2020-21 Blue Jackets Preview & Bold Predictions Mark Scheig | January 14, 2021 Are you ready for this? At long last, the 2020-21 regular season gets underway Thursday night for the Columbus Blue Jackets in Nashville. They’ll play 56 games in the next…
Fantasy Forecaster: Breakout Players for the 2020-21 Fantasy Season Julian Mongillo | January 13, 2021 With the NHL’s return to action on the horizon, it is prime fantasy draft season. Fantasy managers should be working overtime to get caught up on all the offseasons moves…
Blue Jackets Hit Homerun With Bjorkstrand’s New Contract Mark Scheig | January 7, 2021 The Columbus Blue Jackets locked up a key piece of their future on Wednesday. The team and right-winger Oliver Bjorkstrand agreed to a five-year contract extension on Wednesday making him…
Columbus Blue Jackets’ Fantasy Sleepers for 2020-21 Darren Winkler | November 25, 2020 Here’s my secret, my key to winning your fantasy hockey pool, if you promise not to tell anyone. Like in the NHL, it’s not your high draft picks that matter…
Blue Jackets Inconsistent Power Play Finally Powering Up Mark Scheig | August 15, 2020 Baby steps. When it comes to the Columbus Blue Jackets power play, any sort of breakthrough seems like a major accomplishment. It’s wild inconsistency has been a sore spot amongst…
5 Blue Jackets Things To Watch For In Game 5 Mark Scheig | August 9, 2020 It all comes down to this. The Columbus Blue Jackets and Toronto Maple Leafs will play Game 5 of their Stanley Cup Qualifer series Sunday night. This marks the first…
Blue Jackets/Maple Leafs: 5 Specific Things to Watch For Mark Scheig | August 2, 2020 It’s finally here. Gameday. The Columbus Blue Jackets and Toronto Maple Leafs open their postseason Sunday night in Toronto in what should be an outstanding matchup. But who has the…
Blue Jackets Mentality Major Key to Maple Leafs Series Mark Scheig | July 29, 2020 Head coach John Tortorella has always been a big fan of the mental side of hockey. On Wednesday, Tortorella admitted that the Blue Jackets have started making preparations on their…
Blue Jackets: The 5 Most Significant Injuries of 2019-20 Cody Chalfan | June 27, 2020 It was a tough season of injuries for the Columbus Blue Jackets. They had a league-leading 420 man-games lost and had up to 11 players missing from their roster. While…
Blue Jackets: Jarmo Kekalainen’s 3rd-Round Picks Ranked Cameron Thompson | May 28, 2020 Ever since Columbus Blue Jackets general manager Jarmo Kekalainen was named Scott Howson’s successor on Feb. 13, 2013, the franchise’s fortunes have dramatically changed and they have slowly earned respect…
Blue Jackets Can Expect Reinforcements When NHL Season Resumes Domenic Lunardo | May 22, 2020 When the 2019-20 season kicked off in October, many across the NHL landscape didn’t think much of the Columbus Blue Jackets. In fact, some experts wrote them off as a…
Blue Jackets’ Jarmo Kekalainen Finding Success Later in Drafts Dave Hall | March 30, 2020 On Feb. 13, 2013, the Columbus Blue Jackets announced Jarmo Kekalainen as their third general manager in franchise history. Since taking over the role, he and his drafting team have…