2023-24 CBJ

UNLESS* jiricek is ready to take over top pairing responsibilities. Which I find incredibly unlikely, I don’t see a boqvist trade where there isn’t an upgrade for a center, or a first rounder. But I guess it is Ottawa so it might as well be 😂

(Kidding sens fans)

The sens are never going to run a Brannstrom-Boqvist 3rd pairing, and Brannstrom is the better player by far for what they need. Brannstrom is solid defensively and Boqvist is a disaster.

Boqvist obviously has talent offensively, but on a team that has Chychrun, Chabot and Sanderson, there's just no role for him to fill in Ottawa. They have three horses, you let those horses run, Boqvist wouldn't sniff PP time. There's also a huge question to me about whether Boqvist can even play a full 82 game season.