts with players through the media. So it wasn't surprising when he, earlier in the week, declined to discuss the statuses of the Blackhawks' pending restricted and unrestricted free agents out of respect for the process.
Perhaps the biggest name of that group is Robin Lehner, who will be an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season for the third straight year. He signed a one-year, $5 million deal with the Blackhawks on July 1 and has been worth every penny.
With the window to begin negotiating contract extensions with pending UFAs having opened on Jan.