Posts About "Boone Jenner"
Blue Jackets Are Business as Usual With Game 2 Preparations
August 13th, 2020 On to the next one. That might sound boring to you. But for the Columbus Blue Jackets, moving on to the next one after a loss is business as usual. Considering what they are moving on from, that seems very hard to do. Not for this team though. They'll be...
Blue Jackets Looking For Veteran Impact
July 31st, 2020 With the exhibition games starting to wrap up, the NHL is now just days away from putting its 24-team playoff format into its next stage with the play-in qualifiers giving each of the 16 teams a chance in a five-game series to grab a spot in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. In a perfect world, there would be more exhibition games and...
Blue Jackets' Cam Atkinson Knows His Time Is Now
July 28th, 2020 Cam Atkinson knows he has a lot more in him. This season wasn't his best by any standards. Coming off of six straight 20-goal seasons, Atkinson played in just 44 games in 2019-20 scoring just 12 goals and 26 points while battling through injuries like most of his teammates. Atkinson hasn't played in a game since he suffered an...
Blue Jackets Q&A With Boone Jenner
April 15th, 2020 Welcome back to our 2020 Columbus Blue Jackets Q&A series. In this series, we are going to talk with different members of the Blue Jackets’ community about hockey, their jobs, how they’re handling things today and much more. Today in part six, Boone Jenner stops by and catches us up on a wide range of topics. We talk...
Laughton an Interesting Problem for Flyers
March 14th, 2020 Since being drafted 20th overall in the 2012 NHL Draft, Scott Laughton has been a difficult player to project. Early comparisons were made to former Philadelphia Flyers captain Mike Richards, a physical, two-way center with decent skating ability. Those descriptors fit Laughton’s game but his role on the current playoff-bound Flyers...
Blue Jackets' Liam Foudy Belongs in NHL
February 14th, 2020 Liam Foudy has had a week he will never forget. It started with a phone call while laying in bed. It continues with the London Knights with three games in four nights Friday, Saturday and Monday including a showdown with OHL leading Ottawa. In the middle, Foudy showed us he belongs in the NHL. He did not look out of...
What Blue Jackets Must Prioritize to Make Playoffs
January 6th, 2020 In part one of our Blue Jackets at halfway series, we reviewed the season to date to see how they came back to the playoff race when things didn't look good. We now turn our attention to the rest of this season and what must happen for the Blue Jackets to make the playoffs. As great as the point streak has been, there have to be...
Blue Jackets' Upcoming Week Will Define Season
December 15th, 2019 What a weird week it has been for the Columbus Blue Jackets. They opened their week by handing the Washington Capitals just their fifth regulation loss of the season. Things were looking up, right? But then in Pittsburgh, the Blue Jackets turned in just a dreadful performance in a 1-0 overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins. They...
Blue Jackets Must Find Finish, Fast
October 21st, 2019 All things considered, the start of the season for the Columbus Blue Jackets has been pretty good. That is expect for one major thing. The Blue Jackets cannot finish their chances. This has resulted in losses in five of their first eight games. Their last two games in particular against the Blackhawks and Islanders were painful....
3 Takeaways From Blue Jackets' Media Day
September 11th, 2019 Training camp is just around the corner for the Columbus Blue Jackets. Players report for physicals and the dreaded John Tortorella "two-mile" run on Thursday with the first on-ice sessions starting Friday. But on Wednesday before camp begins, the Blue Jackets held their annual media day at Nationwide Arena. Tortorella along with GM...
Blue Jackets Share Their Weirdest Autograph Requests
February 9th, 2019 Let's face it. Fans love getting an autograph of their favorite player or players on their team. It's commonplace everywhere you look. Whether it's at a season ticket holder event or randomly on the street if you're lucky enough to run into someone, fans are always looking for an opportunity. When they get their opportunity, it's...
Blue Jackets Bottom Nine Finally Rise to Occasion
February 8th, 2019 The Columbus Blue Jackets waited all season for this moment. The moment finally came Thursday night in Glendale when the team needed it the most. Lukas Sedlak opened the scoring early and played perhaps his strongest game of the season in helping the Blue Jackets to a 4-2 win against the Arizona Coyotes. You could tell right from his...
Blue Jackets Killing It on the Penalty Kill
February 6th, 2019 One. That is the number of power play goals allowed by the Columbus Blue Jackets since the start of calendar year 2019. Remember the days when they were among the worst in this statistic in the NHL? Yeah, I don't remember either. What a dramatic turn around this is for a team that struggled mightily with both special teams units....
