Big moves in 2025

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Created by: CertifiedAverage

Team: 2025-26 Columbus Blue Jackets

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 31, 2024

Published: Apr. 12, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Fantasy stuff. But it seems to be fashionable making Tkachuk trade suggestions again, so why not?

Assumptions: Ottawa and Edmonton don't make significant strides forward. Tkachuk requests a trade out of Ottawa in the 2025 off-season and Draisaitl goes to UFA.

Is this the team to finally bump Columbus into the playoffs?

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Brindley, Gavin	2	$950,000
Dolzhenkov, Kirill	3	$800,000
Whitelaw, William	3	$800,000
Ivanov, Sergei	3	$950,000
Keskinen, Oiva	3	$800,000
Makarov, Nikolai	3	$950,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Blankenburg, Nick	2	$900,000
Chinakhov, Yegor	1	$2,305,000
Johnson, Kent	1	$2,400,000
Marchenko, Kirill	4	$6,405,000
Sillinger, Cole	1	$2,260,000
Texier, Alexandre	1	$1,500,000
Voronkov, Dmitri	2	$3,000,000
Greaves, Jet	2	$950,000
Tarasov, Daniil	1	$1,500,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Draisaitl, Leon		7	$13,500,000
Olivier, Mathieu		1	$1,250,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Lindstrom, Cayden		3	$950,000

Trades

CBJ

2024 3rd round pick (DAL)

NSH

Bean, Jake [RFA Rights]

CBJ

2025 2nd round pick (FLA)

FLA

Boqvist, Adam [RFA Rights]
2024 4th round pick (CBJ)

CBJ

2024 2nd round pick (CBJ)

PHI

2025 2nd round pick (CBJ)

Additional Details:

Deferred at the 2024 draft.

CBJ

2026 3rd round pick (TOR)

TOR

Danforth 50 % retained at the 2025 TDL.

CBJ

2025 2nd round pick (TBL)
2026 1st round pick (TBL)

TBL

Kuraly and Provrov, both 50 % retained, at the 2025 TDL.

CBJ

Tkachuk, Brady
2025 6th round pick (OTT)

OTT

Buyouts

Alexander Wennberg: $891,667
Elvis Merzlikins: $1,500,000

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
23	$92,000,000	$87,675,714	$0	$4,950,000	$4,324,286

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Gaudreau, Johnny $9,750,000$9,750,000 LW NMC UFA - 4	Draisaitl, Leon $13,500,000$13,500,000 C, LW UFA	Tkachuk, Brady $8,205,714$8,205,714 LW NMC UFA - 3
Johnson, Kent $2,400,000$2,400,000 LW, C RFA	Fantilli, Adam $950,000$950,000 ($3,200,000$3M) C RFA - 1	Laine, Patrik $8,700,000$8,700,000 C, RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 1
Jenner, Boone $3,750,000$3,750,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 1	Voronkov, Dmitri $3,000,000$3,000,000 LW, C, RW RFA	Chinakhov, Yegor $2,305,000$2,305,000 RW, LW RFA
Lindstrom, Cayden $950,000$950,000	Sillinger, Cole $2,260,000$2,260,000 C RFA	Brindley, Gavin $950,000$950,000 C RFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Werenski, Zachary $9,583,333$9,583,333 LD NMC UFA - 3	Jiricek, David $918,333$918,333 ($1,000,000$1M) RD RFA - 1	Greaves, Jet $950,000$950,000 G RFA
Mateychuk, Denton $886,667$886,667 ($750,000$750K) LD RFA - 2	Severson, Damon $6,250,000$6,250,000 RD NTC UFA - 6	Tarasov, Daniil $1,500,000$1,500,000 G RFA
Blankenburg, Nick $900,000$900,000 LD/RD UFA	Gudbranson, Erik $4,000,000$4,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 1
Svozil, Stanislav $825,000$825,000 LD RFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Texier, Alexandre $1,500,000$1,500,000 LW, C, RW RFA
Olivier, Mathieu $1,250,000$1,250,000 RW UFA

Apr. 12 at 3:59 p.m.

dopplsan

Nah.

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Just have Dolzhenkov and Voronkov on a line together every night.

Only Pat Maroon would probably take the ice against them. Win every game by default.

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Apr. 12 at 4:09 p.m.

CertifiedAverage

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Quoting: dopplsan

Just have Dolzhenkov and Voronkov on a line together every night.

Only Pat Maroon would probably take the ice against them. Win every game by default.

Well, Vincent has been talking a lot about Columbus lacking size...

If Dolzhenkov reaches his full potential, that's mouth-watering stuff for sure. I loved what they did at the 2022 draft.

Apr. 12 at 11:23 p.m.

Viqsi

mostly harmless

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It's a very nice daydream.

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Apr. 13 at 4:09 a.m.

CertifiedAverage

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Quoting: Viqsi

It's a very nice daydream.

"Hope is a waking dream."

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Big moves in 2025

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