{"id":457374,"date":"2024-11-30T17:15:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T22:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=457374"},"modified":"2024-11-30T17:19:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T22:19:46","slug":"david-jiricek-trade-columbus-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/11\/30\/david-jiricek-trade-columbus-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"David Ji\u0159\u00ed\u010dek Traded by Columbus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After months of speculation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/j\/jiricda01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-11-29_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Ji\u0159\u00ed\u010dek<\/a> has been traded by the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/bluejackets\/\" target=\"_self\">Columbus Blue Jackets.<\/a> Ji\u0159\u00ed\u010dek hadn&#8217;t been able to establish himself on the current Blue Jackets roster after playing 43 NHL games last season. His and the team&#8217;s mutual frustration, plus the league standings, eventually led to this.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trade details, per sources:<\/p>\n<p>To <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mnwild?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#mnwild<\/a>: David Jiricek, 5th Rd Pick<br \/>To <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CBJ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#CBJ<\/a>: Damon Hunt, 2025 1st Rd Pick, 2027 2nd Rd Pick, 4th Rd Pick<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Frank Seravalli (@frank_seravalli) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/frank_seravalli\/status\/1862982417574924526?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>David Ji\u0159\u00ed\u010dek Finally Moved<\/h3>\n<p>The highly-touted Ji\u0159\u00ed\u010dek was drafted <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/05\/10\/david-jiricek-scouting-report-2022-nhl-draft\/\" target=\"_self\">sixth overall<\/a> in the 2022 NHL Entry Draft. There are few players ahead of him for games played in that same class, but expectations were high. For good reason, the already 6&#8217;3&#8243; Ji\u0159\u00ed\u010dek was playing against men since he was 17 and showing well.<\/p>\n<p>Whether they were too high is going to be difficult to say until he&#8217;s in another system, but he was recalled from the AHL eight times in the 2022-23 season. Clearly, his coaches saw something there that they liked beyond his size. While he only scored one goal and ten points in the NHL, his AHL scoring numbers have been excellent.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very rare to see a prospect moved when he&#8217;s still on his entry-level contract, especially one drafted in the top ten. Even more so when that prospect is such a rare commodity. Every team in the league is scouring the trade lists for a big, smooth-skating right-shot defenceman. The Wild happened to come up with the best package.<\/p>\n<h3>Who Got What<\/h3>\n<p>In David Ji\u0159\u00ed\u010dek, the Wild get a right-side defenceman who can handle the puck well, produce points, and isn&#8217;t afraid to use his size. They also have him under team control, as he will negotiate his next contract as a restricted free agent. There is some risk involved in getting such a young player, but it&#8217;s not hard to see the upside here.<\/p>\n<p>For Columbus, they are still a team trying to find their identity. A player like Ji\u0159\u00ed\u010dek is expendable at this time in their team\u2019s progress into contention. General manager Don Waddell has shown he\u2019s not afraid to make a trade, if he thinks it benefits his club in one way or another. They will move into contention, but it is a process and this is a move that shows that to be true. The draft picks were definitely \u00a0an influence in closing the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: Dan DeChiara &#8211; Image Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of speculation, David Ji\u0159\u00ed\u010dek has been traded by the Columbus Blue Jackets. Ji\u0159\u00ed\u010dek hadn&#8217;t been able to establish himself on the current Blue Jackets roster after playing 43 NHL games last season. His and the team&#8217;s mutual frustration, plus the league standings, eventually led to this. Trade details, per sources: To #mnwild: David [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3171,"featured_media":457489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4547,30,34,4548],"tags":[6929,6248],"class_list":["post-457374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bluejackets","category-hockey","category-wild","category-news","category-nhl","tag-david-jiricek","tag-minnesota-wild-news"],"modified_by":"Levi Pike, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}