As expected, after The Dispatch broke the news over the weekend, the Blue Jackets officially announced Tuesday a new affiliation with the Gwinnett Gladiators of East Coast Hockey League. The Gladiators will become the third different ECHL affiliate in three seasons for the Blue Jackets and the AHL’s Syracuse Crunch. The Blue Jackets were affiliated [...]
August 25th, 2009 | Bart Logan | 0 comments | ContinuedFeatured
FiretheCannon Podcast has been moved to THURSDAY at 7PM
The Fire the Cannon Podcast has been moved to THURSDAY at 7PM. Eric and I will continue to preview the Central Division with this week’s focus on the Chicago Blackhawks. The Blackhawks have had a very eventful off-season and we’ll be sure to hit on a wide array of topics related to the CBJ. Join [...]
August 25th, 2009 | Bart Logan | 0 comments | Continued
Thirty-Nine Days, and Counting
It’s been four long months since we last watched our beloved Blue Jackets suit up and take the ice, and while we’ve been able to witness our Ohio baseball teams stumble to the finish line, it just cannot compare to the thrills of hockey. So far, the off-season has been brutal. Other than a couple [...]
August 25th, 2009 | Rob Ogden | 1 comment | Continued
Jackets, Indians Team Up
In an effort to reach a larger fan base, The Columbus Blue Jackets have teamed up with the Cleveland Indians, the Jackets announced via the website on Tuesday. The Ohio based franchises unveiled a plan in which they would share advertising and promote special ticket offers at each team’s events. The deal makes sense with [...]
August 20th, 2009 | Rob Ogden | 0 comments | Continued
St. Louis Anything But Blue
This week on the “Fire The Cannon” podcast, we continue with our Central Division review with the St. Louis Blues. The Blues had an impressive close to the season last year as they pushed their way into the playoffs. The injury bug set up shop in St. Louis last year and wouldn’t leave which made [...]
August 18th, 2009 | Eric Smith | 0 comments | Continued
No Kaberle? No problem.
The Tomas Kaberle saga appears to have come to an end with the kick-in of a non-movement clause in his contract. How interested the Blue Jackets brass was in Kaberle, will likely never be known. Some reports linked right winger Jake Voracek to a potential deal, but trading away young talent isn’t exactly Blue Jackets [...]
August 17th, 2009 | Bart Logan | 1 comment | Continued
Filatov great?
After being selected sixth overall by the Blue Jackets at the 2008 entry draft and tallying four goals in only eight games for the Jackets last year, Nikita Filatov looks to make the big club for good in 2009. Jackets fans have great expectations for the Russian wonder kid in 2009, after he awed them [...]
August 13th, 2009 | Rob Ogden | 0 comments | Continued
Visiting The Evil Empire
As we start our review of the Central Division on Fire The Cannon podcast, we start with the Nashville Predators. Even though they were the only team out of the Central that didn’t make the playoffs, the Preds always have given the Blue Jackets fits. I will be having Buddy Oakes from PredsOnTheGlass.com join us [...]
August 12th, 2009 | Eric Smith | 0 comments | Continued
A Second Look
There was a great article in The Columbus Dispatch on Tuesday regarding last summer’s Tyutin & Backman for Zherdev & Fritsche trade. The article took a look at what those players have done since then, and which team got the better of the trade. It got me thinking about some other noteworthy trades in Jackets [...]
August 6th, 2009 | Rob Ogden | 1 comment | Continued
Time To Load The Cannon!
The off season has been long and many things have happened over this period since the CBJ was bounced out of the post-season by the Red Wings. The draft, Rick Nash & Marc Methot signing, Samuel Pahlsson and Mathieu Garon free agent signings and the exits of several Blue Jackets players from last year such [...]
August 1st, 2009 | Eric Smith | 3 comments | Continued
Our “new” puck moving defensemen?
Could Tomas Kaberle be wearing a Blue Jacket jersey this fall? Perhaps. Has Howson put a call into Leafs GM Brian Burke? Most likely. Now for those of you that tuned in to the NHL Draft a few weeks ago, you will recall the rumors of a deal that had Kaberle going to Boston inexchange [...]
July 30th, 2009 | Devon Kunkel | 1 comment | Continued
Searching for an offensive D-man
The Blue Jackets have been in search of the proverbial puck-moving offensive defenseman since their inception into the league. Columbus’ first ever draft pick, Rostislav Klesla, was supposed to a can’t-miss pick. Klesla put up some monster numbers in juniors with the Brampton Battalion, but has never accumulated more than 22 points in an NHL [...]
July 23rd, 2009 | Bart Logan | 9 comments | Continued
Methot signs 2 yr deal!
After arbitration seemed very likely as late as Wednesday morning, the Columbus Blue Jackets managed to avoid it when the team re-signed restricted free agent defenseman Marc Methot to a two-year, $2.025 million contract. The deal will pay Methot $975,000 in ’09-’10 and $1.05M in ’10-’11, Fire The Cannon has learned. Howson acknowledged the deal [...]
July 22nd, 2009 | Rob Ogden | 0 comments | Continued
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