The Blue Jackets pared their roster to 27 players on Monday, placing two on waivers, returning one to juniors, and assigning the remaining six to Syracuse. While these moves embodied a few surprises, the truly hard decisions remain to be made over the next 48 hours. Columbus placed center Derek MacKenzie and defenseman Jonathan Sigalet [...]
September 28th, 2009 | Jeff Little | 0 comments | ContinuedOther Recent Articles
FRIDAY FEEDBACK
As the pre-season winds down and the flu season revs up, very few major stories hitting the hockey wires on a daily basis. (Gretzky aside, but who didn’t see that coming?) So, here is a smattering of items designed to hold your interest briefly, until something meatier rolls out of my computer. Chimera/Modin – Saw [...]
September 25th, 2009 | Jeff Little | 0 comments | Continued
Skoula in camp on a invite
The Blue Jackets have invited former Minnesota Wild defenseman Martin Skoula to take part in a preseason tryout. The 6’3”, 225-pound Czech defender has not been able to find a home this off-season after spending the better part of four seasons in St. Paul. Skoula, who will turn 30 in October, had previously signed a [...]
September 25th, 2009 | Bart Logan | 2 comments | Continued
Youngsters Get Chance to Shine
aaIt has been an interesting pre-season for the Columbus Blue Jackets, so much so, that their record, which stands at 1-2-1, may be the least intriguing and relevant news. A big story of the preseason thus far has the play of some of the young guys. Maksim Mayorov tallied two goals in the opening game [...]
September 22nd, 2009 | Rob Ogden | 0 comments | Continued
Jackets Find Chemistry, Ponder Decisions
Even though this is only the pre-season, an undercurrent of grumbling was making its way through the Columbus blogs, Tweets and message boards after a 0 – 2 – 1 start. Sure, all three were road games, and they all featured unique combinations of the 70 players invited to camp, but signs of veteran leadership [...]
September 22nd, 2009 | Jeff Little | 1 comment | Continued
A Tough Start
Three games into the pre-season, the Blue Jackets have been affected in equal portions by bad luck, bad play and bad behavior. Alarmists are already gasping for air, so perhaps it is time to take a detached look at the early pre-season. The Good Unlike past years, there are some talented players fighting for roster [...]
September 21st, 2009 | Jeff Little | 0 comments | Continued
*Update* Voice of CBJ Co-Hosts This Weeks FTC Podcast
Another special show this week and a very special co-host will join me this week on the Fire The Cannon podcast. The radio voice of the Blue Jackets, George Matthews will sit along side me and help me through the show. There isn’t a more passionate or knowledgeable person that I could be co-hosting with [...]
September 15th, 2009 | Eric Smith | 0 comments | Continued
VERMETTE SIGNS EXTENSION—WHAT’S NEXT??
Taking another giant step in his effort to wrap up the team’s young stars for the foreseeable future, GM Scott Howson has reached agreement with center Antoine Vermette to a five-year contract extension, worth a reported $18.75 million. Vermette, acquired at the trade deadline last year in a trade that sent goalie Pascal LeClair and [...]
September 15th, 2009 | Jeff Little | 2 comments | Continued
Update – Vermette Deal Done!
Just talked to Scott Howson, “Vermette is done. 5 year extension.” More to come as I am getting ready to interview Vermette. Check back. Quotes from Vermette “With Nash resigning, it definitely makes it a lot more attractive to stick around… It’s very exciting to be a part of this.” “I like it here. I [...]
September 15th, 2009 | Eric Smith | 0 comments | Continued
Jeff Little joins FireTheCannon
Within the next day or two, Jeff will be moving his blog writing over to Fire The Cannon, joining some other fine hockey writers on this site, and hopefully providing the fans & readers with a more streamlined experience, with fewer individual sites to visit to get a variety of perspectives on the Jackets. There [...]
September 14th, 2009 | Devon Kunkel | 0 comments | Continued
A look at the KHL
By now we’ve all heard about the Kontinental Hockey League, and their bid to land the Jackets 2008 first round pick Nikita Filatov. And although the Russian Super League has yet to have a direct impact on the Blue Jackets, there are a few former Jackets that have made the switch to the Russian league [...]
September 12th, 2009 | Rob Ogden | 0 comments | Continued
Fearful – err, Fearless Predictions – Blue Jackets
Much unlike my counterparts, who generally go conventional wisdom when making pre-season prognostications, I am neither conventional, nor wise, so, I’m going to offer my predictions for the CBJ’s playoff chances. To begin with, you can all no longer insert the following lead phrase when describing the Columbus Blue Jackets, and their chances: “You know, [...]
September 11th, 2009 | Ed Cmar | 0 comments | Continued
Sharks Nab Heatley In Three Team Deal??? Reports abound, but denials rage
According to a report on NHL Fanhouse (here), and later by ESPN, Ottawa has finally consummated a deal for troubled winger Dany Heatley, shipping him to the San Jose Sharks in a three team deal that has the Sharks sending former captain Patrick Marleau to the Los Angeles Kings, and the Kings packaging forward Alexander Frolov [...]
September 11th, 2009 | Jeff Little | 0 comments | Continued
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