[QUOTE="Long Live Lyle, post: Could maybe also do without Holm and Domi in the Jones-Marner deal, keep Domi as a 2/3C (with Roz as the other 2/3C, potentially Tex as well) and not have to worry about signing Granlund and can roll with Werenski, Hamilton, Gavrikov, Peeke, Lehtonen, Kukan, MDZ, Harrington and/or maybe a bottom pair FA signing.
The problem is you're relying on all those things to hit. If one or two don't then it hurts things. I'm not going to say it's disastrous to have any of Hamilton or Marner or Eichel signed for 4+ years, but it puts you in a bit of a limbo if you only get one rather than if you either have all 3 (or at least 2) of them or plan for a "conventional" rebuild.
You bring up Hamilton a lot. Do you have any indication he'd want to sign here? I haven't seen anything of the sort. (I'm including it for this hypothetical. Would love if something like that were true, I've just heard nothing of the sort.)
ETA: Looking over that roster, I think I'd want to try to re-sign Foligno, if you're going to give up Jenner. That's a lot of grit/sandpaper out the door in a short time (Foligno, Anderson, Savard, Dubois, Dubinsky, Jenner...). I tend to think it's overrated to be honest, but you need some, and looking over that lineup, I'm honestly not sure if we'd have any. Maybe Dunne? Sort of Robinson/Foudy, I guess, but not really?[/QUOTE]
That is certainly the concern L3, but I thing M2 was just trying to show a retool scenario that could restore the Jackets to a very competitive state. By adding Eichel, Marner, Hamilton on long term contracts we could put the constant worry of signings behind us - and field a highly competitive team with a top young goalie. This is a dream scenario - assuming our current core is what we think it is, this team should be fighting until the last games of a playoff - Give the City of Columbus a chance to flip the coin in one off season & show the entire world how empassioned Blue Jackets can be.
There are some really good players in this core and they are all really young Zach, Vlad, Elvis, Bjork, Tex, Bem, Foudy - add our Russian prospects into this mix and this could catch fire.
I watched a lot of the SCC St Louis Blues.. they were at the bottom of the entire league in January(Pietrangelo, Tarasenko, Shwartz, Steen, Schenn) changed their coach, the newly added Ryan O'Reilly got acclimated and a young hot goalie Bennington caught fire. That was a miracle turn around. It can happen.