Kammala wannan jumla: Blackhawks sun yi wasu saye-saye a ranar farko ta 'yanci ta hanyar sayen tsoffin sojoji Cam Ward, Chris Kunitz da Brandon Manning. Tawagar ta yi babban motsin su na lokacin hutu ta hanyar sauke kwangilar Hossa zuwa Arizona Coyotes ta hanyar cinikin Vinnie Hinostroza, Jordan Oesterle da zagaye na uku na zagaye a cikin
2019 NHL Draft a musayar Marcus Kruger, MacKenzie Entwistle, Jordan Maletta, Andrew Campbell da kuma zagaye na biyar na zagaye a cikin 2019 NHL Draft. Quenneville ya sanya Ward a matsayin mai tsaron raga na kungiyar yayin da Crawford ya rasa wasanni biyar na farko na kakar 2018/19 tare da alamun alamun girgiza kai. Blackhawks sun bude kakar wasa tare da alkawarin 6<unk>2<unk>2 farawa duk da rashin Crawford na farko. Koyaya, bayan sun rasa wasanninsu biyar masu zuwa, an kori babban kocin Quenneville (da mataimakansa Kevin Dineen da Ulf Samuelsson) a ranar 6 ga Nuwamba, 2018. Jeremy Colliton, a baya babban kocin kungiyar AHL ta Blackhawks, Rockford IceHogs, an nada shi babban koci na 38 a tarihin kungiyar.