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

[TheNumber4]

2026 4th is offset by the 2025 5th they gave up in the deal.

Hunt is 22 and I doubt he even has the value of a 3rd round pick at this point.

Yeh pretty much 4th only slightly better than 5th so let’s cancel it out.

So that’s still 4 picks for one.

I don’t know much about Hunt but someone must have liked him.

That said, Jiricek is a guy that still needs to develop his skating and has shown issues with AHL deployment. There’s question marks with him too.

 

[CannonFire1]

You'll have to pardon us for assuming that our GM was minimally competent.

Waddell's moves have been pretty good since coming to Columbus. He also has way more information about the player and the situation than any of us do. I get the disappointment over Jiricek not panning out with CBJ, but concluding DW is incompetent seems quite a stretch.

 

[Eye of Ra]

Why would any parents name their kid demon?

 

[sisseton]

Why is Minnesota taking young players from teams that either have a window, or are looking to have a window... Minnesota is not allowed to have windows... sakes!!!

I think Jiriceck prefers Mac's anyways

 

[57special]

Not really, no. And when you see a 6'4+ prospect you'd hope he plays physical....well he doesn't. If he's going to hit his potential he's going to have to put on some serious weight and muscle. I think that might be part of why the CBJ FO wants to move, they told guys like LDBB, Mateychuk, KJ to go put on some muscle and work on some things and come back next year and try to steal a spot. Mateychuk and LDBB have established themselves as #1s in Cleveland this year and KJ is looking like he's establishing himself as a #1 in Columbus.

Meanwhile Jiricek thinks he's NHL capable but couldn't beat out Jack Johnson, Jordan Harris or Christiansen in the NHL and was playing second pair in Cleveland.

You might want to do some research. Jackets are on the cusp of a playoff spot after being unanimously believed to be a lottery team, which could still happen.. But it's being led by jackets draft picks, KJ looks like a #1 play driving winger who can do it all, Werenski is literally a #1-2 D in the entire league right now. Marchenko, Chinakov and Voronkov are all playing lights out. As is Elvis.

Meanwhile Mateychuk is one of the top scorers in the entire AHL and leads all defenseman and LDBB has established himself as the #1C on one of the best teams in the AHL.

Obviously it's still early but the Jackets future looks bright, especially if the Jackets find their way into the playoffs this year. And this is all while Jenner(C) and Gudbranson(A) have been hurt the entire season

I've heard Mateychuk is looking really good, and KJ looks like a different player this year. Faster, stronger, dangerous offensively - he always had the skill. Reminds me of Mittelstadt, except that KJ might've fast tracked his development more than Mittelstadt, who took forever to finally get his man strength.

Rossi did the same for us. Hopefully Jiricek will watch, listen and imitate what the successful players like Spurgeon have done to make themselves into excellent players rather than whine to his agent about how he is getting any chances.

 

[Gregor Samsa]

I’m guessing this trade was made betting on Jiricek’s stock to fall. Unless he was disgruntled with the organization? Seems more like a GM making an evaluation of his prospect and deciding he isn’t going to pan out as hoped. Time will tell

 

[TheNumber4]

All of which are near-valueless and therefore not of any real meaning whatsoever in evaluating the trade.

Seriously. They're a bunch of late picks that'll be made around the same time Werenski turns 30. They get us f***-all.

What do you mean “value-less”. They get traded for value every TDL. Picks obviously have value, they are currency in the NHL as good as cash in the real world.

In aggregate you add the values of the picks and you got yourself a near equivalent value to a high end prospect who himself was a Pick too before he became the prospect.

 

[Viqsi]

In aggregate you add the values of the picks

Wake me when that happens in our favor literally ever in our history.

 

[SteelCityCannon]

And we had yet again plenty of Columbus fans in full denial over the past week. They kept grasping at straws and living in denial. This is a big reality check for them

Id say most are content to borderline happy. I'm fired up with what we're doing.

