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A Team In Flux
Columbus, OH – By Rick Gethin With a season winding down and major changes anticipated, there are many players who are hoping they’ve made the right impression to warrant...
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Blue Jackets Rally For The Win
Columbus, OH By Rick Gethin Kevin Schroeder, aka “Dancing Kevin”, made an appearance in Nationwide Arena and did his thing in front of 16,408 fans. With “Melt The Avs”...
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Blue Jackets Miss The Mark, Fall To Chicago
Columbus, OH – “Sloppy. Both teams were sloppy. They were sloppy, too. We had chances but we just gave them too many good prime scoring chances,” said RJ Umberger....
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Blue Jackets Making A Statement
Columbus, OH As much as Columbus Blue Jackets head coach Scott Arniel doesn’t want to publicly admit it, the 8-1 drubbing that Columbus handed the St. Louis Blues made...
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A Scary Step Back . . .
In his post-game press conference, Columbus Coach Scott Arniel noted that, of the six games played thus far, four were “pretty good” and two were “rock bottom ugly.” This was...
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Bruised And Battered, Blue Jackets Clip The Ducks
By Rick Gethin In front of a hometown crowd of only 9,802 the Columbus Blue Jackets clipped the Anaheim Ducks wings by a score of 3-1. It was a...
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Blue Jackets Notes From The Rink
By Rick Gethin The Columbus Blue Jackets were back on the ice after back to back games over the weekend. The coaching staff, led by head coach Scott Arniel,...
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Armageddon Canceled — Jackets Top Wild
In the wake of a miserable effort in Friday night’s home opener for Columbus, the local scribes were foreseeing the end of the world, or at least the hockey equivalent of Armageddon. After...
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Blue Jackets Lay An Egg
By Rick Gethin In front of a home opening sellout crowd of 18,305 people, the Columbus Blue Jackets were beyond lackluster. Head Coach Scott Arniel summed it up nicely,...
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Are the Blue Jackets Problems Systemic?
By Rick Gethin “We’re not a team that knows how to play with the lead, yet” ~ Columbus captain Rick Nash Back at home after the...
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When “Energy” guys become a Scoring Line
By Rick Gethin “We played one period today and got away with it” ~ Blue Jackets Coach Ken Hitchcock For 40 minutes Saturday night in Nationwide...