Hawks Re-Sign Three

The Blackhawks are wasting little time getting some of their key young players signed up this Spring. From the Blackhawks website on Tuesday, it was announced that the team signed three of their potential restricted free agents; Dustin Byfuglien, Adam Burish and James Wisniewski. No terms of the deals were announced straight away, but the team will be happy to have them under contract for another season.

Byfuglien had a breakout year for the Hawks, scoring 19 goals and 36 points in 67 games, while playing some really good hockey for the team. He switches between forward and defense for the squad, but as for a pool listing, he is considered more to be a defenseman.

Burish played in 81 games for the team last season, scoring 8 points (4G, 4A). Burish was also added to Team USA for the World Championships and is considered more to be an energy winger on the third line. Not a very solid pool pick, unless he finds some hands and he could be a waiver draft pick-up during the year.

Wisniewski is coming along as a solid defender for Chicago. The 24 year old scored 7 goals and 26 points in 68 games this past season and a healthy year could mean some good things, both for the team and in a pool. He should be in most keeper pools as his potential is starting to be reached.

Forwards	Defense	Goaltenders
Patrick Kane	Duncan Keith	Nikolai Khabibulin
Patrick Sharp	Dustin Byfuglien
Jonathan Toews	Brent Seabrook
Robert Lang	James Wisniewski
Martin Havlat	Brent Sopel
Craig Adams	Cam Barker
Adam Burish

Without adequate salary information, it's near impossible to say where the Hawks now stand in their cap situation, but they had more than enough room to move under the cap and all three players are almost too young to earn big dollars, so we can assume they are more than safe.