Columbus Blue Jackets

Rick Nash scored the Columbus Blue Jackets' third goal in a 2:41 span of the third period to beat Carolina 3-2 Saturday night, the Hurricanes' franchise-record 12th consecutive game without a win. Nikita Filatov and Jared Boll also scored goals for the Blue Jackets, who have picked up poi...

Coming off the first playoff appearance in franchise history and vying for the Central Division lead, the Columbus Blue Jackets can certainly be considered a successful franchise. Business, however, doesn't appear as good as it seems. In their first home game following a report that cal...

The Atlanta Thrashers seem to play every shift at home as though they are down a goal in the final minute of the game.

Columbus may have trouble holding on to the NHL's Blue Jackets because the club has been losing $12 million a year in central Ohio, according to a report released Thursday by a business group. The report commissioned by the Columbus Chamber offers a variety of options for strengthening th...

By Andrew Tomlinson - OFB Intern This is every Capitals’ fan worst nightmare: Ovi out with an injury. The good news: his time on the sideline doesn’t appear likely to be protracted — a forecast of two weeks arrived from head coach Bruce Boudreau on Tuesday. Still, beginning tonight in New Jersey, the Caps face something th...

By pennskinsfan Blue Jackets responded by scoring twice in the second period.  The first Blue Jackets goal came from Rick Nash, his 9th of the year.  The second goal came from RJ Umberger to give Columbus a 2-1 lead at the end of the second period.  Washington out shot Columbus 11-8.

Pittsburgh scored twice in the final 3 minutes of regulation to tie it and Sidney Crosby had the only goal in the shootout to lead the Penguins to a 4-3 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Friday night. Brent Johnson stopped 29 shots before the shootout, then stymied Antoine Vermette,...

The big pads circled the puck and Steve Mason thought he had it corraled. Then it started tumbling away, wobbling inches over the goal line. Pittsburgh scored twice in the final 3 minutes of regulation to tie it and Sidney Crosby's shot barely crossed the line in the shootout to lift the Pengu...

The Blue Jackets took a 1-0 lead on Wednesday vs. Phoenix, the first time in seven games Columbus has scored first. They were 3-3-0 in those six games. --The penalty kill has been abysmal, but the Blue Jackets' power play is pretty good. It has a goal in six of the last seven games and is ranked amon...

After a dominating start to the season, the Blue Jackets' penalty kill has imploded -- and it's taking the entire team down with it. Get this: The Blue Jackets have killed only 9 of 19 penalties (47.4 percent) in the last four games, allowing 10 of the 22 goals the club has allowed. It's no surpri...

The Columbus Blue Jackets weren't nearly as upset about losing to Los Angeles as they were about a check the Kings' Rob Scuderi put on Jason Chimera in the first period with his team holding a two-goal lead. About 9 minutes into Los Angeles' 6-2 victory on Sunday night, Scuderi sent Chimera s...

Everything lined up perfectly for Dustin Penner and the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night. Penner scored his sixth and seventh goals of the season and added three assists in the Oilers' 6-4 comeback victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets. "I was trying to set small goals first, I wasn't exp...

Jarome Iginla scored once and added two assists to lead the Calgary Flames to a 6-3 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday night. It was the first multipoint game of the season for the struggling Flames captain, who had only two goals and two assists through the first eight games. I...

Raffi Torres broke a tie with a power-play goal late in the second period and Rick Nash added a short-handed goal on Saturday night to lead the Columbus Blue Jackets to their third win in a row, a 4-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings. Jason Chimera had a goal and Jake Voracek added an empty-ne...

By Jim Gintonio The Coyotes open the home portion of their season Saturday night against the Columbus Blue Jackets with a lot on their plates.

The Phoenix Coyotes have sold out their 2009-10 home opener Saturday against the Columbus Blue Jackets.

By Michael(noreply@blogger.com) I know John Michaels -- that is his name, right? -- is new to the whole Blue Jackets Live gig, but the interview with Klesla was awkward. If I listened right, he only seemed to ask one whole question. Now given, Klesla may have been in a rush to get back to the locker room, but I don't know. Dude seems...

COLUMBUS, OHIO - The Columbus Blue Jackets have signed defenseman Rostislav Klesla to a four year contract extension that will keep the club's first ever Entry Draft pick with the organization through the 2013 14 season, General Manager Scott Howson an...

