The Columbus Blue Jackets trade stumpily with the Coyotes of Arizona

The Columbus Blue Jackets send Jacob Graves and a draft pick in Arizona for Ryan MacInnis.

Jarmo and Company refrain from thinking about Artemi Panarin's contractual situation by exchanging minor leagues with desert teams. Today, the Columbus Blue Jackets have acquired Ryan MacInnis Center of the Arizona Coyotes

In exchange, the Yotes are receiving Jacob Graves, a 23-year-old defenseman who has spent the last two years in bounce between the LAH and the ECHL. The worst part of the case is that they also dropped a conditional 2019 sixth-round pick that could turn into a fifth-round pick of 2020.

Ryan MacInnis certainly has a rich pedigree. His father, Al MacInnis, is a Hall of Fame member, a Stanley Cup winner who has won the best mustache in the history of the NHL. MacInnis played for the US National Development Program, played in the U-17 and U-20 World Championships, and was selected in the second round in 2014.

But MacInnis, a center that played for the Tucson Roadrunners the last two seasons, did not live up to this pedigree. In 127 games, MacInnis had 14 goals and 17 badists for an impressive 31 points. That's .24 points per game. Woof.

He did not play a match at the NHL level even though he spent the last two years with a dismal Coyotes team that played a lot of young players. Although Jacob Graves does not have much to send, the choice is not great. MacInnis at this point has a tiny chance of having an impact at the NHL level. Much lower than a 6th round choice to make the NHL. The Jackets should know, they have two 6th round picks in Lukas Sedlak and Cam Atkinson both of which are impacting.

And if MacInnis beats the odds and plays 20 games for the Columbus Blue Jackets, the 6th round pick turns into the 5th round pick in 2020.

So what? It's an end-of-turn choice that may not work either. Well now, Jackets have only four picks in the repechage next season. They traded the second round choice in the Vegas expansion agreement. The 5th edition of 2019 was traded for a 6th round pick this year which turned into defender Tim Berni. Now the Jackets will be without their selection in the 6th round.

All of these moves add up and give an organization less chance of hitting a potential player who turns into an NHL player. And all this for a player who scores on average four points in the AHL

The front office clearly knows what we do not know too much distracted by the chaos Artemi Panarin to make a good deal. The choice is killer for a player like MacInnis who will be in Cleveland for most of the season.

This agreement is shouting "Another Move is Coming" for me. The Jackets have a good stable of young AHL centers and with the addition of Riley Nash, they have decent options on the third and fourth lines at Nash, Brandon Dubinksy, Lukas Sedlak and Jonathan Davidsson where he can make l & # 39; team.

say if this move was to open another trade that Jarmo has in mind.