The Blackhawks must find a way to beat out fellow Original Six teams to get Mike Sullivan

No one should care that David Carle rejected the Chicago Blackhawks so long as the franchise hires Mike Sullivan as the next head coach.

While Carle would have been great at developing the baby Blackhawks, Sullivan has two Stanley Cups on his resume.

He has also worked with Sidney Crosby for close to a decade. Considering Connor Bedard has idolized Crosby, it would be a great idea to bring in the coach who helped Sid add two more Stanley Cups to his Hall of Fame resume.

Carle's NCAA Titles and his pedigree of developing young talent into winners are nice. Sullivan hoisting the Stanley Cup twice is more prestigious.

He is the best available head coach on the market, and the Blackhawks must do whatever they can to have him stand behind their bench.

They will also have to move heaven and earth if the club hopes to beat the New York Rangers and the Boston Bruins for Sullivan's services.

That is the speculated competition.

It means general manager Kyle Davidson must find a way to have the Blackhawks stand out from the other Original Six counterparts.

Sullivan is expected to get a big bag of money at his next coaching stop. The Wirtz family better be willing to bring a big check to the negotiating table.

Money is likely not going to be the only thing that lures Sullivan.

That is where Davidson must sell Sullivan on why the Blackhawks bright future gives Sullivan another shot to raise the Stanley Cup.

Davidson can sell Sullivan on Bedard being a younger version of Crosby, who just needs some guidance to reach that legendary status.

Davidson will also have to leverage young forwards such as Frank Nazar, Oliver Moore, Ryan Greene, Landon Slaggert, and Colton Dach as great supporting pieces around Bedard. Plus, Davidson can also throw in the salary cap space to add an impact player or the draft capital to pull off a trade and get a great player.

A young group of blueline talent that could develop into one of the league's best and having goalie Spencer Knight in place is another selling point.

However, the Rangers were not that far away from making the playoffs. He has ties to the Rangers organization, too. Sullivan has ties to the Bruins, where he got his first NHL head coaching gig.

Also, despite a down year, the Rangers and Bruins have won a lot more than the Blackhawks have. All the Hawks keep doing is finishing in dead last.

Having Bedard and all that young talent still might not be enough, especially since this franchise fired Luke Richardson for at least not winning a few more games this past season.

Despite the job security not being great in the NHL, Sullivan was the longest tenured NHL head coach before today's announcement that the Penguins and him were going their seperate ways.

Sullivan may value an organization that can provide the chance to win right away, so he can have the same stability he had in Pittsburgh before father time finally caught up with the Penguins core.

Still, if the Hawks can pull off hiring Sullivan, it would be a major coup and remove the sting of Carle rejecting Chicago.