Earlier this month, THW's Mike Coll…
Pittsburgh PenguinsThe Blue Jackets’ run at the playoffs yielded the finest stretch of play in the franchise history. Talented prospects, led by spark plugs Matt Calvert and Cam Atkinson, are finally blossoming for the long suffering organization. Despite tremendous progress in the second half of 2013 not all of the young Jackets are firing on all ...
As the NHL configured the tightly compressed schedule in the aftermath of the latest lockout incarnation, the pundits almost universally decreed that the Stanley Cup Final would pit the New York Rangers and Los Angeles Kings. While a smattering of votes for Chicago and Pittsburgh could be found, the consensus was so profound that an ...
Sunday was 68-degree March day in central Ohio – a weather phenomenon that divides the mind between the skate blade and the golf club, so a golf analogy seems appropriate to use as we contemplate the recent string of success, culminating with a weekend home-and-home sweep of the Detroit Red Wings. <pause for effect> . . .That’s ...
With the signing of Jarmo Kekalainen as the new GM, the Columbus Blue Jackets are ushering in a new era with a big bang! It is widely known that this franchise has experienced very little success in its dozen years of existence. Kekalainen is the third GM in franchise history without an interim tag and ...
Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and nuclear devices. Not in hockey games. That being said, the Blue Jackets played their eighth consecutive one-goal game Friday 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, thanks to a horrific, inexplicable “no-goal” call with 7:25 left in the second period. Trailing 2 -1, the Blue Jackets were on the power play, ...
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, and the Blue Jackets are primed to start their 12th season on the ice. The fact that the debut comes in Nashville — on what ...
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 landscape: The Resurrection O.K. – show of hands — how many of you predicted that Curtis McElhinney would be dominating the AHL in net this ...
While the Columbus Blue Jackets and the rest of the NHL continue to sit idle during the lockout, the Jackets’ American Hockey League affiliate Springfield Falcons sit at the top of the Eastern Conference standings after seven games with 11 points and a 5-1-1 record. Leading the way for the team’s strong start are some ...
As many readers on Twitter pointed it out to me — my original list of 20 NHL-Caliber AHLers to Keep an Eye on During the Lockout omitted a few important names of rising & soon-to-be NHL stars. When I compiled the original list I knew this would be an issue because I was only going ...
