A ranar 1 ga Yuli, Blackhawks sun yi musayar Andrew Ladd zuwa Atlanta Thrashers don Ivan Vishnevskiy da zagaye na biyu na zagaye a
A shekara ta 2011. A ranar 9 ga Yuli, San Jose Sharks sun sanya hannu kan Niklas Hjalmarsson zuwa takardar tayin, kodayake Blackhawks sun dace da tayin a ranar 12 ga Yuli, ta haka ne ya riƙe ayyukansa kuma ya ba da diyya daga Sharks don sanya hannu kan ƙuntataccen wakili. Wannan sa hannu ya sake sanya Chicago a kan bangon albashi, kuma a sakamakon haka ya tilasta wa kulob din yin watsi da mai tsaron gidan Antti Niemi, wanda ya nemi sulhu.