Claimed off Waivers: [CBJ] Blue Jackets claim D Dante Fabbro off waivers from the Predators

[Fraser28]

Smart move by Columbus. I think he’ll work out there long term.

 

[Schemp]

A rhetorical question: How many teams that passed on Fabbro couldn't make a claim because they were at the limit and didn't want or could send down a waiver-exempt player?

 

[Jacob]

Nevermind.

 

[luiginb]

Idk why anyone is surprised Sharks passed on him, he'd have hurt the tank

 

[MNRube]

Anaheim seems like they should’ve considered it. They have a lot of young LHD and only Gudas for veteran RHD

 

[Viqsi]

A rhetorical question: How many teams that passed on Fabbro couldn't make a claim because they were at the limit and didn't want or could send down a waiver-exempt player?

On casual inspection, most of them.

 

[Treb]

Surprised the Aves passed on him. They need real nhl players.

CBJ had 6th dib, Colorado had the 11th.

I'm surprised the Habs passed on him.

 

[featherhawk]

was hoping the hawks would land him. needs a change of scenery IMO.

 

[FunkySeeFunkyDo]

Tbh it makes sense why the 5 teams that had claim priority over cbj didn't do so. At the deadline cbj could very well have another trade chip.

I’m confused. I thought it was reverse order from the prior season. In that case, only SJ, CHI, and ANA had priority over CBJ.

edit ok, getting caught up, as this was asked and answered. CBJ would have been fourth had Fabbro been released before Nov 1. In my defense,

Google used to be good, but sucks now.

 

[uncleben]

I’m confused. I thought it was reverse order from the prior season. In that case, only SJ, CHI, and ANA had priority over CBJ.

That's how it is to start the season, but then it switches on November 1 to the current season's standings

 

[brock hughes007]

Smart move by Columbus. I think he’ll work out there long term.

Wonder how Jiricek is feeling now.

 

[Linkens Mastery]

Sorry, that's the number of total successful claims in the season; Fabbro is the 11th player to claimed this season
Maybe I need a better way to phrase it...

I mean, most of those was just Lavoie being ping ponged back and forth between Edm and VGK.

 

[SteelCityCannon]

Wonder how Jiricek is feeling now

This has absolutely nothing to do with him. Literally nothing.

 

[Go Wings]

Smart claim by Columbus. I was hoping he would make it Detroit. I would much rather him over Petry and Holl.

Any word if any other teams made claims on him?

 

[ijuka]

I’m confused. I thought it was reverse order from the prior season. In that case, only SJ, CHI, and ANA had priority over CBJ.

edit ok, getting caught up, as this was asked and answered. CBJ would have been fourth had Fabbro been released before Nov 1. In my defense,
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Google used to be good, but sucks now.

? google didn't even use to have AI here, how can you compare this AI tosomething that didn't even exist and say it sucks? Just read the actual results instead of AI if you don't like it.

 

[a mangy Meowth]

@Filthy Dangles

 

[Shark Finn]

So the rebuild begins in Nashville.

 

[biturbo19]

How is 26 "like nearly 30"? If that's way you round up I'm ancient.

I mean, in the sense that some people are talking about Fabbro like he's still "young". When the reality is, he's very much crossed that "he is what he is" threshold.

Obviously you hope that he can be a little bit more like what he's looked at his best (as an okayish Top-4 complementary piece), but there's no "upside" or "growth" or anything to realistically expect there. Mostly just more of the same and decline with age.


Which obviously isn't a big liability as an impending FA. Not a big deal. But he's weirdly being treated by some people as some sort of "up and coming" youngster with untapped "upside". That seems unlikely. Even if a rebound to what he was under previous coaching might see him become an effective enough "Top-4 filler" defenceman.

 

[vipera1960]

I mean, in the sense that some people are talking about Fabbro like he's still "young". When the reality is, he's very much crossed that "he is what he is" threshold.

Obviously you hope that he can be a little bit more like what he's looked at his best (as an okayish Top-4 complementary piece), but there's no "upside" or "growth" or anything to realistically expect there. Mostly just more of the same and decline with age.


Which obviously isn't a big liability as an impending FA. Not a big deal. But he's weirdly being treated by some people as some sort of "up and coming" youngster with untapped "upside". That seems unlikely. Even if a rebound to what he was under previous coaching might see him become an effective enough "Top-4 filler" defenceman.

Defensemen typically peak around age 28. I wouldn’t expect some kind of huge jump, but #4/5 play for the next 4-5 years seems pretty reasonable.

 

[FunkySeeFunkyDo]

? google didn't even use to have AI here, how can you compare this AI tosomething that didn't even exist and say it sucks? Just read the actual results instead of AI if you don't like it.

I didn’t like the AI because it was wrong, but I didn’t know that at that time. The results were things like “How a Team Sends a Player to the Minors” and more broad waiver wire information. Interesting to me is that when I regoogled just now the AI gave me an accurate answer:

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

I mean, in the sense that some people are talking about Fabbro like he's still "young". When the reality is, he's very much crossed that "he is what he is" threshold.

Obviously you hope that he can be a little bit more like what he's looked at his best (as an okayish Top-4 complementary piece), but there's no "upside" or "growth" or anything to realistically expect there. Mostly just more of the same and decline with age.


Which obviously isn't a big liability as an impending FA. Not a big deal. But he's weirdly being treated by some people as some sort of "up and coming" youngster with untapped "upside". That seems unlikely. Even if a rebound to what he was under previous coaching might see him become an effective enough "Top-4 filler" defenceman.

I think the "upside" people are talking about is that he's not actually a healthy scratch/#7D caliber of player like Nashville has been treating him, but instead has the "upside" to return to being that okay-ish #4 regular player that he was/should be utilized as. And there's reason to hope/expect that will indeed be the case, because he's "young enough" that his descent in Nashville wasn't due to age/decline, it was just due to the Preds' bizarre coaching decisions.

I mean, Fabbro is not going to be any sudden revelation that turns fortunes around for any team, but at least hopefully once he shakes off a little rust (and hopefully Columbus gives him enough leeway to do that), he should get back in the groove of being a quiet, mostly-competent vanilla kind of mid-pairing guy. I don't see anybody expecting anything more than that. But even that is way better than what Nashville has allowed him the last few seasons.

 

[Rafafouille]

Sad GMing by NSH..
Trying to catch up to Oilers GM in losing assets for nothing.

Nearly half the league passed on him for free. He was worth exactly that, nothing.

 

[Armourboy]

Nearly half the league passed on him for free. He was worth exactly that, nothing.

It was like 10 teams, and most of them didn't have the salary cap to claim him anyways.

 

[Schemp]

It was like 10 teams, and most of them didn't have the salary cap to claim him anyways.

...or caught flat footed by not having the chance to put in a claim because they were at the 23 player limit and couldn't/wouldn't send someone down immediately to get to 22!

 

[FunkySeeFunkyDo]

Nearly half the league passed on him for free. He was worth exactly that, nothing.

It was like 10 teams, and most of them didn't have the salary cap to claim him anyways.

It was precisely 5 teams that passed on him. CBJ was sixth in line.

oops—I shoulda been sorting by points % not points. About 10 sounds about right.