It's All-Star break time. This means that we've got a few days with little to no Blackhawks news. However, since nature abhors a vacuum, there have already been people looking around the NHL trying to see what trade opportunities are available to the Chicago Blackhawks.

Here's the cold, hard fact: There really aren't many. There's actually a little cap space, thanks in part to a lot of guys making bupkus and the shuffling of Nick Leddy to and from the Rockford roster. So Hawks' GM Stan Bowman is most likely looking at a quiet 25 days until the Trade Deadline.

However, the Blackhawks basically have three groups of guys: guys they don't want to (or can't) move, guys nobody wants, and the other guys.

Let's start with the first group:

CAN'T MOVE

Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane, Duncan Keith and Marty Turco all have no-movement clauses. A couple people have thrown Kane's name out there, and maybe he'd consider waiving, but I don't think John McDonough would ever in a million years greenlight moving one of the two most marketable players he has.

Niklas Hjalmarsson is untradable until this summer. Since he signed an offer sheet and the Blackhawks matched, the Hawks can't trade him for 1 year. So forget it.

Brian Campbell has a limited no-trade clause. He can designate 8 teams he can be traded to, but the Hawks have 45 days to trade him after they ask for his teams. Campbell has said in the past the Hawks already have his list, but considering the unsteady play of the reigning Norris Trophy winner, I'm sure he's in the "Don't Want To" category. Which brings us to...

DON'T WANT TO MOVE

Patrick Sharp. $3.9 million a year seems like a truckload of money, but based upon NHL player dollars, Sharp is grossly underpaid. And he's still got another year at this level. Even considering trading him would be insanity. Besides, who in the league is anywhere near Sharp's production at a comparable price? Steven Stamkos? Yeah, good luck with that.

Brent Seabrook. Again, based upon some of the other contracts defensemen in Seabrook's class have signed lately, he's underpaid at $3.5 million. Stan Bowman recently said contract talks with Seabrook are "heating up". I'd be shocked if he doesn't have a new deal by the time the playoffs begin.

Now there are two guys you never trade - your core guys and your bargains. The two biggest bargains right now are Troy Brouwer and Bryan Bickell. Brouwer is making a hair over a million, he has 15 goals, and has seen his career numbers trend upward in his three years as a Blackhawk. He should beat last year's 22G 18A pretty handily, and he's been a physical presence. Basically, there's no room for improvement with the money the Hawks have left.

Bickell should just kill his agent now. He's signed for under $600K for three years. He already has 12 goals, which is usually moer than you'd expect out of that type of salary slot. He should land in the 15-20 goal area for the season. Yeah, he should just kill his agent now.

Corey Crawford. He's your goalie.

According to Capgeek, Marian Hossa has neither a no-trade nor a non-movement clause. I'm guessing that's just an oversight on their part. Even if there isn't one, I can't imagine the Hawks wanting to move him at this stage of the game.

Know what? Call me crazy, but I'll even put Tomas Kopecky here. He's having a career year in a contract year. The Hawks are getting a decent amount of production - if they were not in playoff contention, this would be the perfect "sell high" guy. However, since they're looking to keep the golf clubs in storage for a while, it's probably a good idea to keep him around.

Dave Bolland. Speaking of "sell high"...Bolland still has three years left on his deal after this one, and there's no clause preventing him from being moved. However, like Kopecky, he's more useful to the Hawks now that he'd be in bringing someone else in. Now if he could just win some faceoffs...

There are also guys like Leddy, Jeremy Morin, Dylan Olsen, etc., guys who look to be part of the future. At this point, the Hawks really don't need to mortgage their future. They're not in "win now" mode. They just won.

This brings us to...

GUYS NOBODY WANTS

Jack Skille, Jake Dowell, Nick Boynton, John Scott,

THE OTHER GUYS

Ryan Johnson, Fernando Pisani, Jordan Hendry, Viktor Stalberg. They each have some value, but Pisani and Hendry are skating regular shifts these days, and Stalberg has been a regular all season.

So, at least to my way of thinking, the Hawks are in this strange type of limbo where there really aren't a lot of options that make sense.

Now that I've written this, and you've read it, I fully expect Stan to do something within the next 48 hours that will invalidate this whole damn thing.