The Chicago Blackhawks announced late Wednesday that they traded centers Jason Dickinson and Colton Dach to the Edmonton Oilers in exchange for left winger Andrew Mangiapane and a 2027 first-round draft pick. The Hawks will retain 50% of Dickinson’s salary, and the pick is top-12 protected.
If the Oilers pick top-12 in 2027, they may choose to transfer the pick to 2028. If Edmonton trades its 2028 pick before the 2027 trade deadline, the Hawks would get the 2027 pick unconditionally.
Frank Seravalli and Pierre LeBrun first reported the details of the trade.
Hawks general manager Kyle Davidson was again able to negotiate a higher-than-expected return for one of his veterans, the other being a 2028 second-round draft pick for defenseman Connor Murphy.
Dickinson, 30, was traded to the Hawks from the Vancouver Canucks on Oct. 7, 2022. He scored 30 points (nine goals, 21 assists) in 78 games in his first season with Chicago and signed a two-year, $8.5 million contract with the Hawks on Jan. 16, 2024.
The forward’s best season came in 2023-24, where he scored 35 points (22 goals, 13 assists) and played all 82 games. He also scored a career-high four game-winning goals and ended the year with a +4 plus/minus rating.
He earned the alternate captain’s patch that season after Jonathan Toews took a leave of absence from the NHL. He joined fellow alternate captain Murphy, who was traded to the Oilers earlier this week. Connor Bedard will be an alternate captain for the rest of the season after Murphy’s departure, so Dickinson’s ‘A’ may go to another youngster as well.
Dickinson has missed some time this season for various injury-related reasons. He’s been out of the lineup for 14 games, including 10 on injured reserve due to a shoulder injury.
In his 11-season NHL career, Dickinson has 74 goals and 94 assists across 549 games and 11 game-winning goals. He was selected at No. 29 by the Dallas Stars in the 2013 NHL draft and scored a goal in his NHL debut on April 7, 2016.
The trade has always been a possibility to make room for the incoming Hawks prospects. Before the NHL’s Winter Olympic break, Hawks general manager Kyle Davidson said that he wanted to “keep giving young players opportunity.”
Dach has recently seen healthy scratch status for the Hawks, but remains one of the NHL’s most physical rookies. The center has laid 189 hits this season, 10th-most in the league.
He was selected No. 61 in the 2021 NHL draft. The Oilers will get a bottom-six forward who is both an enforcer and an energy magnet.
It’s another deal done with Oilers general manager Stan Bowman, who held the same position with the Hawks from 2009-2021, winning three Stanley Cups. He resigned after the team’s sexual assault case against video coach Brad Aldrich came to light. Then-assistant general manager Davidson became interim and later full-time general manager of the Hawks following Bowman’s departure.
Mangiapane has scored 14 points (seven goals, seven assists) in 52 games played with the Oilers this season. He signed a two-year, $7.2 million contract with Edmonton last July, a $3.6 million average annual value.