https://www.sportsnet.ca/podcasts/32-thoughts/this-is-draft-day/

Names connected to Columbus: Noah Dobson, Nikolaj Ehlers, Bryan Rust.

  • Dobson: Friedman says the two teams that make sense for Dobson are Montreal and Nashville but he wonders about Columbus too. He’s looking at teams with multiple first rounders and Preds have 3 picks (including 5OA).
  • Draft could be the deadline to get this done, Isles want the picks to see if they can move up (rumor is they want Hagens).
  • He confirms a Dobson trade would include an extension and his ask is around 10M.
  • Ehlers: connects him to Washington and Carolina but he said some people also wonder about Columbus becasue of all the cap room. Carolina has had interest before and also have a lot of cap space.
  • He mentions Buffalo and Columbus are interested in Rust from Pittsburgh

6 comments

  1. Rust is a good middle 6 guy but I’m not sure the fit with Columbus. The rest of those guys though seem like great fits.

  2. Worried about our name in the Dobson sweepstakes. He doesn’t seemed to be a defensively oriented Dmen and he’ll be Z level expensive. We need a RHD but more specifically we need defensively responsible RHD. We don’t want 7 years of trying to fit an expensive square peg in a round hole.

  3. I worry about the cost of an inter-division trade for Dobson. It’s always more expensive when the former team has to play that guy 4 times a year. He’s good, but I think there are better fits/more responsible right d-men available.

  4. Getting a little concerned there’s not going to be much out there for us to improve. While we had a magical run, there were stretches of play that were what we were expected to be, which was a lottery team. Of course you don’t want to just spend to spend, and if we can upgrade the goaltending’s that will obviously help, but goaltending wasn’t the problem through those biblical scoring droughts

  5. I agree with other comments. Rust doesn’t interest me a ton, but I guess for the right price, why not? If we strike out on bigger RW names…

    Dobson would be my preferred acquisition with one of those 1sts. Im really keeping my fingers crossed for him.

  6. So we’re in on everyone is what I’m getting from this.

    Hopefully we don’t miss out. Would be delighted if we somehow got Ehlers.

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