Only people on our roster that we’ve traded for recently are Miller and McDonagh, and for miller we gave up Namestnikov who is the same age and worse. Many of our younger, better guys were undrafted or came outside the first round. We’ve actually gotten younger, without Callahan in the line up, adding sergachev, and parting ways with bishop and Boyle, and supposedly shopping Coburn. The bolts have been consistently good due to development and key under the radar FA signing like Stralman and Girardi. We have a 26-30 year old core with some young guys sprinkled in, who will be the 26-30 year old core in a while when these guys start bailing. It’s really similar to how you guys will be built with the amount of guys in both of our line ups that have won’t the Calder cup together!

Looking forward to watching the Blue Jackets succeed, you guys are just in such a strong division and keep coming up on the powerhouse teams that won’t be denied