Blue Jackets: Jarmo’s Top 5 Trades
By Frank Walker
Jun 26, 2015; Sunrise, FL, USA; Gabriel Carlsson poses for a photo with team officials after being selected as the number twenty-nine overall pick to the Columbus Blue Jackets in the first round of the 2015 NHL Draft at BB&T Center. Mandatory Credit: Steve Mitchell-USA TODAY Sports
On Febuary 13th of 2013 Jarmo Kekalainen was named general manager of the Columbus Blue Jackets. As the first NHL General Manager from outside of North America Blue Jackets fans only had some basic information about him from his eight year stint with the St. Louis Blues during which time he was promoted to Assistant General Manager.
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Now Columbus Blue Jackets fans have three drafts and lots of roster decisions that can be used to judge the job done by the man known around the NHL simply as Jarmo. Let’s look at the Top 5 trades done under his watchful eye. These trades are going to be judged on a simple scale of both WOW factor as well as how much impact the trade had on the ice.