Metropolitan Division: Columbus Blue Jackets Season Primer
Columbus Blue Jackets season primer

A quick look at the Columbus Blue Jackets heading into the season.

Salary Cap Situation – source Cap Friendly

Salary Cap Situation
Projected Cap Hit: $69,182,143
Projected Cap Space: $3,817,857
Projected LTIR Used : $0
Current Cap Space: $3,817,857
Deadline Cap Space : $17,180,357
Todays Cap Hit : $69,182,143
Roster Size: 20/23
Contract: 49/50

Offseason Moves – In/Out source Sports Forecaster

In
Sam Gagner, C/W – FA – Phi
Jacob Graves, D – FA
Dante Salituro, C – FA
Scott Harrington, D – T – Tor
Justin Scott, C/W – FA

Out
Jared Boll, RW – FA – Ana
Michael Paliotta, D – FA – NYR
Michael Chaput, C/LW – FA – Van
Fedor Tyutin, D – FA – Col
Justin Falk, D – FA – Buf
Kerby Rychel, LW – T – Tor

Depth Chart

Forward
Brandon Saad – Brandon Dubinsky – Cam Atkinson
Boone Jenner – Alexander Wennberg – Nick Foligno
Scott Hartnell – Sam Gagner – Oliver Bjorkstrand
William Karlsson – Gregory Campbell – Matt Calvert
Sonny Milano – Lukas Sedlak – Josh Anderson

Defense
Ryan Murray – Seth Jones
Jack Johnson – David Savard
Zach Werenski – Dalton Prout
Cody Goloubef – Scott Harrington
Dillon Heatherington – Dean Kukan

Goalies
Sergei Bobrovsky
Joonas Korpisalo
Curtis McElhinney
Anton Forsberg

2017 Draft Picks

1st – Columbus
2nd – Columbus*
3rd – Columbus
4th – Columbus
5th – Columbus
6th – Columbus
7th – Columbus

* Owe Vancouver a 2017 or 2018 2nd round pick for hiring John Tortorella

2017 Free Agents

Unrestricted –  Brett Gallant, Cody Goloubef, Curtis McElhinney, Gregory Campbell, Jaime Sifers, Sam Gagner

Restricted –  Alex Broadhurst, Alexander Wennberg, Anton Forsberg, Daniel Zaar, Dean Kukan, Joonas Korpisalo, Josh Anderson, Lukas Sedlak, Markus Hannikainen, Oleg Yevenko, Oscar Dansk, Scott Harrington, T.J. Tynan

2016-17 Columbus Blue Jackets Pre-season and Regular Season Schedule