Team: 2020-21 Columbus Blue Jackets

Initial Creation Date: Oct. 20, 2020

Published: Oct. 20, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Forward lines-
Line 1- Grigorenko, PLD and Bjorkstrand - easy top line, let’s see how Grigorenko plays up with Columbus 2 best forwards.
Line 2- Nyquist, Domi and Atkinson- solid 2 way second line could be a good offensive line if all 3 work well together.
Line 3- Texier, Koivu, Bremstrom - let the vet mentor the young kids, koivu is solid defensively and let Texier and Bremstrom produce the offense on that line.
Line 4- really this line is any mix of Stenlund, Robinson, Jenner, Nash and Folingo. This is your rough grinder line that’s heavy on the forcheck.

Defensive pairs-
Pair 1- Werenski and Jones- typical don’t see that changing unless someone is hurt
Pair 2- Gavrikov and Savard - shutdown defensive pair, both good a blocking shots, hopefully some offensive numbers will come back for both of these 2.
Pair 3- Carlsson, Kukan, Peeke - the 3 young guys, rotate their playing time, Kukan can play both sides so that shouldn’t be an issue.

Goalies- Merzlinkins and Korpisalo - Columbus doesn’t have to move either of them unless they want to, but they seem to be a good goalie pair. Let’s see how year 2 goes after both had good stretches of play in year 1.