Best-case realistic TDL and off-season without Celebrini

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Created by: CertifiedAverage

Team: 2024-25 Columbus Blue Jackets

Initial Creation Date: Feb. 29, 2024

Published: Feb. 29, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Basically a best case scenario for me without the CBJ winning the draft lottery. I assume they draft Berkly Catton, who spends another year in the juniors.

Bean and Texier could be moved. Provorov is just a placeholder for Mateychuk and if CBJ don't make the playoffs, he can be sold at the 2025 TDL for a 1st.

RFA salary based on this:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R0mzG_2auhSGxLZ_LoiE9EwK8enxbNbw0BGqDVmKlu0/edit?usp=drivesdk

I think this would be a significantly improved Blue Jackets team. On the other hand, I thought so before this year too. But with the added players as well as Catton, Brindley, Malatesta, Dumais, Mateychuk, Svozil and Ivanov all in the pipeline, I would be very optimistic.

Let me know what you think!

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
Brindley, Gavin		3	$850,000
Ivanov, Sergei		3	$800,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Chinakhov, Yegor	2	$2,305,000
Greaves, Jet	3	$800,000
Blankenburg, Nick	3	$900,000
Johnson, Kent	4	$3,500,000
Marchenko, Kirill	6	$6,405,000
Sillinger, Cole	2	$2,260,000
Texier, Alexandre	2	$1,500,000
Bean, Jake	3	$2,500,000
Bjork, Marcus	2	$800,000

Trades

CBJ

2024 5th round pick (CGY)

TOR

Peeke, Andrew

Additional Details:

TDL. Can be any team.

CBJ

2024 2nd round pick (STL)

STL

TDL. Jack Roslovic 2M (50 %) retained. Could be any team.

CBJ

Lauzon, Jérémy

NSH

Boqvist, Adam
2024 3rd round pick (LAK)

Additional Details:

I like Boqvist, but with Jiricek coming up there's no room for him. CBJ trade him for a defensive LD of similar age and cap hit.

CBJ

2024 2nd round pick (CBJ)

PHI

2025 2nd round pick (CBJ)

Additional Details:

Deferred to 2025.

CBJ

Future considerations.

SJS

Tarasov, Daniil

Additional Details:

Cap dump. Any team, really.

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

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$83,500,000	$81,813,333	$0	$4,200,000	$1,686,667

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	Laine, Patrik $8,700,000$8,700,000 C, RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 2
Johnson, Kent $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, C RFA	Jenner, Boone $3,750,000$3,750,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 2	Marchenko, Kirill $6,405,000$6,405,000 RW RFA
Voronkov, Dmitri $925,000$925,000 LW, C, RW RFA - 1	Sillinger, Cole $2,260,000$2,260,000 C RFA	Chinakhov, Yegor $2,305,000$2,305,000 RW, LW RFA
Texier, Alexandre $1,500,000$1,500,000 LW, C, RW RFA	Kuraly, Sean $2,500,000$2,500,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 1	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	Jiricek, David $918,333$918,333 ($1,000,000$1M) RD RFA - 2	Merzlikins, Elvis $5,400,000$5,400,000 G M-NTC UFA - 3
Lauzon, Jérémy $2,000,000$2,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	Severson, Damon $6,250,000$6,250,000 RD NTC UFA - 7	Greaves, Jet $800,000$800,000 G RFA
Provorov, Ivan $4,725,000$4,725,000 LD UFA - 1	Gudbranson, Erik $4,000,000$4,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2
Bean, Jake $2,500,000$2,500,000 LD/RD RFA

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Olivier, Mathieu $1,100,000$1,100,000 RW UFA - 1

Feb. 29 at 8:23 a.m.

CaseyFlyman

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I like this. RFA values seem fair, trade valuations are reasonable, and I think the right pieces are going out. Maybe a team takes a chance on Tarasov for a late-round pick, but he certainly doesn't look like he has an NHL future with us. If Laine/Gaudreau bounce back and the kids keep developing, that's a solid core.

My personal hope is for another RD stud prospect with the 1st-rounder if we don't win the lottery, one of Levshunov or Parekh. This team is loaded with top-6 potential forwards, but none of the RD in the system aside from Jiricek look to be top-4 guys (including Gudbranson and potentially Severson). Any kind of clear team direction would be nice though, there's just too many pieces that don't fit together.

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Feb. 29 at 8:52 a.m.

squashmaple

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Quoting: CaseyFlyman

Levshunov would be ideal, but not Parekh. I don't think another Adam Boqvist/Denton Mateychuk is very interesting. Or the forwards, honestly. It's weird to go into the draft and not have a strong preference like I have in the past few years (really wanted Jiricek and then Carlsson, for example).

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Feb. 29 at 11:16 a.m.

CertifiedAverage

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Quoting: CaseyFlyman

For me, I would be perfectly alright with a potential future top 2 C or top 4 D. I like Catton myself, since he is a playmaking two-way C, who should pair well with Fantilli. Any of the top three D (Dickinson, Levshunov, Silayev) or Buium would probably be fine by me.

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