Chicago Blackhawks: Three trade packages for Dylan Strome

The Chicago Blackhawks might see Dylan Strome as an expendable player so what would it take for another team to get him in a deal?

The Chicago Blackhawks have had Jonathan Toews as their number one center for a long time now. He has been everything they needed and more since being the third overall pick in the 2006 NHL Draft. Well, as he gets older the team will start to look for their future top-line center. It is going to be near impossible for whoever it is to live up to what Toews has done but they just need some good play from whoever assumes that role.

They drafted Kirby Dach with the third overall pick in the 2019 NHL Draft and he might be the answer. It looked like they were going to have Dylan Strome in the mix for a while too. They still might keep Strome in the long term but drafting Dach would make it easier to trade Strome if they can get something for him.

Strome is a good hockey player. He was acquired by the Blackhawks in a trade that sent Nick Schmaltz to the Arizona Coyotes. In his first year with them, he was awesome. He had 17 goals and 34 assists for 51 points in 58 games after the trade. Well, in 2019-20 he wasn’t quite as productive but he was still good. He had 12 goals and 26 assists for 38 points in 58 games. That is decent production but you would like to see him get back to the level he was at before.

So if the Blackhawks were to trade Strome, which team would want him the most? He would be a great second-line center or even third-line center on most NHL teams. The Blackhawks can either sign him to an extension as he is about to be a restricted free agent or they can trade him to a team willing to do it. Here is a look at some trade packages that might get it done: