Équipe: 2023-24 Blue Jackets de Columbus

Date de création initiale: 16 avr. 2023

Publié: 16 avr. 2023

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

Jarmo is going to want to focus on this summer on getting more experienced veterans to prove to ownership that he doesn't want to be the youngest team in the league anymore and transition out of a rebuild. He will spend a fair amount of draft capital to do so to signal that he ready to take the next step.

-Spite the change in front office Flyers will still want to trade off Hayes as they want to start a rebuild instead of a buyout. Blue Jackets need a more consistent player in the center to hold down until (Carlsson) is ready to play in 2/3 years time. Blue Jackets will ask for some retention as they need to make defensive moves to sure up their Blue Line and help them pay for Marchenko/KJ/Chinahov/Sillinger's bridge deals next year that could eat up to 10 mil off the cap for 24-25 season.

Jarmo will want to focus on the 2 glaring weaknesses of the team: Blue Line and Goaltending. While in this team I do not expect all of these transactions to happen but for fun I am going to say they all will!

-Jarmo has already signaled that the 1st overall from the kings will be for a top4 D. Most would expect a LHD (and probably will be) but in this team I am going to use it for Murphy. Murphy doesn't want to deal with a rebuild in Chicago and will wave to "come home" to Ohio and along side Gudbranson be an experience veteran helping our up and coming Dmen like Jiricek, Cuelmans, Mateychuck and Svoliz arrive. Ideally this combined 8 mil will be used one day for their bridge deals for whoever of these D candidates make the league.

-Jarmo is going to use the money originally allocated for Gavrikov and try to overpay Graves to come here. We need 3 or so years for Mateychuck to be fully developed and not rushed/ruined like we have in the past. With this payment we don't need to worry about rushing him to the league. Hopefully this will seem like an overpayment for the rest of the league and he will come here to get "paid"

-Zadorov is a band-aid for 1 year as a Bean-Gudbranson combo was one of the worst in the league at a point this year. Zadorov will be a Bean rental so we don't need to rush Svoliz into the league until injuries start to happen. Also between Zadorov/Gudbranson hopefully these two big boys will help clear anyone who is parking near the crease on D-Zone faceoffs that plagued this team during the year.

-Bean is sent to Ducks to help with their current defensive situation which is probably worse than ours. I put 3rd here but I would take a 4th Ducks fans. Hopefully this bandaid will help your team out as Bean isn't THAT BAD but I personally don't like the current Bean-Gudbranson pairing.

-Goaltending is also a major concern for the team. I am going to sell "high" on Boqvist as I seen from Buffalo fans they would like to have an offensive oriented RHD. Buffalo has a major issue with their Goalie situation so we are going to do a hockey trade to help them out. I couldn't decide which one to put in this but seems like there's a major love/hate relationship with UPL there so we are going to take him off their hands. We are going to have Tarasov stay down in the AHL and see if Elvis is ready to go and UPL to back up. If either get's hurt Tarasov comes up. As all 3 have to clear waivers (well Elvis technically does but nobody is going to take it) this is a major risk but we are in a situation where SOMETHING needs to happen here. This is by far are most pressing issue to deal with this summer to figure out and there is no magic bullet.

You will notice "WHY NO JIRICEK (or Sillinger?)". Well I want them to start in the AHL and then come up to be permanent fixtures on this team once the injuries start to happen because they always do. Sillinger is probably going to end up as a 2/3C and McKown is playing strong. If Sillinger gets his game back this would allow much needed flexibility in the team positioning allowing Jenner to go back to LW if back issues are starting to become a concern again. Voronkov starts the fall in AHL similar to Marchenko and probably would be the 3/4th callup (I can see TFW coming up as #3).

If Jiricek is ready to go by the time the TDL comes around Peeke will be dealt to permanently make room for him. Robinson will be either dealt this summer or by TDL. Texier, if he comes back, will probably be dealt or given a bridge deal if he truly wants to commits to this team. The idea is to have a strong team for now but trade off aging contracts to pay for the kids as the cap is expected to rise in the next year or two to further help get our boys their bridge deals!

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