{"id":466814,"date":"2023-10-23T15:02:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=466814"},"modified":"2023-10-23T15:02:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:02:56","slug":"columbus-working-the-phones-to-trade-a-defenceman","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/columbus-working-the-phones-to-trade-a-defenceman\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbus  &#8216;working the phones&#8217; to trade a defenceman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Hockey League franchises needing defense help should call the Columbus Blue Jackets.<\/p>\n<p>Columbus GM Jarmo Kek\u00e4l\u00e4inen &#8220;is still working the phones in an attempt to trade a defenceman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The organization has 8 defencemen on their squad, with Adam Boqvist and Andrew Peeke being used as healthy scratches in their latest matches.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie David Jiricek is now ahead of the named 2 for a role in the top 6, but he is the only group member who can be sent to the AHL without clearing waivers.<\/p>\n<p>Jiricek, picked 6<sup>th<\/sup> overall at the 2022 NHL Draft, has a goal and an assist in 4 matches this campaign. The young defenseman played 4 matches with Columbus last campaign, as he was sent for most of the time to the AHL&#8217;s Cleveland Monsters.<\/p>\n<p>Boqvist is yet to earn a point despite playing 2 matches this campaign. He notched 5 goals and earned 24 points in 46 matches with the organization in the past campaign.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">According to reports, the Columbus Blue Jackets are actively attempting to trade a defenseman at the moment. The club is currently carrying 8 blue liners and would like to move one within the next week. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CBJ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CBJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dynes Sports (@dynessports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dynessports\/status\/1716450570184044748?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Hockey League franchises needing defense help should call the Columbus Blue Jackets. Columbus GM Jarmo Kek\u00e4l\u00e4inen &#8220;is still working the phones in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":466815,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16870,17844],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[17874,6811],"acf":{"announce":"The Blue Jackets want to move a defenceman.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466816,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466814\/revisions\/466816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466814"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=466814"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=466814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}