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The Chicago Blackhaws hit the fast forward button on a couple of players this summer.

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.

Daniel BriA re, eight years, $52 million; Scott Gomez, 10 years, $51.5 million; Chris Drury, five years, $35.25 million; Brian Campbell, eight years, $56.8 million; Wade Redden, six years, $39 million; Markus Naslund, two years, $8 million... It's like a bad dream, isn't it? Oh, but it can get worse: Sean Avery, four years, $15.5 million; Ryan ...

Twenty-one months. That's how long Rocky Wirtz has been the chairman of the Blackhawks.

After signing big-money free agents like Nikolai Khabibulin , Brian Campbell and Cristobal Huet over the last few summers, the Chicago Blackhawks have kept the momentum going by signing star winger Marian Hossa to a 12-year contract averaging $5.2 million a season.

As ESPN Chicago's Al Ciamaglia notes, the Chicago Blackhawks' move to sign Red Wings forwards Marian Hossa and Tomas Kopecky, at least in terms of Hossa's massive 12-year contract at an average of $5.2 million per season, puts the Hawks in a bit of a cap bind: July 1, ESPN Chicago : The Hawks may have to make more transactions to put themselves ...

Making selections in the NHL entry draft that concluded Saturday was an easy task for Blackhawks general manager Dale Tallon compared to what awaits him in the next few days.

Gentlemen, open your wallets. The Canada Day bonanza is just hours away. The NHL's 30 GMs, at least those with money to spend, are getting ready to splurge as this year's crop of free agents hits the market tomorrow.

With the 28th pick the Chicago Blackhawks select... For the first time in quite a long while the Chicago Blackhawks will be picking outside the NHL lottery, actually far from it... by Michael Wagner 1 48 reads June 26, 2009 With the 28th pick the Chicago Blackhawks select... For the first time in quite a long while the Chicago Blackhawks will be ...

Going into the offseason, the major priority of the Chicago Blackhawks was to resign dynamic forward Martin Havlat.

A stinging overtime loss still fresh on their minds less than 24 hours later, the Chicago Blackhawks were hoping to rest and regroup Wednesday.

Now that the Stanley Cup playoffs have come to their dramatic conclusion, we now turn our attention to the NHL offseason and more importantly, rumor... by Michael Wagner 0 11 reads June 15, 2009 Now that the Stanley Cup playoffs have come to their dramatic conclusion, we now turn our attention to the NHL offseason and more importantly, rumor.

Ottawa Senators general manager Bryan Murray has already received calls and everyone seems to be speculating about where Dany Heatley might land.

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.

It was a homecoming last night at Delaware Speedway for many drivers who cut their racing teeth on the famed half-mile oval.

The Chicago Blackhawks who came home to United Center for Game 3, down 0-2 in the Western Conference final, were not the same confident collection that breezed through their series with the Vancouver Canucks brimming with exuberance.

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

Detroit Red Wings' Dan Cleary, center, battles with Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Brian Campbell, left, and Niklas Hjalmarsson, of Sweden, in the first period of of Game 5 of the NHL hockey Western Conference finals in Detroit, Wednesday, May 27, 2009.

Rated on a scale of one to four octopi: Business as usual Really. With all they had going against them, with all the excuses they could have made, this has to be the Red Wings' signature game of the playoffs.

Ugly, too, is in the eye of the beholder. Brian Campbell, the Chicago defenceman who called Detroit blueliner Nik Kronwall's Game 2 hit on Martin Havlat of the Blackhawks "all-around gutless" said it bore no comparison to his own devastating open-ice hit that knocked Philadelphia's R.J. Umberger sensless in the 2006 playoffs.