The Blackhawks have made clear that 2020 first-round pick Lukas Reichel is available for trade “ even in the last few days ,” Scott Powers of The Athletic writes. Teams had been semi-fervently calling Chicago about Reichel’s availability earlier in the offseason, too. Still, he ended up remaining with the organization for a pivotal training camp that kicked off earlier this month.

Those rumors come after a pair of seasons in which Reichel has been given the opportunity higher up in the Hawks’ lineup but failed to establish himself there. He even started the 2023-24 season as the No. 2 center behind Connor Bedard but found himself quickly demoted in the lineup after a woefully unproductive start. That trend continued in 2024-25, where he quietly managed to establish his fl

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