Rumor: Kerby Rychel being offered in exchange for a D man

[punk_o_holic]

Yandle is also 1 year away from becoming a UFA. I can see him testing the market.
*Also, yes his cap hit is under $3 mil but makes $5.75 mil next year.

 

[major major]

Marc Staal has been a lot better this year than in the two years prior. It's hard to say whether he's just recovering from his major concussion still, or whether he's already peaked. I'd take him though, he's still better than any d-man we have.

 

[TheOllieC]

Marc Staal has been a lot better this year than in the two years prior. It's hard to say whether he's just recovering from his major concussion still, or whether he's already peaked. I'd take him though, he's still better than any d-man we have.

No he hasn't. He's brutal and that contract is going to look horrible. The puck dies on his stick. Murray is better than him right now.

 

[major major]

No he hasn't. He's brutal and that contract is going to look horrible. The puck dies on his stick. Murray is better than him right now.

You're probably right. Every time I've seen him lately he's playing some good shutdown D, but a deeper look at the stats ain't pretty.

 

[TheOllieC]

You're probably right. Every time I've seen him lately he's playing some good shutdown D, but a deeper look at the stats ain't pretty.

He's fine defensively for a top-4 D, but he has seemingly lost all capabilities with the puck on his stick. Bad decision making, transitioning, and control in the offensive zone.

 

[Crede777]

I hope Jarmo does what is right for the team and hangs onto Rychel despite the contention between the two groups if he can't trade him in a package for an upgrade at defense.

 

[EDM]

Seems to me that the buzz that Rychel is generating on the trade market shows that JK's decision to put him out there was a good move. The final decision about moving him obviously depends on what we get in return. But glad to see JK is exploring all the options.

 

[CBJx614]

I hope Jarmo does what is right for the team and hangs onto Rychel despite the contention between the two groups if he can't trade him in a package for an upgrade at defense.

I agree completely. Sit on him as long as you can, wait until you get exactly what you want for him. I really like Jarmo as a GM in almost every aspect, but his big name trades scare me..

 

[punk_o_holic]

Any interest in these guys? Would either team trade them?

Wild-Marco Scandella
Preds- Mattias Ekholm

 

[WannabeFinn]

Any interest in these guys? Would either team trade them?

Wild-Marco Scandella
Preds- Mattias Ekholm

according to the HERO charts on http://ownthepuck.blogspot.ca/ these guys are beasts

they're both LHD but they're young and have nice advanced stats, both have term/team control in the future as well

 

[CBJfan4evr]

What's going to rankle me is trading a physical number #1 draft pick and then watching us trot Rene Bourque or David Clarkson out there. Guessing the party line will be that need the experienced players to take us to the next step. IMHO we sorely need Rychel's front of the net presence and to trade away for a D upgrade leaves me scratching my head. D-men like this aren't that readily available and would require more than Rychel to acquire. Rychel is a mid range number 1 pick and anything less in return is rubbish.

Better to focus on resigning Letestu (which we won't do). Didn't we learn from the DMAC lesson.... Wash, rinse repeat...

 

[EspenK]

What's going to rankle me is trading a physical number #1 draft pick and then watching us trot Rene Bourque or David Clarkson out there. Guessing the party line will be that need the experienced players to take us to the next step. IMHO we sorely need Rychel's front of the net presence and to trade away for a D upgrade leaves me scratching my head. D-men like this aren't that readily available and would require more than Rychel to acquire. Rychel is a mid range number 1 pick and anything less in return is rubbish.

Better to focus on resigning Letestu (which we won't do). Didn't we learn from the DMAC lesson.... Wash, rinse repeat...

If we can get a comparable D prospect for Rychel I think the trade makes sense. If we can get an established top 4 D for Rychel plus a pick and say a guy like Karlsson or Chaput its a no brainer.

I still say Bourque should be bought out;unfortunately we're stuck with Clarkson unless some other cap strapped team wants him to free up some $.

