Player Discussion: David Jiricek

[Cheddarcheese]

Well let's assume you get paid 80k a year for your job, if you had two choices, either get a 1m raise now or hone your craft for one more year getting paid 80k and then get a 1m raise, which option would you choose?

Seriously though, that's a big difference in pay and while 80k a year is good money, it doesn't really set you up for the future the way 1m does in case your career ends abruptly. If I were an AHL player I wouldn't want to spend a day longer in that league than I have to - that is if the other option was NHL.

There ways to make more, you see other teams call up players for a day so they receive NHL paycheck

 

[CBJWerenski8]

The Blue Jackets coaching staff would never say this, but it’s clear they don’t have a lot of trust in Jiricek. His ice time in his three previous games went the wrong direction, from 17:05 vs. the Capitals to 9:15 vs. the Sharks and 8:50 vs. the Kings.

In five games, he has zero goals, one assist and a minus-2 rating, while averaging 11:47 per game.

“We have to think about what’s best for (Jiricek) right now,” Waddell said. “Obviously playing 8-10 minutes isn’t ideal. He’s 20 years old, and he still makes a 20-year-old’s mistakes.

“We’ll sit down (later this week) and talk about it, but we’re not going to make any decisions until we get home.”

Jiricek bristled last season when the Blue Jackets sent him to AHL Cleveland, so one can only wonder how he’d handle a demotion one year later.

In fairness, the Jackets have given Jiricek every chance to claim a top-four job on the right side from the beginning of training camp, but he hasn’t grabbed it. It’s possible — not likely, but possible — that Jiricek would prefer playing heavy minutes in the AHL vs. barely playing in the NHL.

Waddell, a veteran GM, isn’t likely to be swayed by how a player or his agent would handle an assignment to the AHL.

Still, it would be preferable to keep the peace with one of the franchise’s top prospects, a player who is projected as a top-pairing defender with a big power-play role. But Jiricek has not bloomed into that player yet in the NHL, only the AHL.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5914578/2024/11/11/blue-jackets-dante-fabbro-nhl/

 

[Seedtype]

Ugh, I just want the kid to be sent down and not have to hear about him until next year at this point. (I don't care how much of this drama is actually real or not, heh)

 

[LJ7]

Cleveland or trade. The franchise nor Jiricek (whether he and his agent acknowledge it or not) do not have time to waste by playing him in a league that he can't hang in. I really like his playstyle and have badly wanted him to work out since we picked him, so I don't want to see him just fail every night in a league he isn't ready for.

 

[rt]

Would y'all be interested in a Lawson Crouse for Jiricek type of deal, or nah?

 

[S1N4TR4]

Would y'all be interested in a Lawson Crouse for Jiricek type of deal, or nah?

I would take crouse for jiricek. but that’s just me.

 

[tunnelvision]

Would y'all be interested in a Lawson Crouse for Jiricek type of deal, or nah?

Probably as much as you would be in a Provorov for But/Simashev/Iginla/Lamoureux+ type of deal.

 

[Aaaarrgghh]

Would y'all be interested in a Lawson Crouse for Jiricek type of deal, or nah?

Unless Jiricek demands a trade, Columbus will just hold on to him. If there would be a trade, I'd think the price would be substantially higher than that. As a potential top-pairing RHD, Jiricek is quite unique in the Blue Jackets prospect pool. Something around a Nemec, Levshunov, Willander+ or Yakemchuk+, I'd say. If we're talking players, I'd think someone like Rasmus Andersson or even Evan Bouchard (CBJ would add, obviously) would have to be included at the moment.