Bad news on the injury front for the Columbus Blue Jackets, as budding star defenseman Seth Jones will be sitting for the first 4-to-6 weeks of the season with an MCL sprain in his knee. Jones left Tuesday night's game against the Sabres with a lower-body injury, not to return and upon further medical evaluation, it was determined that he suffered a 2nd degree sprain.There are certainly some high expectations for Jones in the coming season, especially coming off of a 57-point season in 2018, things were only supposed to improve for him moving forward. Unfortunately, some of those projections will now have to be tempered, due to the injury, but now you can weigh the benefits of taking him early, missing those weeks, instead of waiting to see if you can possibly get him at one of the Waiver Drafts.
The Jackets' blueline has had its fair share of struggles in this preseason, as they had already lost Ryan Murray to injury a week ago and they still haven't seen Zach Werenski in game action (yet!), so there could be some young representation back there to start the year, trying to hold things down until the walking wounded return.
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