QMJHL Season Preview – Maritimes Division Mark Bowie | September 21, 2016 The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League season is right around the corner as summer draws to a close and NHL rookie camps are underway. Junior-aged players will soon begin to be…
Blue Jackets Thinking Trifecta In Traverse City Mark Scheig | September 16, 2016 The Columbus Blue Jackets come into this year’s Prospects Tournament with one thing on their mind. That one thing is to win the tournament, again. A Singular Focus If they…
Metropolitan Division: Team-By-Team Top Prospects Shane Sander | September 8, 2016 Continuing our top prospects series we focus on the Metropolitan Division. The 2016-17 NHL season is a month away and teams are getting their training camp rosters ready with a…
Columbus Calder Considerations Mark Scheig | September 5, 2016 When you start thinking of potential Calder Trophy candidates in the NHL, you think of the obvious names like Auston Matthews, Patrik Laine and Dylan Strome. Each has the potential…
Blue Jackets Pressure Points: Top-Line Center Mark Scheig | August 14, 2016 We continue our summer series, titled Blue Jackets Pressure Points, on the Columbus Blue Jackets. We ask hard questions about the team and attempt to answer them as it relates to…
Selling The Season To Blue Jackets Fans Mark Scheig | August 3, 2016 The Blue Jacket fan is truly one-of-a-kind. Basically for their entire team existence (sans two brief playoff appearances), the Columbus Blue Jackets have suffered through a lot of hard times.…
Family Ties: 2016 NHL Draft Edition (Part I) Andrew Forbes | July 11, 2016 We hear the phrases almost every year at the NHL Draft – one player taken has some kind of tie to the NHL already. If it wasn’t a father, it’s…
Blue Jackets Week In Review Mark Scheig | July 3, 2016 What a memorable week this has been for the Columbus Blue Jackets. In the span of just seven days, the Blue Jackets participated in the NHL Draft, held their prospects’…
Blue Jackets Sign Pierre-Luc Dubois to ELC Dustin L. Nelson | June 29, 2016 The Columbus Blue Jackets have signed the third overall draft pick at the 2016 NHL draft, Pierre-Luc Dubois, to a three-year, entry-level contract, according to TNS’s Darren Dreger. The signing…
Blue Jackets Baffling Experts Not Biggest Takeaway Mark Scheig | June 27, 2016 “Columbus Blue Jackets are proud to select from Cape Breton…” Wait. What? Friday night in Buffalo was one for the ages. As expected, the Toronto Maple Leafs made Auston Matthews…
The Best Player Available Marcy Di Michele | June 25, 2016 The Edmonton Oilers didn’t have the first overall pick. In fact, they lost the lottery by slipping to the number four spot. But thanks to a curious decision by the…
Oilers Get Their Man in Jesse Puljujarvi Rob Soria | June 25, 2016 There is no question that the Edmonton Oilers were the big losers at this year’s NHL Draft Lottery. The hope going in was to either win the lottery outright or…