We are now 24 hours removed from the news that Don Waddell has been added as the Alternate Governor; President of Hockey Operations; and General Manager of the Columbus Blue Jackets. Waddell and the Blue Jackets reached a multi-year agreement for the contract to recruit him to the Buckeye State.
The former Stanley cup winner brings with him recency bias to the market, despite the overall quite and safe hire by the franchise. His former club has a plethora of pending"
free agents; while inherting a young team full of pending restricted free agents.
Here is the full list of expiring deals from Raleigh
Jake Guentzel
Teuvo Teravainen
Jordan Martinook
Stefan Nosen
Brady Skeji
Brett Pesce
Anthony DeAngelo
Jalen Chatfield
Antti Raanta
With about $41M in salary cap space remaining, the only name that jumps to the forefront
is Raanta, unless the Jackets decide to blow things up here to recruit a bunch of jerks.
This will be fascinating watch.
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