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Tkachuk-Style Trade To Upgrade Top Six

Created by: CaseyFlyman

Team: 2023-24 Columbus Blue Jackets

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 11, 2024

Published: Mar. 11, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

For reference:

To CGY: Huberdeau, Weegar, Schwindt, 2025 FLA 1st (lottery protected)
To FLA: Tkachuk, 2025 CGY 4th

The premise: Columbus has a lot of young forwards that fit in the top-6 on style of play, but none that are true impact players right now. A roster crunch might force some of them into the bottom-6 or out of town (not ideal), so the idea is to find a young (~25) established NHLer who could break out to be that star player.

It's entirely possible that person is in-house already (Laine), but between Gaudreau, Laine, Johnson, Chinakhov, Marchenko, and one of Fantilli/Jenner/Sillinger/Voronkov, we've got 6 players penciled into 4 top-6 wing spots long-term. None of them are getting moved for a package of futures/picks, but I could see basically any of them being moved for a true Tkachuk-like upgrade.

What are the targets? What would it take? And is it something Columbus even considers, let alone any of these teams?

(And yes, I apologize, I know "insert player here" isn't available. CBJ hears it enough with Boone, Voronkov, Jiricek, etc. That's why the Tkachuk trade is so rare, chances are vary slim, I don't foresee any of these happening.)

Trades

1.

CBJ

Thomas, Robert

STL

2025 1st round pick (CBJ)

Additional Details:

Assets Columbus could potentially send, pick and choose your package (in order of decreasing likelihood to be traded IMO):

Provorov
Boqvist
2025 1st
2026 1st
Laine
Texier
Johnson
Chinakhov
Marchenko
Voronkov
Jenner

Additionally, any non-roster prospect not named Jiricek or Mateychuk (i.e. Dumais)

2.

CBJ

Barzal, Mathew

NYI

See first trade for package options.

3.

CBJ

Robertson, Jason

DAL

See first trade for package options.

4.

CBJ

Bratt, Jesper

NJD

See first trade for package options.

5.

CBJ

Keller, Clayton

ARI

See first trade for package options.

6.

CBJ

Konecny, Travis

PHI

See first trade for package options.

7.

CBJ

Boldy, Matthew

MIN

See first trade for package options.

8.

CBJ

Batherson, Drake

OTT

See first trade for package options.

9.

CBJ

Necas, Martin

CAR

See first trade for package options.

10.

CBJ

Connor, Kyle

WPG

See first trade for package options.

Buyouts

Alexander Wennberg: $891,667

Retained Salary Transactions

Jack Roslovic: $2,000,000 (50%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2024
2025
2026

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
32	$83,500,000	$141,801,190	$0	$6,750,000	-$58,301,190

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Gaudreau, Johnny $9,750,000$9,750,000 LW NMC UFA - 6	Fantilli, Adam $950,000$950,000 ($3,200,000$3M) C RFA - 3	Laine, Patrik $8,700,000$8,700,000 C, RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 3
Chinakhov, Yegor $800,000$800,000 RW, LW RFA - 1	Voronkov, Dmitri $925,000$925,000 LW, C, RW RFA - 2	Marchenko, Kirill $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) RW RFA - 1
Texier, Alexandre $1,525,000$1,525,000 LW, C, RW RFA - 1	Sillinger, Cole $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) C RFA - 1	Nylander, Alexander $775,000$775,000 RW, LW RFA - 1
Jenner, Boone $3,750,000$3,750,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 3	Kuraly, Sean $2,500,000$2,500,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 2	Danforth, Justin $975,000$975,000 RW, C UFA - 1
Olivier, Mathieu $1,100,000$1,100,000 RW UFA - 2		Fix-Wolansky, Trey $775,000$775,000 RW RFA - 2
Thomas, Robert $8,125,000$8,125,000 C, RW UFA - 8
Barzal, Mathew $9,150,000$9,150,000 C, RW UFA - 8
Robertson, Jason $7,750,000$7,750,000 LW, RW RFA - 3
Keller, Clayton $7,150,000$7,150,000 LW, RW UFA - 5
Connor, Kyle $7,142,857$7,142,857 LW UFA - 3
Bratt, Jesper $7,875,000$7,875,000 RW, LW UFA - 8
Konecny, Travis $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Boldy, Matthew $7,000,000$7,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 7
Batherson, Drake $4,975,000$4,975,000 RW, LW UFA - 4
Necas, Martin $3,000,000$3,000,000 RW RFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Werenski, Zachary $9,583,333$9,583,333 LD NMC UFA - 5	Boqvist, Adam $2,600,000$2,600,000 RD RFA - 2	Merzlikins, Elvis $5,400,000$5,400,000 G M-NTC UFA - 4
Provorov, Ivan $4,725,000$4,725,000 LD UFA - 2	Severson, Damon $6,250,000$6,250,000 RD NTC UFA - 8	Tarasov, Daniil $1,050,000$1,050,000 G RFA - 2
Bean, Jake $2,333,333$2,333,333 LD/RD RFA - 1	Gudbranson, Erik $4,000,000$4,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 3

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
	Johnson, Kent $925,000$925,000 ($1,850,000$2M) LW, C RFA - 1

Mar. 13 at 2:05 p.m.

#26

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Quoting: Dan_the_Man

And WTF does that have to do with anything I posted? Answer absolutely nothing thanks for playing I haven't I got a clue you win.

Barzal is not "remotely possible" like you claimed

Mar. 14 at 3:52 a.m.

#27

CertifiedAverage

Joined: Feb. 2024

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Edited Mar. 14 at 4:11 a.m.

Another, slightly more desperate, option for CBJ down the road might be to offer sheet a very desirable young player (e.g. Wyatt Johnston) and then sell some of their young forwards to recoup some draft picks. But the price of that might just be too high and should obviously only be done for the right player and if it's a realistic possibility.

Mar. 14 at 10:24 a.m.

#28

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Quoting: CertifiedAverage

Another, slightly more desperate, option for CBJ down the road might be to offer sheet a very desirable young player (e.g. Wyatt Johnston) and then sell some of their young forwards to recoup some draft picks. But the price of that might just be too high and should obviously only be done for the right player and if it's a realistic possibility.

I'd be extremely worried about that since teams tend to overpay on contract and picks because of it, but it obviously depends on the player/situation. Also dependent on the player signing (i.e. Marner turning down $13M+ reportedly from Columbus, which would have been our next 4 first round picks -> Essentially Marner for Chinakhov, Johnson, Mateychuk, and Fantilli).

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Mar. 14 at 1:12 p.m.

#29

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Quoting: CaseyFlyman

I'd be extremely worried about that since teams tend to overpay on contract and picks because of it, but it obviously depends on the player/situation. Also dependent on the player signing (i.e. Marner turning down $13M+ reportedly from Columbus, which would have been our next 4 first round picks -> Essentially Marner for Chinakhov, Johnson, Mateychuk, and Fantilli).

Yeah, it's not a good option. It would basically be forcing the issue with exactly the right player at exactly the right time. Quite unlikely.

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Mar. 14 at 5:46 p.m.

#30

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Quoting: chealy2

Barzal is not "remotely possible" like you claimed

Sure ok tell yourself whatever you need to think your right 🙄. Thanks for letting me know Lou.🙄

Mar. 15 at 9:24 a.m.

#31

NYI

Joined: Jun. 2021

Posts: 374

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Quoting: Dan_the_Man

Sure ok tell yourself whatever you need to think your right 🙄. Thanks for letting me know Lou.🙄

This is actually Charles Wang, not Lou. 请不要冒用我的身份！

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