Posts About "Seth Jones"
5 Takeaways From Maple Leafs Game 1 Loss to Blue Jackets
August 3rd, 2020 Toronto Maple Leafs hockey is officially back with Game 1 of their play-in series taking place in Toronto on Sunday night. While it’s the first meaningful hockey either team has played in months, both clubs seemed to be in midseason form with the Columbus Blue Jackets taking home a 2-0 victory to open up their 2020 playoffs. The...
Blue Jackets/Maple Leafs: 5 Specific Things to Watch For
August 2nd, 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 upper hand? Who will come out victorious in this best-of-five series? While I'm not going to predict a winner, I will share five specific things that...
Blue Jackets Eager to Get to Exhibition Game & Beyond
July 27th, 2020 The Columbus Blue Jackets are starting to settle into Toronto. The team arrived on Sunday into the bubble in advance of their first-round series against the Toronto Maple Leafs. But before we get to that series, the Blue Jackets will make final preparations. They have multiple practice days upcoming. They also have one of the last...
Power Play Is Key for Blue Jackets' Postseason Success
July 22nd, 2020 The Columbus Blue Jackets pulled off the impossible during the 2019 Stanley Cup Playoffs. They swept the Presidents' Trophy-winning Tampa Bay Lightning in the first round. The key to the upset was their power play, which struggled during the regular season with a 15.4 percent success rate. In the Lightning series, however, the power...
Ryan Johansen for Seth Jones: Still a Win-Win Trade
July 14th, 2020 Jerseys were flying off the shelves. The Nashville Predators thought they were finally getting that number one centerman they needed and the Columbus Blue Jackets landed a big gun on the back end. The one-for-one blockbuster trade that sent All-Star center Ryan Johansen to Nashville in exchange for highly-touted defenseman Seth...
Blue Jackets: The 5 Most Significant Injuries of 2019-20
June 27th, 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 the team was bogged down by injuries, some were more significant than others. This article will countdown the five most significant injuries of the 2019-20 season. The...
Blue Jackets Can Expect Reinforcements When NHL Season Resumes
May 22nd, 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 potential playoff team. After shocking the hockey world last spring with their four-game sweep of the Presidents' Trophy-winning, Tampa Bay Lightning, the Jackets were...
Filip Forsberg Trade Revisited
May 16th, 2020 From the eighth seed in the Western Conference to the Stanley Cup Final, the Nashville Predators provided hockey fans with a wild ride through the 2017 NHL Playoffs. At the center of that playoff run was Filip Forsberg. Forsberg is just one of general manager David Poile’s many great acquisitions over the years. Since arriving in...
Blue Jackets Q&A With Boone Jenner
April 15th, 2020 Welcome back to our 2020 Columbus Blue Jackets Q&A series. In this series, we are going to talk with different members of the Blue Jackets’ community about hockey, their jobs, how they’re handling things today and much more. Today in part six, Boone Jenner stops by and catches us up on a wide range of topics. We talk...
Resetting the Blue Jackets' Injured List
March 15th, 2020 What a crazy, insane season this has been for the Columbus Blue Jackets. It started with stars leaving. As such, the team got off to an awful start. Then add numerous, crushing injuries. And yet, the Blue Jackets currently sit in a wildcard spot on points thanks to several players stepping up at key times. And now, the entire...
Blue Jackets Need to Get Back to Basics
March 1st, 2020 Sometimes in life, they don't ask how. They ask how many. That's the way of life these days with the Columbus Blue Jackets. The how many in this case is how many points do they have in the standings. And is it enough to qualify for a spot in the Stanley Cup Playoffs? As of Sunday morning, the answers are 76 and amazingly yes....
Blue Jackets Facing Life Without Seth Jones
February 13th, 2020 The playoff race for the Columbus Blue Jackets was going to be a grind anyway. But I'm not sure they planned on something like this. Seth Jones, their all-world defenseman and best player, will be gone for 8-10 weeks. The Blue Jackets have played most of the season injured anyway so that's not new. But they haven't had to deal with...
The NHL's Top 5 Defenses
January 28th, 2020 Defense wins championships. It's a saying as old as hockey itself, but there is truth to this wisdom. A stout defense can both limit the opponent's scoring chances while placing additional pressure on them in the offensive zone. When a defense is playing near perfection, it also helps ease some of the burdens on both the goaltender and...
