I'd much rather keep Bemstrom if it's possible; I really do think he's going to be Bjorkstrand 2.0. Certainly wouldn't go for signing De Haan in his place.

What's the point of de Haan?

I only traded Bean because he has a good contract with easy money to move, and could be apart of CHI's rebuild.

Another Big Body Defensive D-Man. In this scenario, Bean is an easy contract to move and create roughly $1M in cap space to sign Laine. Like Jarmo said, the Blue Jackets don't have a problem scoring, we have a problem keeping the puck out of our net.

So Bean being traded makes sense to you?

I can live with losing Bean. Part of that is that we have the defensive depth and I'm not as high on him, but the bigger, far more important bit is that his value is still generally apparent. Bemstrom's isnt, as is evidenced by the number of AGMs that treat him as a cheap throwin or even let him walk. So that's a move we could easily end up regretting.

Fair enough.