Chicago Blackhawks Send Out Qualifying Offers To 4 of 7 Eligible

The Chicago Blackhawks will be handing out qualifying offers to 4 of the 7 players eligible this offseason.

Ok, first there is a history lesson for everyone. One of the reasons Stan Bowman is the General Manager of the Chicago Blackhawks is because of qualifying offers.

Yes, qualifying offers is a pretty routine thing in the NHL except back in 2009 when they allegedly got lost in a fax machine or whatever.

Dale Tallon, the real architect of the Chicago Blackhawks, royally screwed up sending out qualifying offers back in 2009 to players like Kris Versteeg and Troy Brouwer which started the Chicago Blackhawks ride to salary cap prison because they ended up having to pay more for younger players than they should have had to.

After that mishap the next thing you know, Tallon is gone and Stan Bowman takes over the reigns as the Chicago Blackhawks GM.

Ok, enough about the past. This year there were 7 eligible players to be qualified and by the sounds of it only 4 will be getting the offers. The two in the NHL that of course made sense to get the offers were Dennis Rasmussen and Tomas Jurco.

Now if the Hawks hadn’t given a qualifying offer to Jurco there would have been a real uproar since the Hawks protected him in the expansion draft this past week. There have been stories out there that the Blackhawks have been trying to sign Rasmussen to the League minimum before the expansion draft, but he has not signed a contract as of yet so thus he gets the qualifying offer.