Blue Jackets Beat: Justice Unserved
Hockey afficionados around the league are waking up this morning, reviewing the scores from Sunday’s action, and nodding their collectively heads knowlingly as they peruse the “Edmonton 3 Columbus 1”…
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Blue Jackets Beat: Fitting the Pieces
On the heels of two losses — the first a “we woke up too late” 3 -2 road loss to the Minnesota Wild, and the second a listless 4-1 home…
Blue Jackets Beat : Good Things Happen . . .
. . . when you put the puck on the net. That’s the completion of the the sentence above, and a lesson that the Blue Jackets need to have drilled…
Blue Jackets Beat: A Thief in the Night
The Columbus Blue Jackets earned a hard-fought 3 – 3 tie with the Chicago Blackhawks last night at Nationwide Arena. They earned it . . .but did not receive it,…
Blue Jackets Beat: Have Gun . . . Need Ammo
The club returns home tonight after a forgettable early season road trip to Phoenix and Colorado — twin four-goal losses, in which the Blue Jackets managed but a single tally.…
Blue Jackets Beat: One Brick At A Time . . .
I resisted the significant temptation to post an exalted, praisworthy piece after the Blue Jackets’ opening win at Nashville. I wanted to see the club in person, up close —…
Blue Jackets Beat: Promise — Not Predictions
January 19th — the beginning of the 2013 NHL Season finally arrives. The Los Angeles Kings have just hoisted their Stanley Cup Championship banner, prior to engaging the Chicago Blackhawks,…
Blue Jackets Beat: On The Ice, At Last
As this installment is written, the Blue Jackets’ training camp is thirty minutes old, with just 25 guys vying for 23 slots — a process that must be culminated in just six days.
Blue Jackets Beat: A New Era Begins!
While most were sleeping — and even I succumbed to the Sandman in the wee hours while the talks were ongoing — the NHL and NHLPA reached a tentative agreement…
Blue Jackets Beat: Resurrection, Domination, Direction & Drivel
Amid resurgent hope that the NHL and NHLPA are edging closer to an agreement, there are plenty of tidings to report on the Blue Jackets front, so let’s survey the…
Floored By The Numbers — But Missing the Point
While the protagonists in the CBA docu-drama have taken an extended sabbatical from direct confrontation, their understudies — Steve Fehr and Bill Daly — have been holding back-channel discussions that…
Blue Jackets Beat: Davidson On Board, Fehr & Bettman Blustering
As has been rumored for awhile, and discussed at greater length here and here, the Blue Jackets have now confirmed that John Davidson has been hired to assume the post of…