Quoting: CouldBeKoi
With Elvis the reason he wasn't traded is because he's just been bad, I love him but he's been bad. At his cap hit, term and play no team is willing to give assets to get that . With Chinakov they definitely did hold with him for sure and that's worked out for them. Also for Jarmo & management I 100% agree have been a hardasses on young players but it seems like ****es. Fantilli was playing as one of their better forwards and they put him to 4th line left wing for a bit, and when you're a rebuilding team there is no reason to not have Jiricek up, the season is lost it is time to get him used to NHL play. Also I think the Jiricek one is a little different than the other situations (Elvis/Chinakov) as they just requested out but Jiricek actually publicly criticized management. I could be wrong about everything, you definitely know more about the Jackets than me, but to me this situation just feels different. I feel like Jiricek can get you a lot more than Elvis or Chinakov would and to me it just seems like Jarmo isn't prioritizing Jiricek long term.
I agree with you on most of this, and a lot of it does come down to mismanagement of younger players, but:
Quoting: CouldBeKoi
With Elvis the reason he wasn't traded is because he's just been bad, I love him but he's been bad. At his cap hit, term and play no team is willing to give assets to get that.
He hasn't been bad this year, though, by any measure. He's been average...like astonishingly on-average (0.3 GSAx, exactly 0.000 SV% above expected, and a .903 SV% overall where league average is .904). He's not a $5.4M goalie, so yes no one is taking him, but he's a perfectly fine backup at the very least.
Quoting: CouldBeKoi
Also I think the Jiricek one is a little different than the other situations (Elvis/Chinakov) as they just requested out but Jiricek actually publicly criticized management...this situation just feels different. I feel like Jiricek can get you a lot more than Elvis or Chinakov would and to me it just seems like Jarmo isn't prioritizing Jiricek long term.
It's different, but also not even as dire as Elvis or Chinakhov. The problem is management promised him an NHL position explicitly at the start of the year, then scratched him for like a month+ straight, then sent him back to the AHL. When he criticized them, their response was "where did this come from?" like they had no idea, and said he needs to play, but in the AHL. It's just all in line with how they mismanage young guys and jerk them around, and screw with long-term development. They
have to go, and Jiricek is 100% right.
But that doesn't mean that this management crew is going to trade him (because they historically don't), and it certainly doesn't mean the next management crew has to trade him (since his beef is with this crew, and his complaints are just ice time/NHL spots).