And on top of all that, is he really that good?
That makes sense to me. Retain half his salary take the appropriate pick and do the right thing (while adding a small bit of draft capital).
That presumes some PO team wants Quick, even for a 7th, which might be too large an assumption. If it can get done, absolutely CBJ should do the right thing.
I think that seems like a logical deal if we want Chychrun…..it’s just that I don’t.
Has it been confirmed he doesn't want to be here? Last confirmed thing i saw was he didn't want to be here, but changed his tune after the JG signing. Yes this team is worse that Arizona right now, but that is all down to injuries. Saying he doesn't want to be here now seems like nothing but speculation at this point. I am not saying trade for him because he would welcomed a trade here in July, but it has as much validity as saying he doesn't want to be here now, which is none, until someone can confirm it.
What should he have learned? We arent in a similar position to where Chicago was at the time of that trade
We need something to speculate about now that Jarmo got his 1st in a trade after many were losing their minds because there were none left to get
He should learn to not trade multiple picks and young players for a defenseman when you aren't relatively certain of how your team will do in the next year.
Chychrun has 2 years after this at a great cap hit. Columbus is also a team on the upswing who needs to start adding skill and vets with the kids. Chicago was a team trying to stay afloat led by a terrible GM clinging to past success. We've had so many 1st rounders recently, its time to start adding to the team. Cant bring in a bunch of kids all at once and expect big things, especially on the blue line.
There was a recent tweet from one of the National guys saying he was “not happy” that CBJ was still in discussions, I can’t find it right now though
wherein dom refers to gavrikov as 'big and mean' (because he's never watched him play) and docks the blue jackets for getting 'less' than they would've gotten from boston (even though the draft pick value is higher per dom's own damn chart!)
I'd say he absolutely is that good. But it's a Ryan Murray sort of good. Fantastawonderful when you have him, but that just makes his time lost to injury all the more painful.
this trade wouldn't include a $9.5m extension after the first year. chychrun's cap is $4.6m and he has two more years.
the alternative is basically to hope that orlov signs here (locking him up until he's 40) or to hope that they can pry miller away from nyr via offer sheet (which is successful maybe once per decade).
And his ostensible compliment about the Jackets at the deadline arising entirely from his constantly and consistently underrating and dismissing our guys and thus always being caught off guard when they return value and refusing to actually learn from it despite it happening again and again and again and again and again...
exactly -- even then, he wrote a whole-ass thing this week saying everyone should stay away from gavrikov. then the jackets get a 1st+ for him and it's "they could've done better" lol
agreed, but the options i'm seeing are either massively overpaying a guy like orlov (in both dollars and term) or doing a different big trade for a player who's not available yet. if it's a guy like miller, the acquisition cost would be similar, but the contract would be less favorable and the odds of pulling it off would be way worse.
