Posts About "Jarmo Kekalainen"
Blue Jackets Must Get Back to Business at Hand
January 27th, 2019 The fun and games of the All-Star Game are over. As great as it was to see both Seth Jones and Cam Atkinson shine in San Jose, it's time for them and the rest of the Columbus Blue Jackets to get back to business. They have to get back to business despite what's going on off the ice and outside their locker room. They have no choice...
Emptying the Blue Jackets' First Half Notebook
January 20th, 2019 We are almost to decision February. The Columbus Blue Jackets finished off game 48 Saturday night in Minnesota hoping to ride the momentum of a win going into their long 10-day break. Instead, their offense went colder than a Minnesota winter and they left important points on the table. Instead of possibly leading the...
Culture Check: Columbus Blue Jackets Stronger Than Ever
January 12th, 2019 In perhaps their toughest and most important stretch of the season, the Columbus Blue Jackets made national news with an announcement about one of their best players. Goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky was sent home by the team for an incident. According to GM Jarmo Kekalainen, "There are certain expectations and values that we have...
Pierre-Luc Dubois Proving Many Experts Wrong
December 28th, 2018 Ah yes, the Auston Matthews, Patrik Laine draft. Who could forget what happened after their names were called first and second in 2016? I never will. The Columbus Blue Jackets won one of the lottery draws in that offseason. Their reward was picking third overall. They won the right to select "can't miss" Finnish prospect Jesse...
Columbus Blue Jackets: Contender or Pretender?
December 9th, 2018 The Columbus Blue Jackets have had many inconsistent moments this season. But none were quite like what we saw Saturday night at Nationwide Arena. In front of a sold-out crowd with first place on the line, the Blue Jackets played perhaps their worst game of the season as they were dominated in all phases by the Washington...
3 Blue Jackets' Takeaways From Free Agency Day
July 1st, 2018 The Columbus Blue Jackets were expected to be relatively quiet as free agency frenzy began around the NHL. Thus far, that has held true to form. They did sign three players Sunday, including defenseman Tommy Cross, Adam Clendening and Dillon Simpson. (Update: Per TSN's Darren Dreger, the Blue Jackets have signed Riley Nash to a...
