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Tkachuk-Style Trade To Upgrade Top Six

Created by: CaseyFlyman

Team: 2023-24 Columbus Blue Jackets

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 11, 2024

Published: Mar. 11, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Legend

Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

Performance Bonus

$250,000)

C

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

For reference:

To CGY: Huberdeau, Weegar, Schwindt, 2025 FLA 1st (lottery protected)
To FLA: Tkachuk, 2025 CGY 4th

The premise: Columbus has a lot of young forwards that fit in the top-6 on style of play, but none that are true impact players right now. A roster crunch might force some of them into the bottom-6 or out of town (not ideal), so the idea is to find a young (~25) established NHLer who could break out to be that star player.

It's entirely possible that person is in-house already (Laine), but between Gaudreau, Laine, Johnson, Chinakhov, Marchenko, and one of Fantilli/Jenner/Sillinger/Voronkov, we've got 6 players penciled into 4 top-6 wing spots long-term. None of them are getting moved for a package of futures/picks, but I could see basically any of them being moved for a true Tkachuk-like upgrade.

What are the targets? What would it take? And is it something Columbus even considers, let alone any of these teams?

(And yes, I apologize, I know "insert player here" isn't available. CBJ hears it enough with Boone, Voronkov, Jiricek, etc. That's why the Tkachuk trade is so rare, chances are vary slim, I don't foresee any of these happening.)

Trades

1.

CBJ

Thomas, Robert

STL

2025 1st round pick (CBJ)

Additional Details:

Assets Columbus could potentially send, pick and choose your package (in order of decreasing likelihood to be traded IMO):

Provorov
Boqvist
2025 1st
2026 1st
Laine
Texier
Johnson
Chinakhov
Marchenko
Voronkov
Jenner

Additionally, any non-roster prospect not named Jiricek or Mateychuk (i.e. Dumais)

2.

CBJ

Barzal, Mathew

NYI

See first trade for package options.

3.

CBJ

Robertson, Jason

DAL

See first trade for package options.

4.

CBJ

Bratt, Jesper

NJD

See first trade for package options.

5.

CBJ

Keller, Clayton

ARI

See first trade for package options.

6.

CBJ

Konecny, Travis

PHI

See first trade for package options.

7.

CBJ

Boldy, Matthew

MIN

See first trade for package options.

8.

CBJ

Batherson, Drake

OTT

See first trade for package options.

9.

CBJ

Necas, Martin

CAR

See first trade for package options.

10.

CBJ

Connor, Kyle

WPG

See first trade for package options.

Buyouts

Alexander Wennberg: $891,667

Retained Salary Transactions

Jack Roslovic: $2,000,000 (50%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2024
2025
2026

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
32	$83,500,000	$141,801,190	$0	$6,750,000	-$58,301,190

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Gaudreau, Johnny $9,750,000$9,750,000 LW NMC UFA - 6	Fantilli, Adam $950,000$950,000 ($3,200,000$3M) C RFA - 3	Laine, Patrik $8,700,000$8,700,000 C, RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 3
Chinakhov, Yegor $800,000$800,000 RW, LW RFA - 1	Voronkov, Dmitri $925,000$925,000 LW, C, RW RFA - 2	Marchenko, Kirill $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) RW RFA - 1
Texier, Alexandre $1,525,000$1,525,000 LW, C, RW RFA - 1	Sillinger, Cole $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) C RFA - 1	Nylander, Alexander $775,000$775,000 RW, LW RFA - 1
Jenner, Boone $3,750,000$3,750,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 3	Kuraly, Sean $2,500,000$2,500,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 2	Danforth, Justin $975,000$975,000 RW, C UFA - 1
Olivier, Mathieu $1,100,000$1,100,000 RW UFA - 2		Fix-Wolansky, Trey $775,000$775,000 RW RFA - 2
Thomas, Robert $8,125,000$8,125,000 C, RW UFA - 8
Barzal, Mathew $9,150,000$9,150,000 C, RW UFA - 8
Robertson, Jason $7,750,000$7,750,000 LW, RW RFA - 3
Keller, Clayton $7,150,000$7,150,000 LW, RW UFA - 5
Connor, Kyle $7,142,857$7,142,857 LW UFA - 3
Bratt, Jesper $7,875,000$7,875,000 RW, LW UFA - 8
Konecny, Travis $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Boldy, Matthew $7,000,000$7,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 7
Batherson, Drake $4,975,000$4,975,000 RW, LW UFA - 4
Necas, Martin $3,000,000$3,000,000 RW RFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Werenski, Zachary $9,583,333$9,583,333 LD NMC UFA - 5	Boqvist, Adam $2,600,000$2,600,000 RD RFA - 2	Merzlikins, Elvis $5,400,000$5,400,000 G M-NTC UFA - 4
Provorov, Ivan $4,725,000$4,725,000 LD UFA - 2	Severson, Damon $6,250,000$6,250,000 RD NTC UFA - 8	Tarasov, Daniil $1,050,000$1,050,000 G RFA - 2
Bean, Jake $2,333,333$2,333,333 LD/RD RFA - 1	Gudbranson, Erik $4,000,000$4,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 3

