Ben Pope of the Chicago Sun-Times: The Chicago Blackhawks pending restricted free agent group includes Dylan Strome, Dominik Kubalik, Drake Caggiula, Slater Koekkoek, and Malcolm Subban. The flattening of the salary cap won’t make it easy on GM Stan Bowman this offseason.
“We do have some decisions to make,” Bowman said. “We have some ideas on what we’re going to do. That process is starting right now. had a couple of meetings since we finished the season, and we’ll have more over the coming weeks.