Line Combos: CBJ Roster Discussion/Line Combos/Injury Report

[CBJWerenski8]

 

[majormajor]

Hopefully we see this after the break

Marchenko - Monahan - Voronkov
Chinakhov - Fantilli - Johnson
Jenner - Del Bel Belluz - Sillinger
Olivier - Kuraly - JVR

Fabbro - Werenski
Severson - Provorov
Mateychuk - Christiansen

Merzlikins
Tarasov

Monahan and Marchy should be at least a couple weeks after the break.

 

[CBJWerenski8]

Monahan and Marchy should be at least a couple weeks after the break.

The broadcast suggested Marchenko may be back after the break. Game 1

 

[majormajor]

The broadcast suggested Marchenko may be back after the break. Game 1

As long as Marchy is genuinely healed enough for it, that would be amazing for our chances.

Monahan of course shouldn't be back so soon, and I hope they let Ronny take most of his draws when he comes back.

 

[DankoCBJ]

JvR has been a terrific addition to this young team! Great guy to that locker room and a great mentor for the young guys. Still good enough on the ice as well.

I would actually give him another 1y deal for next year. God knows we need the depth to cover for these injuries that keep on coming year after year.

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

JvR has been a terrific addition to this young team! Great guy to that locker room and a great mentor for the young guys. Still good enough on the ice as well.

I would actually give him another 1y deal for next year. God knows we need the depth to cover for these injuries that keep on coming year after year.

If he’s loved by the guys in the room here he’s probably been that kind of guy everywhere, at least in the “veteran” part of his career.

That said, if he’s genuinely a great thing for the kids, ask him if he’d take a two-year deal and a potentially declining role that would take him to retirement. He’s 35 with a May birthday. He has a kid in preschool in New Albany. This is the right age and stage in life for guys to want to live here.

Unless he has a plan for where to retire, or whatever, sit him down and lay it out. Tell him how he helps make this a playoff club the next two years, and his family can start to put down roots.

 

[Iron Balls McGinty]

Probably, but with Jenner (and maybe Chinakhov?) returning, they may just be sent down.

Possibly, but they aren't letting the get 2 weeks off like the rest of the NHL roster. Cleveland has 4 games between now and the end of the break. I think we are full so somebody has to go when Boone gets activated. LDBB seems the most likely candidate for that based on role if they put Boone back to center for the time being until Monahan is back. He had a strong start on his callup but the game looks a bit fast for him right now over the last week or so. Even if they call him back up a few AHL games could help him reset a bit.

In any even, both of these players belong in the AHL anyway and with the TDL coming up we'll see how that shifts.

 

[majormajor]

If he’s loved by the guys in the room here he’s probably been that kind of guy everywhere, at least in the “veteran” part of his career.

That said, if he’s genuinely a great thing for the kids, ask him if he’d take a two-year deal and a potentially declining role that would take him to retirement. He’s 35 with a May birthday. He has a kid in preschool in New Albany. This is the right age and stage in life for guys to want to live here.

Unless he has a plan for where to retire, or whatever, sit him down and lay it out. Tell him how he helps make this a playoff club the next two years, and his family can start to put down roots.

I don't imagine it would take much special pleading to get JVR to come back, it seems like a great spot for him after he went unsigned late into the summer. Taking contracts year by year might be amenable to both sides - perhaps with the added offer that he can work for the team when he can no longer crack the roster.

 

[CBJWerenski8]

Item No. 2: Reinforcements​

Blue Jackets coach Dean Evason said there are two whiteboards hanging side by side in the coaches’ office. The one on the right shows the current makeshift lineup, and the one on the left projects what the Blue Jackets might look like when play resumes following the 4 Nations Face-Off.

Jenner, who has missed the entire season to this point after a shoulder injury late in training camp, will return to the lineup on Feb. 22 vs. Chicago. It’s expected that Fabbro, out with a concussion since Feb. 2, will be ready to resume play, too.

“He’s doing much better,” Waddell said.

Fabbro will slot right back in next to Werenski. Where Jenner fits into the lineup remains to be seen, and Evason wasn’t saying.

During training camp, Jenner played left winger after spending several seasons at center. But with Monahan out, and the Blue Jackets struggling on faceoffs, Jenner could return to the middle, at least for the time being.

“We’ve talked (as coaches) about (Jenner’s) play, his game, and just him as a human being, and those guys (the coaches) are very close with him,” Evason said. “(Assistant coach Jared Boll), in particular, played with him plus coached him.

“So I’ve been given some firsthand accounts of who he is as a person and who he is as a player. So, am I excited about calling his name and having him jump over the boards? 100 percent.”

Beyond Jenner and Fabbro, the reinforcements get murky.

Marchenko did not require his broken jaw to be wired shut, which means he could return sooner than the typical 6 to 8 weeks required for a jaw to heal. He was in Nationwide Arena on Saturday, working with the training staff on a protective mask that could allow him to play sooner than expected.

The Blue Jackets expect Monahan and defenseman Erik Gudbranson to return by the middle or end of March, but Monahan may return in a limited capacity. He had surgery late last month to repair sprained ligaments in his right wrist, so it’s unclear if he’ll be able to step right back into his role as the Blue Jackets’ top faceoff man.

The biggest wild card of all is Yegor Chinakhov, who hasn’t played since Nov. 27 (35 games) due to a lower-back injury that he can’t seem to shake.

Chinakhov was in New York last week to see another specialist and a surgeon, and was told again that there’s nothing structurally wrong with his back and nothing that could be fixed with a surgical procedure, Waddell said.

“It’s all on him right now, when he feels like he can go,” Waddell said. “He’s seen all the doctors he can see. Everything is good in that way, he just keeps feeling some tightness (when he skates).

“You know how these things work. Doctors can say what they say and say what they see, but the individual has to feel as if he’s ready to go.”

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

I don't imagine it would take much special pleading to get JVR to come back, it seems like a great spot for him after he went unsigned late into the summer. Taking contracts year by year might be amenable to both sides - perhaps with the added offer that he can work for the team when he can no longer crack the roster.

Yeah year to year is fine too I was just trying to simplify the process both parties’ benefit.