Drury says you're wrong on both counts and no thanks.

no we dont need another winger

Debrincat is redundant for the Jackets with Gaudreau, Johnson, Laine and Marchenko as the top-6 wings. We would take Stützle for Jenner and a 1st.

“we would take Stützle for Jenner and a 1st” LMAO. yeah man the Sens will take Laine at 50% retained for Dylan Gambrell, too

The thing is Jenner is untouchable. Columbus can't let their current captain who is about to start his tenth year with the club go for anything short of an incredible overpay. He's been pretty open to the public about how he doesn't want to play anywhere else and ultimately I think it's the main reason he currently wears the C. The city loves him. Optically, any trade involving Jenner that doesn't bring in a true franchise player would be seen as a fireable offense for any GM from a city desperate to have players embrace it.

captain being untouchable is totally fair. it’s “I GUESS we’d trade him for Tim Stützle” is such a laughable statement

It's actually just been a running joke with the Jackets fans on this site. It's kind of snowballed since every TDL ACGM for the last 2 years (mostly made by Toronto fans) were trying to package their garbage-time forwards and cap dumps + a 4th rounder for him. The counter offer has become something like "No thanks, how about Matthews extended $2.5x8 for Jake Bean and a third?"

Yeah that's the point. No one seems to realize that Jenner has more value to Columbus than to any other team in the league. In order to move him it would take a young, franchise 1C, which obviously no sane GM is going to do.

I like the idea of signing Jesper Fast and Antti Rantaa.
Joseph for futures clears some Cap space.
I don't think Columbus will move a C for another Wing in DeBrincat, and I don't think Ottawa wants another C in Jenner.
Rangers can keep Lafreniere, He's not the player for Ottawa. He has to play with high end talent to excel, and there is no room for him in Ottawa that would allow him to have success.

If Lafreniere plays with Pinto i Think the Two could set up for a pair of 25 Goal 3rd liners and he would fill the last PP 2 spot perfectly. he would also be first up in a injury situation and potentially take over Girouxs spot in 2-3 years if NY Lets him go for that package you take it and run its absolute gold. I wouldn't do the Columbus trade I Don't Like Jenners defense game and we need a tender if we trade debrincate