Chris Johnston on Insider Trading:
“Don Waddell said he’d like to bring in one more forward. The sense is the Blue Jackets are willing to be creative in how they do that. I don’t necessarily think it will come in the form of another UFA. I think they’ll look at PTOs, waiver wire, and they’re also pretty active on the trade market. Trying to see if there’s some situations around the league where younger players that could become available as they work through their own roster issues to get complaint by opening night. But the sense is the Blue Jackets will be patient here and get this forward by trade versus the traditional route of signing one.”
by AnonCommentary
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Oliver Bjorkstrand come on home!
(Jk I know Seattle would probably want way more than would make sense for us to offer. A girl can dream tho lol.)
Kinda thought this was gonna be the case, all kidding around aside. Very interested to see who we’ll pick up.
This is probably going to be through waivers.
There’s a handful of guys who clear waivers at the end of training camp every year where fans are scratching their heads. And it’s always because all 32 teams are usually in the same boat, with a roster that was slightly inflated in the off season in order to be flexible in case of injuries or guys just not showing the progress that management hoped for.
Waddell is in an extremely unique situation where he is short of a full compliment of forwards before training camp even starts. There will be potential gems on waivers this year. Or Waddell will find a GM who has too many forwards and will be looking to give up an asset or two alongside a bad contract or a 4th liner in order to protect one of the guys he has to send through waivers.
Isn’t there a guy in the last year of his deal the team doesn’t want? You can get an extra 1st for taking that.
Dirty franks is about to have a big business boom /s
How about Anderson from Montreal? Has anyone thought of this? Has anyone beat this one to death?
Also
Jesus Christ
>Fantilli, Jiricek, Werenski, Jenner
> Marner, Jarnkrok, Hildeby, Danford, 1st 2025 under the conditions the leafs make the ECF it will remain a 1st, in the case they fail to make the ECF the leafs will only pay a 3rd round pick and a 2nd in the next draft. Lastly a 2025 and 2026 7th round pick that in the event the blue Jackets fail to re-up Mitch Marner the picks upgrade to 1st round picks unprotected.
> They wanted him one upon a time maybe they take a massive risk. 🤷♂️
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