Then flip Johansen to Nashville for Craig Smith and Colin Wilson or to San Jose with Wisniewski to the Sharks for Joe Thornton like you suggested in the summer.
You sure you aren't missing a couple names? Like the most important players that would be coming back to Columbus in such trades...
As late as mid September during the "saga" I through out Johansen and a 2nd for Wilson, Smith and
Forsberg. It was and still is a trade that I think would help both teams. It is not lopsided in any way, and with the breakout of Forsberg you can easily make the case that Nashville/neither team WOULD do it. THAT is the only type of trade that IS realistic. This was during a time that I still thought Wennberg was a better prospect than Rychel/Dano, you guys wanted to dump Foligno over anything over 4.5 mil and Kevin Cannauton was literally not brought up (and possibly not thought of) a single time. There was also Wiz+Johansen for Weber and Forsberg. Would Poille have done that 4 months ago? How about now? Would you? You bring up me wanting to "dump" Wisniewski and Johansen to Nashville without mentioning it would involve us bringing back a top defenseman in the league in Weber and a prospect that's 10 times the player pretty boy Wennberg is. And the SJ 1 was Johansen and Wisniewski for Thornton
AND Pavelski.
Now look up the numbers/stats (real numbers) for these 6 guys, look at where their teams are at in the standings, and compare that to Wisniewski and Johansen's numbers and tell me how these would be or would've been bad trades for the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Get your calculators and advanced corsi's out