The Columbus Blue Jackets picked up a 3-2 overtime win Saturday night in front of 19,500 fans at Scottrade Center in St. Louis over the Blues. The win for the Blue Jackets was their 22nd overall, while the Blues fell to 24-22-9. Derek Dorsett got the visitors on the scoreboard first, with a goal at [...]
January 31st, 2010 | Craig | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "marc methot"
Time for a Gut Check
With less than six minutes remaining in regulation and up two goals against Calgary the feeling in Nationwide Arena was all too familiar. After all, the Blue Jackets had been outscored 30-16 in the third period on the season and already dropped three games with the lead heading into the final stanza. But this was [...]
November 30th, 2009 | Bart Logan | 3 comments | Continued
Phoenix and notes
The Blue Jackets’ recent woes against the Phoenix Coyotes continued last night with an embarrassing 4-1 loss in Nationwide Arena. Derick Brassard scored the lone Jackets goal, a power play tally late in the first off assists from Raffi Torres and Kris Russell. But Phoenix backup Jason LaBarbera turned away 31 of 32 shots and [...]
October 29th, 2009 | Bart Logan | 0 comments | Continued
Defense Betrays Blue Jackets
After beginning the season with a 5 – 1 record, leading the league in penalty killing, and overcoming the absence of first line defenders Mike Commodore and Jan Hejda, all was right in the Blue Jacket world. Considering that this early stage of the season also involved two difficult western road swings, a certain amount [...]
October 23rd, 2009 | Jeff Little | 0 comments | Continued
Jackets Overcome Flames, Officials
Before a perplexingly small, but loud, crowd of 13,280, the Blue Jackets utilized a stingy defense, solid goaltending and a good measure of discipline to beat an angry Calgary Flames team, 2 – 1, and continue their roaring start to the 2009 – 2010 campaign. Entering the contest, a virtual slugfest was anticipated, given the [...]
October 14th, 2009 | Jeff Little | 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
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
Jackets, Methot close to Arbitration
For the first time in their nine-year history, the Columbus Blue Jackets could be forced to attend an arbitration hearing later this week. Jackets defenseman, and restricted free agent Marc Methot, is scheduled to have his case heard Thursday morning in Toronto unless the two sides can agree on a contract, the Columbus Dispatch reports. [...]
July 21st, 2009 | Rob Ogden | 1 comment | Continued
CBJ Sunday Stirrup #2
This week has be quite a week for the Blue Jackets, a lot is happening around the team and this should catch you up. I’ve decided to make Sunday Stirrup a weekly column. Every week I will recap the week that was for the Blue Jackets, go over any rumors, free agent updates and potential draft [...]
June 21st, 2009 | Devon Kunkel | 0 comments | Continued
