Posts About "Jarkko Ruutu"
Canucks' Top Fourth-Line Heroes: #5-#1
August 25th, 2017 The NHL game is evolving. Gone are your typical fourth-line bruisers, and many teams promote speed and skill throughout all four lines. Adding more speed and skill improves the pace of the game, but hockey is losing some of those heart-and-soul players of old. Whether you like fighting or not or whether you think it belongs in the...
Blue Jackets D-Corps Increases Value
April 12th, 2016 It was in the year 2000 when the Columbus Blue Jackets started making a reputation for themselves. A reputation of always trying and never giving up. It’s admirable, it’s inspiring and it’s totally unlike their Canadian counterparts in Toronto. That’s the biggest difference between the two teams, in case you’re...
Ray Shero's Pittsburgh Penguins: Ready for Another Stanley Cup Run?
July 28th, 2012 When Ray Shero first arrived on the scene from the Nashville Predators, he brought a hockey mindset of toughness and grit to the Pittsburgh Penguins. He signed players who brought their hard hat and lunch pail to the rink on a nightly basis. In Shero's 1st year as general manager of the Penguins, he signed Jarkko Ruutu and Mark...
From Abdelkader to Zuccarello - 21 October 2011
October 21st, 2011 Capitals move onto a new franchise best of being 6-0 to start the season. Only Washington and the Detroit Red Wings remain undefeated (if Detroit wins tonight against the Columbus Blue Jackets Saturday‘s game against the Red Wings will be an even bigger game for the Capitals).
Ottawa Senators Fall to 30th Overall in the NHL Standings
March 6th, 2011 Ottawa Senators fans woke up in unfamiliar territory this morning - last place in the NHL standings. With the Edmonton Oilers 5-1 victory over the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday evening, the Senators and their 53 points are officially in the hunt for the first overall selection in this June’s draft. It is somewhat ironic that one...
Ruutu and Elliott Traded as Bryan Murray Continues to Make Changes
February 18th, 2011 The roster changes in Ottawa continued, as GM Bryan Murray traded Jarkko Ruutu to the Anaheim Ducks and goaltender Brian Elliott is on his way to Colorado.