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
	Johnson, Kent $925,000$925,000 ($1,850,000$2M) LW, C RFA - 1

Top Comments

Mar. 11 at 7:50 p.m.

#1

Badgm91

Joined: Sep. 2018

Posts: 661

Likes: 178

I'd say about half these teams tell CBJ one of 2024 1st, Jiricek , Fantilli need to be involved to even consider talking (for Connor, Robertson, Barzal, Keller at least)

Mar. 11 at 7:59 p.m.

#2

Joined: Mar. 2018

Posts: 7,270

Likes: 3,594

I'm not sure if Columbus has any pieces that they'd be willing to move and I'd want in return for a Batherson trade. But it would have to be at least a very good prospect and a good roster player.

Mar. 11 at 8:00 p.m.

#3

we miss leo k

Joined: Feb. 2018

Posts: 6,014

Likes: 5,131

The big issue to me is that if you're looking for a Tkachuk-style trade, CBJ has to be sending back a Huberdeau & a Weegar and I don't know if that's on this roster currently. I can see a Laine or Gaudreau being the Huberdeau, but the closest to Weegar I can see is Provorov - and considering Provorov is already collecting $6.75M per year on his deal, I don't think you're going to be able to extend him to the type of contract Weegar agreed to.

I think you can immediately rule out Barzal & Bratt, though - I can't see two GMs making this type of trade intra-divisionally. I also think that Necas/Konecny/Batherson, while very good, are not quite on the level that Tkachuk was at the time of the deal.

Keller is the most interesting option to me - the Coyotes are losing more than $13M in dead contract IR this summer (Bryan Little/Jakub Voracek), and while there are always dead contracts to acquire, I think bringing in Gaudreau & Provorov for Keller would be an interesting move. I think the issue is that NTCs start rearing their ugly heads when you talk about sending someone to the Mullett.

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Mar. 11 at 8:07 p.m.

#4

Huge_Caniac_Abe_Lincoln

On the Rod Meal Plan

Joined: May 2023

Posts: 559

Likes: 326

The largest difference is that with the exception of Necas, all other players have term, and a couple are still RFAs afterword. Acknowledging that Necas is not as good as Tkachuck, the return would be Provorov (Weegar comp, worse player) and Laine (Huberdeau comp, worse player), 2026 1st, Blankenberg (or another prospect like Schwindt).

That being said, I doubt that package would interest the Canes. Ignoring contract status, the closest comparable to Tkachuk would probably be Robertson (whom I imagine is untouchable) but the ask would be 2025, 2026 1sts, Werenski, and Chinakov/Marchenko.

Mar. 11 at 8:08 p.m.

#5

Joined: Feb. 2024

Posts: 239

Likes: 84

I know he isn’t on your list but the blues would likely be willing to trade kyrou for the 25 first and one of Marchenko, voronkov, or chinakov. I doubt they would ever trade Thomas.

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