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Set to begin at 9AM EST tomorrow. Does a deal get done or will this be the first arbitration carried out in CBJ history?

Chris Clark.

He is not a true assistant GM and was only promoted to the position when Josh Flynn left for Buffalo. As a GM in Cleveland his job was to call around the ECHL and other semi professional leagues and find warm bodies to fill out the bottom of the AHL roster. The salaries he negotiated were 1/10th the scale of NHL ones and the talent he was acquiring was just happy to be getting an offer.

Now he's dealing with real deal NHL agents and big time talents and I think his skis are over his head and that is why we haven't seen a single forward step taken this offseason. The Blue Jackets have rarely if ever gone to arbitration and 5 months into his reign we have two promising young players headed there with the face of the franchise still unsigned near the end of July.

Don needs to find a real assistant who can hammer out numbers and get deals done. If he doesn't do that then it calls his judgement and competency into question.

Hoping this post ages like milk out in the sun and some signings roll through today.