The Blackhawks selected Boqvist eighth overall in 2018 primarily because of his high-end ability in the offensive zone, while Bean was taken 16th overall by Carolina in 2016 for largely the same reason. Bean is 23 and has logged only 76 games at the NHL level, including 44 as a rookie last season with the Hurricanes. Boqvist is only 21 and will play just the 100th game of his NHL career Tuesday against Chicago. Jones is a rock-solid defender who also contributes offensively, which is something neither Boqvist nor Bean provides with consistency yet. Here’s a glance at the key figures of the deal, how their seasons are going and what it all means for the Blue Jackets’ roster recharge.Īdam Boqvist, Jake Bean making progress with Blue Jackets I’m going to wait here, like most people should, in two or three years.”Įnough time has passed, however, to look at some early returns. They got a real good player in Seth Jones. I’m going to pause on the trade evaluation. We got some good players, and there’s still another pick here to come. “I think you wait probably two, three, four years down the road here. “I don’t think you can evaluate this trade yet,” Blue Jackets coach Brad Larsen said Monday.
It was quite a haul from one trade, in terms of potential, but the final measure likely won’t be known for a few years. It stung learning that he had no interest in signing a contract extension.Ī trade was the best solution, and the return from it was the “exciting” part for the Jackets, who acquired Bean, Adam Boqvist and rookie center Cole Sillinger as part of it - along with an additional first-round pick from the Blackhawks in either 2022 or 2023.Īll three were first-round picks and all three are NHL players, including Sillinger, the league’s youngest player at age 18. Seth Jones, who will make his first return to Nationwide Arena Tuesday with the Blackhawks, was a potential captain had he stayed. Hours later, after making three first-round picks, Blue Jackets general manager Jarmo Kekalainen described the day as “bittersweet … but exciting.” He found it on Twitter, and then shortly after that we docked the boat, and I made some calls to find out for real.”
“We were just hanging out on his boat, and he told me that I got traded. “One of my best buddies broke it to me,” said Bean, who was acquired from the Carolina Hurricanes in July for a second-round pick the Blue Jackets picked up in a multi-faceted trade with the Chicago Blackhawks prior to the start of the 2021 NHL draft. This year, Chicago has recorded 779 shooting incidents and 194 homicides, compared to 898 shootings and 207 homicides during the same period in 2021, according to figures last updated by the Chicago Police Department on May 8.Cruising along on Kalamalka Lake in British Columbia, the 23-year old defenseman found out in late July he’d been traded to the Blue Jackets. The shooting comes amid a surge in deadly violence in the city in recent years. demonstration, however participants had largely dispersed by late afternoon. It is unclear if the teen who was shot had taken part in the 1 p.m. against the recently leaked draft opinion that suggests the Supreme Court is prepared to overturn the nationwide right to abortion. Hundreds of people were at the park earlier Saturday as part of demonstrations around the U.S. “We all must condemn this behavior in the strongest terms possible.”
“We must also have zero tolerance for young people carrying firearms or settling petty disputes with acts of violence,” the mayor’s statement said. Her news release referred to young people coming to the downtown area, though it didn’t elaborate. She said new measures will be taken “to help prevent events like this from happening in the future,” adding that details will be provided later.
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