From hockeysfuture.com: (link)The Blackhawks hold seven picks going into the 2009 NHL Entry Draft next weekend. Chicago will pick 28th overall in the first round and hold their own pick in each of the first five rounds. Their sixth round pick was traded to the
Los Angeles Kings during last year's draft for a 2008 sixth rounder, which was spent on defenseman
Braden Birch. One of their two seventh rounders in the 2009 draft was compensation from Florida for defenseman Magnus Johansson, who played in
Russia last season.
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