Confirmed Trade: [MIN/CBJ] David Jiricek, 2025 5th round pick for Daemon Hunt, 2025 1st round pick, 2027 2nd round pick, 2026 3rd and 4th round picks

[hawksrule]

Minnesota is likely to finish top 5 in the NHL

Yeah, had a brain fart, was thinking of the cbj pick.

 

[ViD]

How do you turn a recent 6th overall pick into a pick in the late 20's and a pick in the late 50's plus an AHL defender?

Honestly that's a major blunder by Waddell.

I knew it was going to be shit return but I didn’t expect it to be this bad

 

[sisseton]

Wow Big W for the Wild

 

[Nucker42]

Fleece by Minny. Pissed Canucks couldn’t beat this.

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

Minnesota is so loaded up and down their organization. Guerin doing a great job.

 

[ref19]

Great deal for Billy G and the Wild

 

[Soundgarden]

Nashville should have been in on this, cheap for a recent 6OV pick

 

[Vasilevskiy]

Where does he slot in Minny? Because they have a good top 4

 

[Michoulicious]

Montreal can't trade their 1st round pick. We are not contending like the Wild.

We have Calgary's pick

 

[ryan callahan]

Jiricek is mid. Good on CBJ to sell high. Injury history, consistently - in the AHL, bad mobility and problems with coaches and PT is a nasty mix. His ceiling is Matheson at best.

 

[Fjordy]

Looks good for Wild.

 

[cyris]

Someone in Columbus should be fired for this lol
A recent 6th overall pick for an okay prospect a late first and some meh picks. Either they drafted the wrong player way too high and some scouts need to go or they did pick the right guy and messed up his development and trade and some management needs to be fired.

There really isn’t any in between

 

[rynryn]

I unreservedly like this deal for the Wild. This is good.

 

[Jabba11]

We have Calgary's pick

True, but we never know what that pick will be. Rather save it and try to move up for Desnoyers. Anyhow, trade is done and good for the Wild!

 

[Filthy Dangles]

Wow

After the Buckeyes got embarrassed by mediocre Michigan too

Tough day for Columbus-ites

 

[RedHawkDown]

thats kind of what i expected. im not sure why everyone expected top tier assets for a player who had this much smoke around him + had struggled in the NHL so far

 

[periferal]

Columbus just added another 6 years to their current rebuild.

You think their rebuild has a finish line...? The Blue Jackets rebuild is like a merry-go-round running a marathon.

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

Jiricek is mid. Good on CBJ to sell high. Injury history, consistently - in the AHL, bad mobility and problems with coaches and PT is a nasty mix. His ceiling is Matheson at best.

This isn't selling high for a 6th overall, which is why he's bringing back a late 1st and a 2nd.

 

[rynryn]

Where does he slot in Minny? Because they have a good top 4

Spurge is getting old and breaking more easily, as is, sadly, Brodin. Insurance is rad.

 

[DudeWhereIsMakar]

My bigger question is where Jiricek belongs with the Wild? All their RHD are occupied. I mean unless you trade away Bogosian he's on the 3rd pairing. But he is better than Jon Merrill.

 

[MoneyManny]

Man if CBJ didn't have Fantili the fans would be on suicide watch right about now.

 

[Prior]

If he was a RHD, maybe I would see some value here, but now when we have Mateychuk and Svozil in the pipeline, I don’t see the point of getting him

He should play right away in Columbus. Assuming that happens, watch few of his games and report back. Whatever people think he is, he’s not. This is not some AHL defenseman or depth defenseman. He’s got a lot of things going for him. Said it already, he’s been on a Soucy-type path who the Wild also developed.

This is going to be a strong NHL player. Absolutely you can question if he and picks attached equal the promise of whatever Jiricek was supposed to be when drafted. Like it or not that’s not how he should be viewed at this point and has a lot of work to do to get back into that conversation.

 

[go4hockey]

When there is a trade of a player that a post already exists about, the trade deserves its own post. nothing worse than having to skim through the previous post to find where the trade starts.

 

[MoneyManny]

My bigger question is where Jiricek belongs with the Wild? All their RHD are occupied. I mean unless you trade away Bogosian he's on the 3rd pairing. But he is better than Jon Merrill.

If he belonged in the AHL in Columbus there's no doubt that's where he's going in Minni.

 

[MNRube]

My bigger question is where Jiricek belongs with the Wild? All their RHD are occupied. I mean unless you trade away Bogosian he's on the 3rd pairing. But he is better than Jon Merrill.

Bogo & Spurgeon are made of glass. He will likely be needed sooner than later. Bogo has been surprisingly solid for Minnesota. Put him with Brodin, my grandma could be an effective NHL d with him as a partner