Turning every team into a playoff team

Created by: Fylster

Team: 2024-25 Columbus Blue Jackets

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 24, 2024

Published: Apr. 24, 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

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

only semi-realistic. Step 1 is fire vincent and hire berube. Im going to continue to use nj as the team for goalie trades as a team that needs goaltending. I get that Elvis isn't the ideal starter nj might look for, it is just an example. Chose the isles to represent a team that needs scoring, laine and the blue jackets just hasn't worked out.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Johnson, Kent	2	$1,200,000
Nylander, Alexander	2	$2,000,000
Sillinger, Cole	2	$2,000,000
Marchenko, Kirill	4	$5,000,000
Chinakhov, Yegor	3	$4,000,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Talbot, Cam	1	$4,000,000
Gustafsson, Erik	1	$1,000,000
Marchessault, Jonathan	2	$7,500,000
Stephenson, Chandler	3	$5,000,000

Trades

CBJ

2024 3rd round pick (WPG)

NJD

Merzlikins, Elvis

CBJ

Wahlstrom, Oliver [RFA Rights]
2024 1st round pick (NYI)
2024 6th round pick (NYI)

NYI

Laine, Patrik
2024 5th round pick (CBJ)

Buyouts

Alexander Wennberg: $891,667

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
23	$83,500,000	$81,825,000	$0	$3,200,000	$1,675,000

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Gaudreau, Johnny $9,750,000$9,750,000 LW NMC UFA - 5	Fantilli, Adam $950,000$950,000 ($3,200,000$3M) C RFA - 2	Marchenko, Kirill $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW RFA
Chinakhov, Yegor $4,000,000$4,000,000 RW, LW RFA	Stephenson, Chandler $5,000,000$5,000,000 C, LW UFA	Marchessault, Jonathan $7,500,000$7,500,000 RW, LW UFA
Johnson, Kent $1,200,000$1,200,000 LW, C RFA	Sillinger, Cole $2,000,000$2,000,000 C RFA	Nylander, Alexander $2,000,000$2,000,000 RW, LW RFA
Voronkov, Dmitri $925,000$925,000 LW, C, RW RFA - 1	Jenner, Boone $3,750,000$3,750,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 2	Danforth, Justin $1,100,000$1,100,000 RW, C UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Werenski, Zachary $9,583,333$9,583,333 LD NMC UFA - 4	Severson, Damon $6,250,000$6,250,000 RD NTC UFA - 7	Talbot, Cam $4,000,000$4,000,000 G UFA
Provorov, Ivan $4,725,000$4,725,000 LD UFA - 1	Gudbranson, Erik $4,000,000$4,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Tarasov, Daniil $1,050,000$1,050,000 G RFA - 1
Gustafsson, Erik $1,000,000$1,000,000 LD UFA	Boqvist, Adam $2,600,000$2,600,000 RD RFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Brindley, Gavin $950,000$950,000 C RFA - 2
Kuraly, Sean $2,500,000$2,500,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 1
Olivier, Mathieu $1,100,000$1,100,000 RW UFA - 1

Top Comments

Apr. 24 at 6:32 p.m.

Viqsi

mostly harmless

Joined: Feb. 2016

Posts: 6,747

Likes: 3,230

Gustafsson does nothing for us; we need more defensively-oriented blueliners. Talbot is not an upgrade on what we already have in net. And Marchessault will likely never willingly play here, even though the front office he had such disdain for is now being replaced a second time.

I'd gladly take Stephenson, tho.

Apr. 24 at 6:38 p.m.

TyeZerker

Joined: Jul. 2023

Posts: 1,122

Likes: 164

No thanks on Elvis, with that cap hit NOPE your gonna have to retain

Apr. 24 at 6:41 p.m.

FoxYou727

Joined: Oct. 2020

Posts: 971

Likes: 548

I wouldn't mind taking a risk on Laine, him and Barzal could go crazy but neither team does this for very different reasons. Columbus won't sell low on him and if Laine does get traded it will definitely be his last shot to prove himself

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Apr. 24 at 6:42 p.m.

dopplsan

Nah.

Joined: Sep. 2020

Posts: 4,483

Likes: 4,366

If the goal here is just “can this team be at least a WC2?”

Sure.

But realistically, pass on the trades. I’d love JM or Chandler on those contracts, but they’ll do better.

Quoting: FoxYou727

Thank you so much for being one of the few posters who can actually look at this from another team’s perspective.

I mean that sincerely.

FoxYou727 and Icelander24 liked this.

Apr. 25 at 9:34 a.m.

slapshot723

NYI

Joined: Jun. 2016

Posts: 3,501

Likes: 1,107

Quoting: FoxYou727

I mostly agree with you on taking a shot with Laine. A Laine-Horvat-Barzal line could be dominant. But there's no way the Islanders should take him at his current cap hit. If Columbus bought him out or retained 50%, then I'm sure the Islanders would be the top team interested.

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