Is it possible that JK tried to make other trades and the other teams said "no" or that they wanted more than what the Jackets were willing to trade?
When Vanek goes for a pick and a prospect, I highly doubt it.
Is it possible that JK tried to make other trades and the other teams said "no" or that they wanted more than what the Jackets were willing to trade?
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Sharks and Columbus were both considered good plan "B" options if deal with Lightning fell through. #Tradecentre
Matt Frattin and Nick Shultz will never be outworked! They sit in the press box the right way!
Won't repost my entire rant from the Gabby thread but here are JD/Jarmo's additions to the NHL roster so far:
Blake Comeau, Jack Skille, Matt Frattin, Corey Tropp, Illari Melart, Curtis McElhinney, Nick Shultz, Nathan Horton
Step back from the ledge...nothing has changed
Open up 7 mil in cap space for the off season
crazy to see that as even Horton has been disappointing..
his drafting is probably his strong suit, though.. and his picks have looked very good so far.
Wasn't that the point of my "rant"? Thanks for reinforcing what I was saying.
FYI, this part was kind of silly. He's an UFA; this changed nothing about our cap situation next season.
wasn't talking about anyone specifically, well maybe CBJBrassard and those stating how awful this deadline was..
Point about the cap situation is now we don't even have to worry about budgeting him in there.
we were an above .500 team without him in the lineup, and we'll be an above .500 team without him on the team.
Regardless of what we did or didn't do; we didn't have to "worry" about budgeting him. If the goal was to free up space for a depth D-Man; Sgt. Schultz wasn't the man we should have been targeting.
Regardless of your spin, this was not a good trade deadline. Not good at all. We did not help the team in any meaningful way.
btw, the Worst Rumor of the Day Award goes to the guy who said JJ might get traded.
btw, the Worst Rumor of the Day Award goes to the guy who said JJ might get traded.
Can people just stop saying that nonsense?Not talking about this year, I'm talking about going into the off-season's cap hit.
We obv had no interest in resigning Gabby, and we've been a better team without him so far, not my opinion, it's a fact that someone posted before. It's seems as if GMJK felt that way too, and treated Gabby as if we were out of the playoffs...unload for what you can so you don't get stuck with nothing.
I too am underwhelmed with this deadline, but do not believe we are a worse team after it....true, we're not better on paper, but if you hadn't noticed, we've been on a pretty good roll since Jan 1
Regardless of what we did or didn't do; we didn't have to "worry" about budgeting him. If the goal was to free up space for a depth D-Man; Sgt. Schultz wasn't the man we should have been targeting.
Regardless of your spin, this was not a good trade deadline. Not good at all. We did not help the team in any meaningful way.
The Tampa Bay Lightning have traded D Matt Taormina and F Dana Tyrell to the Columbus Blue Jackets for F Jonathan Marchessault and F Dalton Smith.
got this from a Facebook group, idk how reliable it is.
Stats suggest that they're both reasonably decent AHL scorers, but that's all. Which is about what one would expect.
So...what were you saying?
When will HFBoards Columbus respect the blue jackets?
Good gracious, reading the reaction here, you'd think this team sucks and needed to rebuild itself into a post-deadline contender by making sweeping changes.
This is a good team, folks. They've survived missing Gaborik for half the season and Bob for 4-5 weeks. They can certainly survive staying together for the stretch run.