Waddell gettin busy

Created by: Turbo_Duncan

Team: 2024-25 Columbus Blue Jackets

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 24, 2024

Published: Jun. 24, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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Original Team

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Right Handed

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Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

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Let’s get PHYSICAL!!!!

This is going to be a wild week and I think Waddell is going to be making some moves. Hire Todd McLellan and bring in some guys that play hard. McGroarty, Crouse and Kulikov will add nicely to the locker room and physical presence on the ice.

Svozil and Mateychuk don’t make the NHL roster to start but get called up after Provorov, Kulikov and Rutta get dealt at the deadline.

Malatesta, Pinelli and Brindley form the “honey badger line” that becomes Cleveland’s best line.

BPA at 4OA, which is one of Demidov, Levshunov, Silayev or Lindstrom. I’d also be fine with Parekh, Buium, or Dickinson, but really hoping Demidov falls to us because I think he’s going to be an elite top-line game breaker which we need.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
McGroarty, Rutger		3	$950,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Greaves, Jet	3	$910,000
Marchenko, Kirill	5	$5,000,000
Sillinger, Cole	3	$3,200,000
Nylander, Alexander	1	$1,500,000
Christiansen, Jake	1	$875,000
Angle, Tyler	1	$875,000
Bjork, Marcus	1	$875,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Kulikov, Dmitry		1	$1,500,000
Jost, Tyson		1	$1,000,000

Trades

CBJ

Crouse, Lawson

UTA

Laine, Patrik ($2,000,000 retained)

CBJ

2024 3rd round pick (TOR)

SEA

Boqvist, Adam

CBJ

2026 3rd round pick (COL)

SJS

Bean, Jake [RFA Rights]
2026 6th round pick (PIT)

CBJ

2024 2nd round pick (CBJ)

PHI

2025 2nd round pick (CBJ)

Buyouts

Alexander Wennberg: $891,667

Retained Salary Transactions

Patrik Laine: $2,000,000 (22.99%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2024
2025
2026

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$88,000,000	$77,193,333	$0	$4,200,000	$10,806,667

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Gaudreau, Johnny $9,750,000$9,750,000 LW NMC UFA - 5	Fantilli, Adam $950,000$950,000 ($3,200,000$3M) C RFA - 2	Crouse, Lawson $4,300,000$4,300,000 LW, RW UFA - 3
Chinakhov, Yegor $2,100,000$2,100,000 RW, LW RFA - 2	Voronkov, Dmitri $925,000$925,000 LW, C, RW RFA - 1	Marchenko, Kirill $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW RFA
Jenner, Boone $3,750,000$3,750,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 2	Sillinger, Cole $3,200,000$3,200,000 C RFA	McGroarty, Rutger $950,000$950,000 LW, C RFA
Nylander, Alexander $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW, LW RFA	Kuraly, Sean $2,500,000$2,500,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 1	Danforth, Justin $1,100,000$1,100,000 RW, C UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Werenski, Zachary $9,583,333$9,583,333 LD NMC UFA - 4	Jiricek, David $918,333$918,333 ($1,000,000$1M) RD RFA - 2	Merzlikins, Elvis $5,400,000$5,400,000 G M-NTC UFA - 3
Provorov, Ivan $4,725,000$4,725,000 LD UFA - 1	Severson, Damon $6,250,000$6,250,000 RD NTC UFA - 7	Tarasov, Daniil $1,050,000$1,050,000 G RFA - 1
Kulikov, Dmitry $1,500,000$1,500,000 LD/RD UFA	Gudbranson, Erik $4,000,000$4,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Olivier, Mathieu $1,100,000$1,100,000 RW UFA - 1
Jost, Tyson $1,000,000$1,000,000 C UFA
Rutta, Jan $2,750,000$2,750,000 LD/RD UFA - 1

Top Comments

Mon. at 9:19 p.m.

njlaforte

Joined: Jan. 2021

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Any chance a Jiricek for McGroarty trade would work?

Mon. at 9:20 p.m.

Turbo_Duncan

Joined: Jul. 2016

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Likes: 5

Quoting: njlaforte

Any chance a Jiricek for McGroarty trade would work?

**** no

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Mon. at 9:21 p.m.

MisstheWhalers

Joined: Jan. 2019

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Schmidt and Rutger for Laine and Ceulemans.

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Mon. at 9:24 p.m.

Turbo_Duncan

Joined: Jul. 2016

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Quoting: MisstheWhalers

Schmidt and Rutger for Laine and Ceulemans.

WPG isn’t going to bring back Laine. Waddell prefers a hockey trade.

Mon. at 9:26 p.m.

MisstheWhalers

Joined: Jan. 2019

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Quoting: Turbo_Duncan

WPG isn’t going to bring back Laine. Waddell prefers a hockey trade.

Winnipeg should bring back Laine.

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