Examples Of Players The Blue Jackets Neither Want Nor Need

Created by: Viqsi

Initial Creation Date: Jul 17, 2020

Published: Jul 17, 2020 at 10:21

Team: 2019-20 Custom Team

Legend

Lefthanded

Original Team

Righthanded

Position

No Move/Trade Clause

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000

NMC

UFA - 5

Team Explanation

This is not exhaustive - there's obviously many others - but these are the ones that show up with some high frequency. Particularly in proposals involving Josh Anderson, although one or two show up in Savard and/or "for picks" proposals as well.

The astute observer will note that there are three common trends going on here:

#1: "I heard you need offense, so here's a depth scoring winger."
(We've got a ton of those already. Indeed, that's pretty much 90% of our offense as is. Stuffing in more does not improve the team - they're not going to get the minutes they need; those minutes just aren't available. So it's not worth it to us.)

#2: "I heard you needed centers, so here's a depth/project center."
(We have plenty of depth centers; what we actually need is a #2C - and we already have four "project" guys, so spending otherwise valuable assets to acquire another is not going to help as there's not enough room for them all as is.)

#3: Any Left Defense Whatsoever
(Learn to read a depth chart and go away.)

EDIT 2020-07-18: Added Derek Ryan to the list, because apparently you have to explicitly enumerate these things when dealing with Flames fans.

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
14	$81,500,000	$29,027,499	$0	$2,550,000	$52,472,501

Roster

Left Wing	Center	Right Wing
Baertschi, Sven $3,366,666 LW UFA - 2	Bennett, Sam $2,550,000 C, LW RFA - 2	Kapanen, Kasperi $3,200,000 RW RFA - 3
Roussel, Antoine $3,000,000 LW NTC UFA - 3	Jankowski, Mark $1,675,000 LW, C RFA - 1
Lehkonen, Artturi $2,400,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Ryan, Derek $3,125,000 RW, C UFA - 2
Johnsson, Andreas $3,400,000 LW UFA - 4	Mittelstadt, Casey $925,000 C RFA - 1
	Thompson, Tage $925,000 C, RW RFA - 1
	Jost, Tyson $885,833 C, LW, RW RFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Kulak, Brett $1,850,000 LD UFA - 3
Pilut, Lawrence $925,000 LD RFA - 1
-Nearly-, Anybody Else Here $800,000

Special Teams

Penalty Kill 1
	Bennett, S.	Jankowski, M.
	Lehkonen, A.	Mittelstadt, C.

Top Comments

Jul 17, 2020 at 10:22

KakkoForMauriceRichardAward

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Kerfoot

Jul 17, 2020 at 10:24

Viqsi

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Quoting: KakkoForMauriceRichardAward

Kerfoot

I kept him off the list because I didn't want to pick on the Leafs too much.

Jul 17, 2020 at 10:26

MatthewsDynasty

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Ok lets trade Johnsson then for Savard :tearsofjoy

Jul 17, 2020 at 10:27

Sabres923

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Just curious what’s the plan for Wennberg is he going to get bought out?

Jul 17, 2020 at 10:30

Viqsi

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Quoting: Sabres923

Just curious what’s the plan for Wennberg is he going to get bought out?

There's certainly a lot of Jackets fans who are desperately hoping he will be. I tend more towards "buy him out if we need the cap space, otherwise, meh, whatever". What Kekalainen does with him is anyone's guess.