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Zak MacMillan
Columbus Blue Jackets
Location: Harrisburg, PA
Joined: 09.21.2015

Feb 5 @ 10:45 AM ET
Zak MacMillan: CBJ Report Card What are your grades?


Offense

Johnny Gaudreau

Boone Jenner

Patrik Laine

Gustav Nyquist

Jack Roslovic

Jakub Voracek

Kent Johnson

Cole Sillinger

Yegor Chinakov

Eric Robinson

Sean Kuraly

Mathieu Olivier

Kirill Marchenko

Liam Foudy

Emil Bemstrom

Justin Danforth

Brendan Gaunce

Joshua Dunne

Trey Fix-Wolansky

Carson Meyer

Lane Pederson

Defense

Zach Werenski

Adam Boqvist

Vladislav Gavrikov

Andrew Peeke

Jake Bean

Erik Gudbranson

Gavin Bayreuther

Nick Blankenburg

Tim Breni

Marcus Bjork

David Jiricek

Jake Christiansen

Goalies

Elvis Merzlikins

Joonas Korpisalo

Daniil Tarasov

Coaching Staff

Brad Larsen

Kenny McCudden

Pascal Vincent

Steve McCarthy

Manny Legace

Nicklas Backstrom

Kevin Collins

Dan Singleton

Derek Dorsett

Mark Letestu

Jarkko Ruutu

Brad Thissen

Jared Boll

Joseph Ruane, DO

Larry Watson, MD

Jason Dapore, DO

Greg Bellisari, MD

Ben Burkam, MD

Gregory Rekos, DDS, MS


Management

Jarmo Kekalainen

Basil McRae

Josh Flynn

Rick Nash

Chris Clark

Josef Boumedienne

President

John Davidson

Ownership

Michael Priest

John P. McConnell
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Feb 6 @ 9:56 PM ET
Zak,

I mostly agree with your ratings, though I do not have time for a complete list at the moment.

I think what we see is that we are too young/undeveloped on defense, too hurt up front, and our Goalies have failed miserably except for Korpi.

There are people who should be ahead of where they are on the blue line, which is an indictment of the development team of the CBJ, or a failure of players to grow to be NHL players.

Sadly, it is likely that Chicago and Arizona are likely to pass the CBJ in ugliness the last 30 games, and one of them will get the #1 pick. Which in some ways is okay if the CBJ does not intentionally tank to get the most ping pong balls in the jar. We are truly not that far from being a playoff team now, and maybe next year will see the big jump I though the team would take this year.