Blue Jackets President Opens Up About Ongoing Trade Chatter

The Columbus Blue Jackets have started the season 4-11-4 and it's starting to go from bad to worse. Patrik Laine was recently a healthy scratch, Johnny Gaudreau is now vastly overpaid and remember when they hired Mike Babcock?

You'd think management would want to make changes to try and turn things around, but according to team president John Davidson, don't expect to see anything drastic out of Columbus just yet.

Davidson met with The Athletic's Aaron Portzline and had this to say about the team's direction heading:

No rash moves right now. We just keep riding this, keep pushing. No white flags. No sense of 'Woe is me.' 'Woe is me' does not work. It's an emotional game, a hard game. But we need the improvements we're seeing with some of our younger players - Alexandre Texier, Kirill Marchenko, Adam Fantilli, these guys - to continue, and we need our best players to start playing like they're capable of playing. That's what we need, and that's what we're waiting to see. We don't have too many of our best players playing at the top of their games, and that's where the problem lies. It's pretty simple. Your best players have to be your best players. If they aren't, it's hard.

The Blue Jackets are 1-7-2 in their past 10 games and needless to say need more out of the likes of Gaudreau and Laine if they have any chance in hell to turn things around in the foreseeable future. Or at all, for that matter.