Morning Bag Skate: NHL to release 2017-18 season schedule June 22

The Chicago Blackhawks will find out their 2017-18 schedule next week. The NHL is expected to announce home openers at 11 a.m. CT Wednesday, June 21 and the full schedule at 2 p.m. Thursday, June 22.

HAWKS

**Hawks hire Brookbank as Rockford assistant (SCH)

**NHL draft story: The time Burish hung up on Hawks (The Athletic)

**Hawks hopeful to sign Sikura after next season (The Athletic)

**Goodbye, Chicago by Scott Darling (The Players’ Tribune)

**Hawks towards the top of 2018 Stanley Cup favorites (SCH)

**Seabrook has ‘zero chance’ of being traded, per report (SCH)

**A complete list of every Hawks pick (SCH)

**Ranking every Hawks 1st-round pick of the past 20 years (SCH)

**Rumors: Hawks will try to move up in 1st round (SCH)

**Every Hawks trade, signing during 2017 offseason in one place (SCH)

CENTRAL DIVISION

**Wild trade Graovac to Caps for draft pick (Hockey Wilderness)

**Wild GM talking possible trades with Vegas but nothing complete (Star Tribune)

**Wild’s Niederreiter ignoring trade rumors, hoping for long-term deal (Star Tribune)

**Predators disclose injuries suffered during playoffs (The Tennessean)

**Preds GM Poile stresses improvement in NHL's review process (The Tennessean)

**A year later, Subban still impactful for Preds (The Tennessean)

NHL

**NHL salary cap could go as high as $77.5 million next season, per report (SCH)

**SB Nation’s 2017 NHL mock draft (SBN)

**NHL expansion draft 2017: Schedule, rules, and more (SCH)

**Welcome to Knights On Ice, SB Nation’s Vegas site (Knights On Ice)

**Hockey is coming to Vegas, and it’s going to work (Knights On Ice)

**Vegas announces preseason schedule, training camp dates (Knights On Ice)

**Rangers to buy out Girardi (Blueshirt Banter)

**Rangers extend Puempel — 1 year, $750K (PHT)

**Holland: Red Wings not prepared to trade with Vegas to protect players (Sportsnet)

**Mason’s agent suggests return to Flyers is unlikely (Broad Street Hockey)

**Senators’ Karlsson to miss 4 months after foot surgery (Silver Seven)

**Senators part ways with Neil (Silver Seven)

**Senators will not extend qualifying offer to O’Connor (Silver Seven)

**Bruins re-sign Cross — 1 year, 2-way contract (Stanley Cup of Chowder)

**Petersen's rep mum on goalie's plans for Sabres, NHL (The Buffalo News)

**Panthers promote McCabe to director of player personnel (PHT)

HOCKEY WORLD

**USA Hockey unveils Bills-themed sweater for world junior outdoor game in Buffalo (Buffalo Rumblings)

**Red Wings’ AHL affiliate wins Calder Cup (Winging It In Motown)

**Report: Moscow Dynamo players on strike over unpaid wages (PHT)

**Devils d-man Stollery signs with KHL’s Dinamo Riga (PHT)

**Beck signs one-year deal with KHL’s Avtomobilist (PHT)