 

[Cash for Nash]

What's going to rankle me is trading a physical number #1 draft pick and then watching us trot Rene Bourque or David Clarkson out there. Guessing the party line will be that need the experienced players to take us to the next step. IMHO we sorely need Rychel's front of the net presence and to trade away for a D upgrade leaves me scratching my head. D-men like this aren't that readily available and would require more than Rychel to acquire. Rychel is a mid range number 1 pick and anything less in return is rubbish.

Better to focus on resigning Letestu (which we won't do). Didn't we learn from the DMAC lesson.... Wash, rinse repeat...

It would be nice if clarkson could just score 25 goals a year like the contract he signed for....problem solved

 

[WannabeFinn]

What's going to rankle me is trading a physical number #1 draft pick and then watching us trot Rene Bourque or David Clarkson out there. Guessing the party line will be that need the experienced players to take us to the next step. IMHO we sorely need Rychel's front of the net presence and to trade away for a D upgrade leaves me scratching my head. D-men like this aren't that readily available and would require more than Rychel to acquire. Rychel is a mid range number 1 pick and anything less in return is rubbish.

Better to focus on resigning Letestu (which we won't do). Didn't we learn from the DMAC lesson.... Wash, rinse repeat...

Yeah, we're gonna trot Bourque or Clarkson out there on the 4th line. I'd rather trade Rychel for help on D than play him as a 4th liner.

 

[Jackets16]

What's going to rankle me is trading a physical number #1 draft pick and then watching us trot Rene Bourque or David Clarkson out there. Guessing the party line will be that need the experienced players to take us to the next step. IMHO we sorely need Rychel's front of the net presence and to trade away for a D upgrade leaves me scratching my head. D-men like this aren't that readily available and would require more than Rychel to acquire. Rychel is a mid range number 1 pick and anything less in return is rubbish.

Better to focus on resigning Letestu (which we won't do). Didn't we learn from the DMAC lesson.... Wash, rinse repeat...

Yeah, we missed DMAC so much. We would have EASILY mad the playoffs without injuries last year. DMAC was good, but is so overrated on this board. Same with Letestu. As for your other point. We aren't trading him to play those guys. Those guys will play because of how much thay make. It sucks, but it is the truth. We are trading him to improve our team. I know, crazy concept. I could care less if Rychel was a former #1 overall pick. If trading him, or anyone else, makes us a better team we should do it.

 

[blahblah]

Yeah, we missed DMAC so much. We would have EASILY mad the playoffs without injuries last year. DMAC was good, but is so overrated on this board. Same with Letestu.

MacKenzie was a pretty good player. Don't know where you are getting "overrated" from. From him or Letestu. They were rated exactly the type of players they were. This is a long way from the topic of this thread. As far as "missing" MacKenzie, I'm sure his loss was felt at the beginning of the year.

As far as "easily" making the playoffs, none of us has a crystal ball and it took almost 100 points to make it. There were no guarantee's, not to mention Bob was total garbage for a while. We make it sound inevitable that we would have finished the same way if we had stayed closer in the playoff picture. It's just something we tell ourselves to make us feel better going into next season and for enduring the lumps we took last season.

As far as the topic of this thread. No idea why it's so many pages. From what I can tell about everything has been said until we get a new rumor. I don't like giving up potential top six power forwards. But we've got a lot of upside forwards.

 

[Cash for Nash]

MacKenzie was a pretty good player. Don't know where you are getting "overrated" from. From him or Letestu. They were rated exactly the type of players they were. This is a long way from the topic of this thread. As far as "missing" MacKenzie, I'm sure his loss was felt at the beginning of the year.

As far as "easily" making the playoffs, none of us has a crystal ball and it took almost 100 points to make it. There were no guarantee's, not to mention Bob was total garbage for a while. We make it sound inevitable that we would have finished the same way if we had stayed closer in the playoff picture. It's just something we tell ourselves to make us feel better going into next season and for enduring the lumps we took last season.

As far as the topic of this thread. No idea why it's so many pages. From what I can tell about everything has been said until we get a new rumor. I don't like giving up potential top six power forwards. But we've got a lot of upside forwards.

Pretty fair take on everything.

