Blackhawks may be forced to make moves they don't want to with stagnant salary cap.

 The Blackhawks are one of the teams keeping a close eye on the value of the Canadian dollar. If the rumors regarding the salary cap seeing no or minimal increase next season are true the Blackhawks may find themselves in tough scenario. The Blackhawks have $66 million tied up into just 15 players, it doesn’t take a cap genius to figure out that a $69 million dollar cap with that kind of salary would create a situation that could see multiple players shipped out of town, something Stan Bowman is very much aware of:

“Obviously, if the cap doesn’t go up and we keep the exact same team, no, that wouldn’t work,” Bowman said. “You get into all of these hypotheticals, ‘Well, if you keep this guy, that means you can’t keep that guy.’

That means we may see players on the move that would have previously caused cries of blasphemy to be shouted from the streets of Chicago. Names like Patrick Sharp, Bryan Bickell and even Brent Seabrook. Bowman stands firm in his decisions to invest heavily in his stars, and given his success it’s hard to argue.

“The one thing that trumps everything is you need great players on your team, and great players make a lot of money,” Bowman said. “I would much rather be in the position where you’ve got them and you’re trying to make your cap work than to not have them, and then you’re trying to figure things out and trying to say, ‘How do we get good players?’

That’s your Monday rumor round up!