{"id":585949,"date":"2026-05-28T23:21:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/585949\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T23:21:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:21:45","slug":"blackhawks-4th-overall-pick-makes-latest-nhl-trade-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/585949\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackhawks&#8217; 4th Overall Pick Makes Latest NHL Trade Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NHL insider Chris Johnston released his first 2026 NHL off-season trade board for The Athletic. While no current <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nhl\/teams\/chicago\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chicago Blackhawks;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Chicago Blackhawks&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> players were listed on Johnston&#8217;s trade board, the Original Six club&#8217;s fourth-overall pick was.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Similar to the scenario with the Sharks at No. 2, the prospect-rich Blackhawks are open to the possibility of moving off a valuable pick if they can get something back that improves them in the present,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7313162\/2026\/05\/28\/nhl-offseason-trade-board-trocheck-knies-robertson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Johnston wrote;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Johnston wrote&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Johnston wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>If the Blackhawks were to trade the fourth-overall pick, it would undoubtedly be a major deal. The only way it would make sense for Chicago is if they were bringing in a proven star who would upgrade their group in a significant way.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth-overall pick could a great trading asset for the Blackhawks to use a first-line winger or a high-impact left-shot defenseman. Yet, with the Blackhawks rebuilding, it would also make sense if they decided to keep their fourth-overall pick and bring in another exciting prospect to their system.<\/p>\n<p>It is going to be very interesting to see what the Blackhawks decide to do with the fourth-overall pick. It is likely that there would be a lot of interest in it, but time will tell what the Blackhawks decide to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NHL insider Chris Johnston released his first 2026 NHL off-season trade board for The Athletic. While no current&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5115],"tags":[521,37,96,5263,6865,5,4],"class_list":["post-585949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-blackhawks","tag-blackhawks","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-chicagoblackhawks","tag-chris-johnston","tag-hockey","tag-nhl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116654773576447039","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}