Quoting: Ajp_18
Doubtful that Texier goes to the 4th line unless he majorly struggles this season, though that Texier, Karuly, Robinson line was one of the best Columbus had last season.
As for the d core, you’re also missing Peeke, I get why you keep pushing him down because he doesn’t have the great numbers, but omg stop with the Bean. Bean sucks and isn’t an NHL d, he’d be better off as a LW. Also Boqvist isn’t a top pair RHD, he's too small and gets hurt way too much.
My best guess would be,
Werenski-Peeke
Gavrikov-Juricik
Blankenburg/Boqvist-Gudbranson
As the season progresses it’ll change into
Werenski-Juricik
Gavrikov-Peeke
Blankenburg-Gudbranson
Boqvist out injured, he plays just about 60% of games a season.
Just because Bean is the 3rd best LHD we have doesn’t mean he’s a top 6 defenseman, players can play off hand, Weeger played the left side with Ekblad in Florida.
i guess i was just going with what positions the players are listed as, didnt know bean was that bad
so then peeke is probably an NHL regular for a bit until two of ceulemans, jiricek (not juricik, this mistake is killing me lol) or mateychuk crack the NHL
i think that lineup looks good for next season, but honestly, if im an outsider (which i am), i would be very scared of the future D-core that the blue jackets could have
Werenski - Jiricek
Mateychuk - Ceulemans
Gavrikov - Boqvist
(Peeke, Blankenburg, Svozil, Knazko)
Quoting: squashmaple
This is a pretty fair read on the situation from an outsider, nice work. This is a grow and figure out what we've got season coming up. The starting lineup on opening night 2022 is going to look wildly different from the starting lineup in 2023, that's for sure. As long as I don't have to see Brendan Gaunce or Gavin Bayreuther at any point, I will be happy.
I imagine this coming season finishes with Sillinger as 1C between Laine and Gaudreau, but it'll probably be Jenner there to start. The D will shake out somehow, but not having a true shutdown 1RD to pair with Werenski hurts the rest of the lineup. Gavrikov/Boqvist works if Boqvist can stay healthy (big if), and Peeke is a solid 3RD and a serviceable 1RD whose wart is that he makes Werenski worse at being Werenski. Blanks should probably start in Cleveland along with Johnson, but I imagine we'll see both of them in Columbus pretty quickly. And hey, maybe Gudbranson works perfectly as a Werenski partner, even if he's not what you'd call a normal 1RD. What we do know for sure is that neither Bean nor Boqvist works in that role. It's basically Jiricek's spot by 2024 if it goes to plan.
i think best case scenario you're getting sillinger as the 1C by season's end. i think realistically you hope that he becomes at least a 2C by then, but yeah its probably jenner's spot to start the season (and maybe roslovic gets it at some point if he gets 60 pts). the D will be a big question mark like you said, it'll be interesting to see what happens. i think you hope gudbranson is servicable to play with werenski at least
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