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

Wake me when that happens in our favor literally ever in our history.

It may well have here. Jiricek may well be a dud. If he isn't then Waddell should be fired for being unable to evluate players.

 

[TheNumber4]

Wake me when that happens in our favor literally ever in our history.

Bruh. Didn’t you guys get Marchenko in the 2nd round? Maybe CBJ scouts have a good thing going there and want more bullets in the chamber.

 

[Viqsi]

It may well have here. Jiricek may well be a dud. If he isn't then Waddell should be fired for being unable to evluate players.

When was the last time we packaged multiple picks to get a core player?

 

[Viqsi]

Bruh. Didn’t you guys get Marchenko in the 2nd round? Maybe CBJ scouts have a good thing going there and want more bullets in the chamber.

Generally you can get those without giving away blue-chip prospects.

 

[UED]

as far as i'm aware, jiricek's potential is ristolainen. and i wouldnt claim ristolainen off waivers, and I would judge anyone who would! great job by columbus weaponizing draft position, which of course is more important than the player himself !

 

[MMC]

Makes the Drysdale trade look even better for the Ducks

 

[Fledgemyhedge]

Wake me when that happens in our favor literally ever in our history.

atleast you can say you’re consistent in your views it’s funny reading other Bj fans shitting on jiricek now and acting like this is a w.

You absolutely want a trade for a similar level prospect ala yager/mccgroarty , gauthier/drysdale or it’s bad. I would’ve been happy swapping reinbacher. A package of late picks is pretty brutal

 

[CanadienShark]

Wake me when that happens in our favor literally ever in our history.

IIRC, Fantilli was supposed to go #2 and "fell" to Columbus. I'm a Carlsson fan, but I think popular opinion was Fantilli was the #2 and could've been #1 in many drafts. That was "in your favour" at least at the time. Meanwhile Sharks were "unlucky" and had to pick Smith.

 

[614 CBJ]

I can't believe Waddell picked him in the first place

 

[AnInjuredJasonZucker]

Why would any parents name their kid demon?

Problematic if his last name was Friend, but his last name is Hunt. Not a name so much as destiny. Hopefully his goal song is by this band:

 

[olli]

No way CLB fans are happy with this, right? A lot of the proposals posted here were way better than the actual return yet turned down by the CLB fans here

Fans almost always expect more in trades than what actually happens unless their team is selling a veteran player with intangibles at the deadline.

 

[PanniniClaus]

blah. I just don't like it.

See if Minnesota becomes the platform for Jiricek to improve his skating and then becomes a 10 year guy for them.

 

[seafoam]

This is an interesting deal. I like it for Columbus but if Jiricek hits it’s a win-win.

 

[SteelCityCannon]

I can't believe Waddell picked him in the first place

If you're talking about Jiricek he didn't lol. That was Jarmo. Waddell would have never taken him.

 

[Hale The Villain]

Yeh pretty much 4th only slightly better than 5th so let’s cancel it out.

So that’s still 4 picks for one.

I don’t know much about Hunt but someone must have liked him.

That said, Jiricek is a guy that still needs to develop his skating and has shown issues with AHL deployment. There’s question marks with him too.

You can think it's a fair return for Jiricek, but that doesn't change the fact that no team would ever consider trading down from 8th overall to the late 1st (where Minnesota's pick sits right now) to get a 2027 2nd, 2026 3rd and a fringe prospect.

 

[Viqsi]

IIRC, Fantilli was supposed to go #2 and "fell" to Columbus. I'm a Carlsson fan, but I think popular opinion was Fantilli was the #2 and could've been #1 in many drafts. That was "in your favour" at least at the time. Meanwhile Sharks were "unlucky" and had to pick Smith.

Because, y'know, we totally got the future #3 overall pick as part of this deal.

I'm talking about combining lots and lots of late picks to get higher-end assets. Which we've literally never been able to do before.