Still can't believe they traded Bjorkstrand for a bag of pucks to keep Jake freakin Bean ffs... 🙄

that’s not at all what happened

Flat cap ****ed everyone. They traded the guy they could actually get something for instead of paying to move someone else.

Yeah it was, buyout Bean or dump him and they had the cap space to keep Bjorkstrand.

Would've been better to buyout or dump Bean then lose Bjorn for a measly 3rd round pick, hell burying Bean might've been enough space to keep Bjorkstrand.

I’m not sure what an RFA third pairing LHD and a well-paid second line RW have to do with each other, but ok. Like yeah, Jarmo made questionable decisions, but it’s stupid to consider this to be the binary choice.

What other choices did he have, that was an obvious one to me, he made a poor, panicked decision when he could've waited it out for a bit to do something.

Oh well its done now but there's zero arguing that Cbus would be better off with Bjorkstrand, they clearly would be.

The same offseason that better players than Bjorkstrand were literally traded for nothing or had high picks attached to them, because no one had any cap? Pacioretty and Burns, for example. When Gaudreau fell in their lap, they had to make a decision. The very few teams that had cap space could and did ask for the moon. You normally have good takes. I’m not sure why you think a 2.3 million dollar defenseman former first round pick acquired for a second the previous summer would even be a consideration to move at all, let alone that he was the obvious choice in summer 2022 to move in order to keep Bjorkstrand. And no, Gudbranson wasn’t the reason, either. He was already signed and announced by the time there was even a hint Gaudreau might be interested. It was Gaudreau or Bjorkstrand, and the team would be in the same position in the standings regardless of which wing was currently a Blue Jacket.

We would, but him still being here (ignoring the cap) would have pushed one of either Laine, Gaudreau, Marchenko, Chinakhov, or himself to the third line, may have blocked Voronkov from coming over, and may have kept Sillinger or Johnson in the AHL longer. The easy transaction to point to is Gudbranson signing the 4x$4M, which pushed him off the roster 9 days later. Laine also signed his extension the same day Bjorkstrand was traded.

You can't single out one piece, and yes it would be nice to have Bjorkstrand...but at the same time, he's a middle-6 winger, and we've got plenty of those still, most of whom are younger and cheaper, and arguably have more upside. We'd be better right now, but I don't know that Bjorkstrand would even have a future here anyway.

Do you know how much a Bean buyout would’ve saved them? $1.56M.

“Dump him?” NHL trades aren’t made in a vacuum. No other GM is making trades for charity.

Well, except for BOS, apparently.

The amount of times I seen people rewrite history on this was insane. The real decision came down to Bjorkstrand Vs Laine. They chose Laine. People always complained "why didn't they give up Nyquist" when at the time every 5 mil in cap was a 1st round pick (which would eventually become Fantilli). The reason we got something from Bjorkstrand was because he had value and Seattle was the only one willing to give us assets (probably them paying us back for the gentleman's agreement over their expansion draft). There were rumors it was going to COST a 3rd and 4th to unload Bjorkstrand because there was no cap.

Also to the people who complained about signing Gudbranson doesn't remember the 2021 Wild game where we got decimated by dirty play and the faces of horror we had after that game. Plus lets be honest here you really think Jarmo was not going to sign a Dman that summer? It still would had cost 2-3 mil for an experience Dman even if he was a 3rd liner that summer.