I know right! Then you would definitely have to give Peeke to the oilers.. anyway, I doubt anyone in Columbus regrets that, as I believe Jiricek is going to be better than Jones, however, only time will tell how good he truly will be.

Thanks for rubbing it in 😥

No way is Columbus taking that back, it was highway robbery! That said, it certainly set the Blackhawks up nicely to draft Bedard…so I can live with it as a hawks fan 😉

Are you upset enough to talk a package for 3OA to get him back?

Are you asking me if I’m upset at losing Jones? To clarify my own stance, I would not undo the trade.

The only package around that that would work for me is 3OA for Jones plus 1OA for taking his contract.

Chicago fan here. if you go back and change the past you affect the future. If Bowman didn't make that trade and stayed, at the time, on his one year rebuild program, he most likely wouldn't have burned down the roster by trading away Debrincat and Dach last summer, and instead would be rebuilding the team around them, Boqvist and Sillinger. Of course this ignores the fact that Bowman lost his job due to the Beach scandal. Maybe his successor Davidson would have kept the existing rebuild intact and wouldn't have made those drastic moves last summer. Long story short they wouldn't have finished 3rd from the bottom in the standings last season and wouldn't have won the 1st overall pick and the grand prize in Bedard.

Just attempting to inject a tiny bit of humor, wasn’t a serious question.

Same here. Also wasn’t a serious answer.

😂 fair enough. I misread the intent.

I don’t really want to endorse Dom’s analytics because I think they’re highly flawed, but according to him, even Boqvist is already better than Jones.

We got Bedard...we're good

Yeah. His model is extremely flawed. But, its still better than my model... I don't have an analytics model. haha

I never really liked Dom's models because it puts way more worth on Offensive metrics which would put Bovquist at a higher value obviously while Jones is still probably the better, if overpaid, player of the two.