Ryan Jones scored twice and Dan Ellis stopped 36 shots for the Nashville Predators in a 4-2 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets in the preseason finale for both teams Sunday. Jones opened the scoring at 3:18 of the first period and completed it with a power-play goal at 1:26 of the third, r...

ANALYZING THE GOALIES: What the Blue Jackets did to Steve Mason last season was, in the words of GM Scott Howson, "probably unfair." In the throes of a playoff push, the Jackets had no choice but to run Mason into the ground. As a 19-year-old, he started 60 of the final 66 games. This year, the pos...

Nikita Filatov and Antoine Vermette scored in the shootout to lift the Columbus Blue Jackets to a 6-5 victory over the Boston Bruins on Tuesday night. Filatov, shooting second in the shootout, gave the Blue Jackets a 2-1 lead with a backhander. Antoine Vermette also scored for Columbus in t...

COLUMBUS, OHIO - The Columbus Blue Jackets have signed right wing Derek Dorsett to a two year contract extension which begins in 2010 11 and continues through the 2011 12 season, club General Manager Scott Howson announced today. Dorsett, 22, talli...

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A tower of videotapes sit by the television, past games awaiting further review by the Columbus Blue Jackets coach. Hitchcock is so focused on his team that he's become oblivious to all aspects of normal life. "The one thing you find out at this time ... Kansas City Star - Columbus Dispatch

 OH TORONTO -- From an 11th-floor office overlooking the Air Canada Centre, NHL executive Colin Campbell has the power to look directly into a man's goal. If any Blue Jackets player has kicked or high-sticked a puck into a net within the past five seasons, ...

National Post  United States - Former Blue Jackets GM Doug MacLean, who drafted Fritsche, got a number of calls from GM’s on Tuesday when Fritsche was on waivers. ... Forsberg won't be back in NHL this season Pittsburgh Tribune-Review all 168 news articles

By Greg Wyshynski • Aaron Portzline of the Columbus Dispatch reports that the Columbus Blue Jackets are going to aggressively enter the trade market for a center and offers plenty of red meat: Antoine Vermette, Doug Weight, and Jordan Staal, whom he writes is miserable playing for Therrien. [Dispatch]

By Greg Wyshynski • Aaron Portzline of the Columbus Dispatch reports that the Columbus Blue Jackets are going to aggressively enter the trade market for a center and offers plenty of red meat: Antoine Vermette, Doug Weight, and Jordan Staal, whom he writes is miserable playing for Therrien. [Dispatch]

By Matt Romig Nash converted a penalty shot for his 17th goal of the season and picked up the primary assist on three Columbus tallies as the Blue Jackets, who went through December scoring three or fewer goals in 13 of 14 games, erupted for six goals in a 6-1 victory over Colorado. Rookie Steve Mason saw hi...

By Matt Romig Nash converted a penalty shot for his 17th goal of the season and picked up the primary assist on three Columbus tallies as the Blue Jackets, who went through December scoring three or fewer goals in 13 of 14 games, erupted for six goals in a 6-1 victory over Colorado. Rookie Steve Mason saw hi...

By rss@youtube.com (BlueJackets2009) Manny Malhotra scores the game winning goal 13 seconds into OT against the Dallas Stars December 18th, 2008. Both on ice officials called it a goal. It was sent to the War Room in Toronto for a review. Toronto claims all 8 people in the room unanimously agreed it was a "distinct kicking motion." I...

By Greg Wyshynski Meanwhile, in Columbus, Ken Hitchcock was angry. Like, "you ate the last cookie and didn't throw away the box?" angry. The Blue Jackets were in OT against the Dallas Stars in a 5-5 tie when Manny Malhotra appeared to end the game 13 seconds into the extra session (head to the 4:45 mark of the vid...

By Greg Wyshynski Meanwhile, in Columbus, Ken Hitchcock was angry. Like, "you ate the last cookie and didn't throw away the box?" angry. The Blue Jackets were in OT against the Dallas Stars in a 5-5 tie when Manny Malhotra appeared to end the game 13 seconds into the extra session (head to the 4:45 mark of the vid...

By Greg Wyshynski • Is the Florida Panthers' success this season enough to keep Jay Bouwmeester from leaving as a free agent? [ESPN] • The Colorado Avalanche are giving Andrew Raycroft a start against the Tampa Bay Lightning, which has some fans worried that the team is teetering on the brink of yet another...

