This may seem like a knee-jerk reaction to the Jackets disaster of a first game of the season, but I am honestly shocked the forward group which finished near the bottom of the standings was kept nearly intact.
To COL:
-Ryan Murray
-Boone Jenner
-Gregory Campbell (salary reasons)
To CBJ:
-Matt Duchene
-Nikita Zadorov
Jackets fans: I know you're thinking that there is no chance we give up Jenner, but in this case, you have to give to get. And Avs fans: I know you're high on Zadorov, but Murray is certainly no slouch (as seen in the WCoH where he was NA's best defensive defenseman). Avalanche get a top-pairing LHD and a heart and soul kind of player that scored 30g last season. Jackets get their top-line center who fits into the young core of the team and a young up and coming LHD in return.
Not too familiar with the what the Avs' forward lines look like, but center depth of MacKinnon-Jenner-Soderberg as your top-9 centers can compete with anyone in the central division.
Jackets lineup this season would look like this:
Saad-Duchene-Atkinson
Foligno-Dubinsky-Bjorkstrand
Hartnell-Wennberg-Gagner
Calvert-Karlsson-Anderson
Werenski-Jones
Zadorov-Savard
Johnson-Prout
and in a year..
Saad-Duchene-Atkinson
Dubinsky-Dubois-Foligno
Hartnell-Wennberg-Bjorkstrand
Calvert-Karlsson-Anderson
To COL:
-Ryan Murray
-Boone Jenner
-Gregory Campbell (salary reasons)
To CBJ:
-Matt Duchene
-Nikita Zadorov
Jackets fans: I know you're thinking that there is no chance we give up Jenner, but in this case, you have to give to get. And Avs fans: I know you're high on Zadorov, but Murray is certainly no slouch (as seen in the WCoH where he was NA's best defensive defenseman). Avalanche get a top-pairing LHD and a heart and soul kind of player that scored 30g last season. Jackets get their top-line center who fits into the young core of the team and a young up and coming LHD in return.
Not too familiar with the what the Avs' forward lines look like, but center depth of MacKinnon-Jenner-Soderberg as your top-9 centers can compete with anyone in the central division.
Jackets lineup this season would look like this:
Saad-Duchene-Atkinson
Foligno-Dubinsky-Bjorkstrand
Hartnell-Wennberg-Gagner
Calvert-Karlsson-Anderson
Werenski-Jones
Zadorov-Savard
Johnson-Prout
and in a year..
Saad-Duchene-Atkinson
Dubinsky-Dubois-Foligno
Hartnell-Wennberg-Bjorkstrand
Calvert-Karlsson-Anderson