Aaron Portzline of The Athletic: Higher-priced coaching options for the Columbus Blue Jackets include Bruce Boudreau, Gerard Gallant, and Claude Julien.
Lower-priced coaching options include Jack Capuano, Kevin Dineen, Rikard Gronborg, Benoit Groulx, Jukka Jalonen, Lane Lambert, Brad Larsen, Manny Malhotra, Kirk Muller, Luke Richardson, Brad Shaw, Rick Tocchet, Mike Vellucci, Pascal Vincent and Geoff Ward.
Pending RFAs include Kole Sherwood, Kevin Stenlund, Calvin Thurkauf, and Cam Johnson.