Rumor: David Jiricek available

[Luigi Lemieux]

General Q - Does Waddell have any history of drafting/developing defenseman? I cant think of one defenseman from his tenure in Carolina that the drafted and developed (Pesce and Slavin drafted and debuted before Waddell was GM).

If that's the case, can we trust his ability to evaluate D talent?

But he did manage Carolina for years. That's a very mobile team and if that's his vision for the jackets then maybe Jiricek doesn't fit anyway.

 

[tiburon12]

But he did manage Carolina for years. That's a very mobile team and if that's his vision for the jackets then maybe Jiricek doesn't fit anyway.

yea he's great and IDing D and bringing them in. Just speculating if his regime is the best at knowing what he has in a developing D.

Interesting to think about, though probably means little lol

 

[Scoresberg]

If we're talking about packages instead of one-for-one deals, I do believe the Preds could be a strong candidate.

Evangelista/Kemell
2024 1st round pick (the better of the 1sts VGK/TBL, top-10 protected, if top-10 pick then CBJ gets the worse of the two)
2024 2nd round pick (TBL's pick)

I do wonder if CBJ would be interested in Magnus Chrona as well. Has put up some good numbers in the AHL and in terms of goalie prospects, I'm not seeing much with CBJ. If they're in need of veteran players, we could interest you in a Nyquist or a Sissons.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Pettersson is the last type of dman the Canucks need. They struggle at breaking the puck out of their own end, why would they add a dman who struggles at just that?

Pettersson doesn't struggle with that. The Pens system struggles at that. But the player doesn't.

Marcus skates well, has a strong outlet pass, is good for 30-35pts and he's a reliable defenseman in his own end. The issue is the Penguins almost non existent defensive structure and system has everything looking terrible.

That is not an indictment to Pettersson and I know Allvin and JR know this.

Vancouver would just take Jiricek here.

Yeah that's a stupid trade entirely. Pens can't get Jiricek unless they overpay to get more to land him. And then Sullivan will use this player like garbage anyway.

The simple trade is Vancouver getting Marcus Pettersson and at best, a third team maybe taking salary retention or the canucks add a little bit to dump salary back (like Forbort, Desharnais, one of them).

 

[AtlantaWhaler]

General Q - Does Waddell have any history of drafting/developing defenseman? I cant think of one defenseman from his tenure in Carolina that the drafted and developed (Pesce and Slavin drafted and debuted before Waddell was GM).

If that's the case, can we trust his ability to evaluate D talent?

Tobias Enstrom (Thrashers) I think may be his best drafted defenseman

 

[surixon]

Or if he's really smart he finds a way to keep him. Whether that's pumping his tires to keep him going or being more of a hardass and reminding them that the team has the control and he'll have to improve his play to either make the big team or to boost his value enough so a trade comes through that benefits the CBJ.

The timing of all this is very poor, later in the season or probably even better yet the offseason would be the time for a deal to happen

Also a possibility. I haven't been following this situation close enough to know if his relationship with the team is broken beyond repair.

It's in the players best interest to work his ass off in the AHL to prove to teams interested that he can step in and is worth the cost, or prove to management to open a spot for him on the roster.