Blue Jackets Beat: Fans, Falcons & Davidson
As the off-season unfortunately lingers far longer than anyone hoped, we’ll be keeping tabs on the developments in Columbus, as well as some of the overall issues affecting the club…
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Blue Jackets: Traces of Hope Amid the Ashes
With Commissioner Gary Bettman and NHLPA Director Donald Fehr apparently intent on reviving The Cold War via a strategy of mutual assured destruction , it is exquisitely difficult to find…
Lifting The Shroud In Columbus — The Prologue
If you dig into your copy of Websters, or perhaps the Oxford English Dictionary, you’ll find that shroud is defined specifically as a cloth or garment used to wrap a…
Missing The Point — Shootout Style
For teams like the Columbus Blue Jackets, struggling to stay alive in the playoff race, focus tends to turn to that one thing — that single, identifiable statistic — that…
An Ice Mountain To Climb
Despite the hanging of black crepe by the gloomier elements of the Columbus Blue Jackets fan base, the team is not out of playoff contention, despite garnering just 1 of…
Book Review– Jacques Plante: The Man Who Changed The Face Of Hockey
Goaltenders tend to make fascinating subjects for biographical treatment. Whether autobiographical (as in Ken Dryden’s masterful work in The Game) or penned by others, there is something compelling about the…
Old, New & Missing Pieces . . .A Puzzle for Howson & Columbus
As the Columbus Blue Jackets enter the last 40% of the season, they teeter on the edge of viability in the playoff race. It has been a season that has…
Book Review: Eddie Shore and That Old Time Hockey
To many, particularly those outside the “Original Six” metropolitan areas, references to Eddie Shore are met with either quizzical looks or vague references to Slap Shot, where Reggie Dunlop urges his…
Time to Realign, Reschedule, Recalculate . . .Are you listening, Gary?
With the economy hitting season ticket sales, the continuing saga of the Phoenix Coyotes, and ongoing debate about the CBA, competitive markets, revenue opportunities, etc. I believe it is time…
The State of The Union Blue & Coach Arniel’s View
We have reached the 20 game mark of the 2010-11 season, so time for our first review of Columbus Blue Jackets hockey for the season. Confounding virtually all of the…
Blue Jackets Just Keep Winning
Weirdness prevailed before and during the Blue Jackets visit to the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island to take on the New York Islanders. Coming in with a four-game winning streak, and facing…
New 3rd Jersey for Columbus?
The Columbus Blue Jackets will be unveiling their new 3rd jersey on Wednesday, and the team will debut the new sweater on the ice on Friday agains Detroit. The displayed…