Posts About "James Wisniewski"
Top 5 Winners of the NHL Trade Deadline
March 3rd, 2015 One of the more exciting and hectic times on the NHL schedule has passed as of Monday afternoon. The NHL trade deadline was at 3PM Eastern standard time Monday as a number of moves were made. Last night we took a look at the biggest losers of the mad deadline bonanza of trades. What about the winners? Well, here are five of...
Deadline Dealing: Meet Columbus's Acquisitions
March 2nd, 2015 Talk about a hectic Monday at the office. General manager Jarmo Kekӓlӓinen and company kept busy in the hours leading up to Monday's trade deadline. The club gave winger Cam Atkinson a three-year, $10.5 million extension while sending defenseman James Wisniewski and a 2015 third round pick to Anaheim and defenseman Jordon Leopold to...
How The Anaheim Ducks Won The Trade Deadline
March 2nd, 2015 There's a notion in the NHL that to get, you must give, and even sometimes give a lot more than what you're getting. This season's trade deadline saw the Anaheim Ducks get quite a bit, while giving insanely little. Only a week ago the Ducks had Rene Bourque's two goals as a Duck, William Karlsson, Ben Lovejoy, the shell of Dany...
Should Detroit Make a Push for James Wisniewski?
February 24th, 2015 Earlier this month, I wrote about the possibility of Marek Zidlicky being a trade target for the Detroit Red Wings. It’s no secret that the team has been on the hunt for an offensively inclined, right-handed defender for quite some time now. I also discussed Dion Phaneuf's availability, and if he and Detroit would be a good match. With...
An Untold Side To James Wisniewski Story?
February 24th, 2015 Reports have surfaced that the Columbus Blue Jackets have asked defenseman James Wisniewski to submit a list of 10 teams that he would not approve a trade to. Talk about news that came out of nowhere. It started this past Sunday night. The Blue Jackets played that night against the New York Rangers. About 2 hours before the...
THW’s Big List of Bust Candidates
September 2nd, 2014 Be sure to check out other instalments in our Big List Series THW’s Big List of Comeback Candidates THW’s Big List of Bust Candidates THW’s Big List of Breakout Candidates THW’s Big List of Rookie Sleeper Candidates To call Teemu Selanne a bust, in any reference, is an insult unfit for a future...
State of the Union Blue Part 2: Blue Jackets Defense
July 21st, 2014 State of the Union Blue Part 1: Goaltending State of the Union Blue Part 2: Defense State of the Union Blue Part 3: Forwards In the second of a three part series, we are going to look at the state of the Columbus Blue Jackets defense for the upcoming season. Think for a moment about the power of a...
The Next Captain For Columbus: 5 Concrete Choices
June 21st, 2014 For the second straight season, the Columbus Blue Jackets completed an entire season without a captain. That didn't stop the Jackets from turning the corner, boisterously arriving in relevancy. And although naming the next captain for Columbus isn't the top priority for a team looking to build off of the momentum they left on the...
Is James Wisniewski a Norris Contender?
March 3rd, 2014 Erik Karlsson, Duncan Keith, Drew Doughty, ... James Wisniewski? He seems out of place in a list like that, right? Purely by name-recognition he's not considered as a superstar defenseman. And the story of his start with the Blue Jackets doesn't help. Wisniewski was brought to Columbus as a key piece during the team's active summer...
Q & A with James Wisniewski of the Columbus Blue Jackets
December 31st, 2013 Hard to believe but it’s already been 13 months since the Hockey Writers last spoke with defenseman James Wisniewski of the Columbus Blue Jackets, when the Canton, Michigan-native was kind enough to do an interview with us during last season’s lockout. Meet The Wiz (November, 2012) With the Blue Jackets now in the Eastern...
A Blue Jackets New Years Resolution
December 29th, 2013 Christmas is over, and the NHL is entering the second half of the 2013-14 season. The time for making holiday "wishlists" is now over. For the teams ready to compete for a playoff berth, the time for "wishing" is gone and the time for resolutions is upon us. As with all people, the teams with the right amount of belief and determination...
How Hot is Todd Richards' Seat?
November 14th, 2013 The Columbus Blue Jackets have not been very good lately, after jumping out to a respectable, if unspectacular 5-5-0 record the Jackets have since dropped 6 of their last 7 including a disappointing 4-3 overtime loss to divisional foes Washington Tuesday evening. In those 7 games the formula has been fairly consistent: despite a...
The Week Ahead: New York Rangers
November 3rd, 2013 With the first month of the 2013-14 NHL season in the rearview, its time to take a look at what lies ahead for the New York Rangers in the first week of November. Things certainly appear to be status quo for the blueshirts as they are enjoying their first win streak of the season. http://youtu.be/NYS-WYnnsog Happy to see October...
