Chicago's Rookie Roster

The Stanley Cup champions are taking their rookies up to Toronto for a rookie tournament hosted by the Maple Leafs, which is starting this Saturday. You may notice that a number of the players on the list below my active roster are guys that the Blackhawks picked up in their fire sale deals, some of which are pretty decent prospects. This tournament will be a great chance for the Blackhawks to have a look at these guys in more of a game setting, making wiser decisions for future camp attendees.

Forwards	Defense	Goalies
Patrick Kane	Duncan Keith	Marty Turco
Jonathan Toews	Brian Campbell	Corey Crawford
Patrick Sharp	Brent Seabrook
Marian Hossa	Niklas Hjalmarsson
Troy Brouwer	Jordan Hendry
Tomas Kopecky	Nick Boynton
Dave Bolland	John Scott
Viktor Stalberg
Fernando Pisani
Steele Boomer	Jonathan Carlsson	Joe Palmer
Kyle Beach	Brian Connelly	Alec Richards
Brandon Bollig	Simon Danis-Papin	Kent Simpson
Chris Didomenico	Scott Fletcher
Rob Flick	Shawn Lalonde
Byron Froese	Nick Leddy
David Gilbert	Ryan Stanton
Mirko Hoefflin
Igor Makarov
Jeremy Morin
Philippe Paradis
Brandon Pirri
Ludvig Rensfeldt
Ben Smith

The biggest gaps that need to be filled this Fall will be in the forward ranks, where the Blackhawks did most of their cutting back.  Kyle Beach, Chris Didomenico, Igor Makarov and Jeremy Morin are the four that really intrigue me going into this tournament.  On defense, there is only one real standout and that is Nick Leddy, who might be hard-pressed to crack the Hawks blueline, but I'm sure he'll get a good look at training camp this year.  I can't say that any of the goalies jump out at me, but one or two will probably end up in camp anyways.

It doesn't look like the Blackhawks are in bad shape going into the long-term, some of these names will get some extra development time before making the jump, which should only help them down the road.