 

[JacketsDavid]

MacKenzie was a pretty good player. Don't know where you are getting "overrated" from. From him or Letestu. They were rated exactly the type of players they were. This is a long way from the topic of this thread. As far as "missing" MacKenzie, I'm sure his loss was felt at the beginning of the year.

As far as "easily" making the playoffs, none of us has a crystal ball and it took almost 100 points to make it. There were no guarantee's, not to mention Bob was total garbage for a while. We make it sound inevitable that we would have finished the same way if we had stayed closer in the playoff picture. It's just something we tell ourselves to make us feel better going into next season and for enduring the lumps we took last season.

As far as the topic of this thread. No idea why it's so many pages. From what I can tell about everything has been said until we get a new rumor. I don't like giving up potential top six power forwards. But we've got a lot of upside forwards.

Only thing I would add on Dmac and Letestu - You can only lock up so many 4th line players long term. That has been a major problem of the CBJ is we lock up way too may 3rd/4th line forwards long-term (it forces those guys to play up a line or two if a youngster earns a roster spot in camp). That being said you want to lock up the right guys, but in this case we likely don't have the roster flexibility to pay Letestu what he is likely to get from other teams (I think he can get a 3 year deal elsewhere).

Agree 100% on playoffs - no guarantees on anything. You can start with the health thing - assuming Bub and Murray will be healthy is a terrible assumption to start with.

 

[EspenK]

Only thing I would add on Dmac and Letestu - You can only lock up so many 4th line players long term. That has been a major problem of the CBJ is we lock up way too may 3rd/4th line forwards long-term (it forces those guys to play up a line or two if a youngster earns a roster spot in camp). That being said you want to lock up the right guys, but in this case we likely don't have the roster flexibility to pay Letestu what he is likely to get from other teams (I think he can get a 3 year deal elsewhere).

Agree 100% on playoffs - no guarantees on anything. You can start with the health thing - assuming Bub and Murray will be healthy is a terrible assumption to start with.

I think we do if we want to. IF he is willing to stay for a 3 yr 2-2.5 deal we can fit him. I will be surprised if we do keep him but its doable.

 

[Craft29]

What do Blue Jackets fans and Islanders fans think of this trade?

To Islanders: Kerby Rychel + 3rd round pick

To Blue Jackets: Ryan Pulock

Why it works, Columbus needs D help and the inslanders have a surplus of D prospects and not much depth on the wings.

 

[Nordique]

What do Blue Jackets fans and Islanders fans think of this trade?

To Islanders: Kerby Rychel + 3rd round pick

To Blue Jackets: Ryan Pulock

Why it works, Columbus needs D help and the inslanders have a surplus of D prospects and not much depth on the wings.

As much as I hate trade fantasy on HF, that's a pretty sound proposal.

 

[CBJx614]

What do Blue Jackets fans and Islanders fans think of this trade?

To Islanders: Kerby Rychel + 3rd round pick

To Blue Jackets: Ryan Pulock

Why it works, Columbus needs D help and the inslanders have a surplus of D prospects and not much depth on the wings.

Id definitely think about it. Which is more then I can say about majority of the other proposals for Rychel.

 

[Mayor Bee]

What do Blue Jackets fans and Islanders fans think of this trade?

To Islanders: Kerby Rychel + 3rd round pick

To Blue Jackets: Ryan Pulock

Why it works, Columbus needs D help and the inslanders have a surplus of D prospects and not much depth on the wings.

Columbus had Pulock somewhere around #32 on their draft board in 2013. It's certainly possible that's changed over time, but that's where he was at that point.

This was publicly viewable on one of the "Behind the Battle" videos, but I can't find the exact one. I'll link it if I can.

 

[Cash for Nash]

Columbus had Pulock somewhere around #32 on their draft board in 2013. It's certainly possible that's changed over time, but that's where he was at that point.

This was publicly viewable on one of the "Behind the Battle" videos, but I can't find the exact one. I'll link it if I can.

Probably because pullock was a wiz clone. Ownership no likey wizs game

 

[cslebn]

What about Mayfield from the NYI?