We’ve had a lot of fun discussing the Columbus Blue Jackets ever-persistent offseason news that won’t go away. The Artemi Panarin saga, life after Sergei Bobrovsky? and everything in between. Check out Pale Dragon’s piece on contracts as it relates to those two aforementioned stars. You might be all in as far as the regular season plays out and playoffs are concerned, ready to risk losing them in free agency. One might play the season out and make that assessment closer to the trade deadline.
Depending on where the team is in the standings, and how management feels about players waiting in the wings — Joonas Korpisalo for instance — can play into how management navigates the season ahead and beyond.