By Greg Wyshynski But the plan is also really, really, really disturbing and symbolic of the economic poop-storm that's swirling around professional sports. Forget that these games are on the weekend, which should usually sell themselves; we're talking about having to encourage fans to buy tickets to s...

In a game that had four ties and 14 lead changes, including eight trades of the lead in the final 4:37, Perrysburg's Jake Smith had the last answer in the Yellow Jackets' 53-52 win. Smith added eight points and 10 boards for the Jackets, who shared the Northern Lakes League title last season a...

By Greg Checki The Columbus Blue Jackets recently welcomed Freddy Modin back to the locker room, as he is returning from yet another injury. He's expected to spend time playing on the first line with Rick Nash, but for how long? He played fewer than 30 games in 2007-2008 and has had injury problems for year...

The Columbus Dispatch reports that with the Blue Jackets (3-6-0) last in the Western Conference (tied with 3-4-0 Coyotes, who have two games in hand) and LW Nash scoreless in three games, coach Ken Hitchcock made a stunning line-up change by trotting out a first line that included Nash be...

By Truth Serum It is probably fair to say that a lot of PSL holders, both current and former, are tired of the team and not enthusiastic as they used to be.  I am an early member of the blame Doug MacLean club and have not joined the blame Scott Howson club yet, although their membership is growing.  I think MacL...

By Greg Wyshynski Preview: Los Angeles Kings at St. Louis Blues (8:30 p.m. EDT; TV: FSW, FSMW). Good to see that the Kings still get top billing over Sarah Palin. Oh, and the Blues fans seem a tad conflicted on this whole Palin puck drop thing. This one is sort of clever.

By Greg Wyshynski • The Columbus Blue Jackets had a high season-ticket renewal rate, but are concerned about sales and corporate backing in light of the economic downturn. Here's a wacky idea: Make the damn playoffs. [Dispatch] • Unlike ESPN viewers for the last decade, Barry Melrose doesn't have a mute but...

By noreply@blogger.com (LTL) If Kristian Huselius plays like he did in the pre-season then the Jackets are going to be in real good shape offensively. His puck skills are world class as are his ability to use his teammates. * Rick Nash was Rick Nash. ...

By Greg Wyshynski Brian Campbell (Chicago Blackhawks, D, Round 3/Pick 47) Marek Zidlicky (Minnesota Wild, D, Round 9/Pick 155) Derek Morris (Phoenix Coyotes,  D, Round 16/Pick 278) Rostislav Klesla (Columbus Blue Jackets, D, Round 18/Pick 314) Goalies

By noreply@blogger.com (PJ Swenson) San Jose Mercury News beat writer David Pollak quoted an anonymous NHL source yesterday suggesting the possibility of a Patrick Marleau trade to Columbus for 23 year old Blue Jackets right wing Nikolai Zherdev. The source, not connected with either team, suggested Marleau and an unspec...

Jackets down Indians in final home contest  TX - Taylor said the coaches had several tiebreaker options. “The way our district is set up, if we win Friday night, you could either flip or play again on ... Lady Jackets no-hit, eliminated from playoff contention Cleburne Times-Review

By John Arvai Best case scenario the kid shines, helps our offense and gets some much needed NHL experience and will help management determine where he fits next year. Worst case he gets sent back down and continues to develop at the AHL level ...

By noreply@blogger.com (Michael) Now, whether or not this rule applies to other teams in the NHL doesn't matter. What does matter is that seven games in to the season, this rule -- as well as last night's "shutout = win" rule -- is valid as it pertains to the Columbus Blue Jackets.

Blue Jackets season in review  OH - The Blue Jackets' owners got it right when they hired Ken Hitchcock as coach Nov. 23. ... Along the way, goaltender Fredrik Norrena, forwards Dan Fritsche ... Blue Jackets Look To Next Year, Again Ohio News Now

By Michael Team: Columbus Blue Jackets At home: 15-15-4 Last 10: 5-3-2 End of the Bench Rookie holds his own with video-game stars - Columbus Dispatch (Gordon) Team: Dallas Stars Record: 38-23-5 Last 10: 4-3-3 Andrew's Dallas Stars' Page Dallas Stars - Dallas Morning News (reg. required)

Nashville Predators past the Columbus Blue Jackets, 3-1, at Nationwide Arena. Scott Nichol also scored for the Predators, who topped the Blue Jackets for the ... Preds beat Jackets for third time in a week Berkshire Eagle Columbus falls 3-1 to Nashville Tucson Citizen Hockey Today SI.com