The Blue Jackets completed the first blockbuster trade of the season when they traded Pierre-Luc Dubois and a 2022 third-round draft pick to the Winnipeg Jets for Jack Roslovic and Patrik Laine. The players will have to quarantine for 14 days and miss seven games. The biggest question mark is Laine who is on the last year of his current deal and is a pending restricted free agent. The trade can only be judged after that contract is figured out and he re-signs.
#CBJ GM JARMO KEKALAINEN:
"If [a trade] was his request, he had to be under contract.