Ville Pokka Sent Back To Rockford
On Monday the Blackhawks sent defenseman Ville Pokka back to Rockford.
This means one of Jan Rutta or Cody Franson is ready to return to the lineup when the Hawks are back in action on Thursday.
On Monday the Blackhawks sent defenseman Ville Pokka back to Rockford.
This means one of Jan Rutta or Cody Franson is ready to return to the lineup when the Hawks are back in action on Thursday.
I feel bad for Poke. So close, and yet so far away, from getting into his first NHL game. He was the last hope to get something useful from the Leddy trade, which will go down as one of Stan’s absolute worst. I am not complaining about trading him, it was Leddy or Oduya to get under the cap. We kept Oduya and won the Cup, that tells me the right decision was made there. But holding onto Leddy until training camp when everyone knew you had to trade him robbed the Hawks of any chance of getting any value out of that trade. The great move of Cam Barker for Nick Leddy is lessened by turning Leddy into Pokka.
pokka can’t even get any comments on an article….ouch~!