Chicago Blackhawks Season Preview: Wings

September 14th, 2010 by TAB BAMFORD Leave a reply »
This is the second part of our preseason series looking at the Blackhawks’ roster heading into training camp in 2010. In the first part, we focused on the centers on the roster. Now, in the second edition, we’ll focus on the skaters that will work with those centers: the wings.

We’re not going to continue beating the “roster turnover” drum here, because that’s an overplayed and overstated piece of the Hawks summer. By now most Hawks fans are just as sick of hearing about the guys that are gone as they are about spending $150 on a jersey with the name of one of the departed on it.

However, for the sake of remembering the wings that the Hawks will have to replace this year, here they are:

Kris Versteeg Dustin Byfuglien Andrew Ladd Ben Eager Adam Burish We already discussed the impact of losing John Madden and Colin Fraser at center, both of whom should be more than adequately replaced by a healthy Dave Bolland and Ryan Potulny. However, at wing there is a unique group leaving the roster that leaves some question regarding how, and who, will take their place.

Let’s circle back to the criti ...

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