Brent Seabrook News

How sad for him that he didn't feel the love from Blackhawks management, which paid him $18 million -- sight unseen -- for three years when he arrived, mostly to sit around and milk injuries while becoming a fabulous clubhouse lawyer.

Well put together! I think, for your final slide, you could have said the Big Four, because Brent Seabrook is an UFA after two more seasons, and I think the Hawks will try to lock him up at the same time they lock up Keith, Kane & Toews.

Milan Lucic, Andy McDonald, Dan Cleary and Stephane Robidas were among the surprise names on the list of 46 players invited to the Canadian Olympic hockey team's summer orientation camp Thursday.

Hockey Canada has invited 46 players to attend Canada's National Men's Team orientation camp and the list includes Blackhawks forwards Jonathan Toews and Patrick Sharp and defensemen Duncan Keith and Brent Seabrook.

On Wednesday, the Chicago Blackhawks announced that they had signed All-Star wing Marian Hossa, formerly of the Detroit Red Wings, to a 12-year contract that carries an annual salary cap figure around $5... 5 171 reads Opinion On Wednesday, the Chicago Blackhawks announced that they had signed All-Star wing Marian Hossa, formerly of the Detroit Red ...

Maybe it was a car, maybe a big screen TV, but, at some point, you've probably made a big purchase that you came to regret later.

In 2008-09, the Chicago Blackhawks left its recent history in the garbage can and jumped into the class of the NHL's elite teams... by TAB BAMFORD 1 28 reads Preview/Prediction In 2008-09, the Chicago Blackhawks left its recent history in the garbage can and jumped into the class of the NHL's elite teams.

You could always find Ray Ferraro in the heat of the battle through his 1,258 NHL games, but the former Edmonton Oilers broadcaster felt like a helpless bystander at the NHL entry draft, waiting to see what team took his son, Landon.

Dylan Olsen was selected #28 overall by the Blackhawks during the first round of the 2009 NHL Entry Draft at the Bell Centre on June 26, 2009 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

The Blackhawks' much-improved season has one drawback: General manager Dale Tallon won't have the high draft picks he has been used to getting when the NHL entry draft is held today and Saturday in Montreal.

Last summer, the youngest team in the National Hockey League needed some help. So they spent some money.

Here is a list of the players the Blackhawks currently have under contract as well as those who will be free agents in the defensive core.

Pardon Duncan Keith if he's spending a little extra time on the couch these days.

Editor's note: This is the last of a three-part series on the future of the Chicago Blackhawks.

Thanks to their deep postseason run, the Blackhawks have less time before the start of the 2009-10 season to improve their team than previous years.

It looked closer than it was, this Western Conference final between the upstart Blackhawks and the been-there-done-that Red Wings.

The Blackhawks' storybook season came to a pulsating conclusion Wednesday. The result wasn't what the young club wanted -- a 2-1 overtime loss to the Stanley Cup champion Detroit Red Wings -- but there were no heads hanging over this one.

Unforgettable -- that pretty much sums up the Blackhawks' 2008-09 season, which produced more lasting memories than perhaps the last 10 seasons combined.

Detroit centre Darren Helm had barely rammed the puck into the Chicago Blackhawks' net for a 2-1 Red Wings' overtime win Wednesday and another Western Conference title and almost immediately, thoughts turned toward a rerun.

Through two games, the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks played more like old friends -- competitive, but more than accepting of each other's presence, with mild tempers from both sides.