Archive for the ‘Blue Jackets Hockey’ Category
Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Sincerely, Doug, thanks for the decade of hard work you put into the organization.
Sincerely, Doug, thanks for taking the reins during the planning phase and giving this town a facility that makes other teams and fans jealous.
Sincerely, Doug, thanks for pouring your life and soul into the franchise.
But sincerely, Doug, ...
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Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
Meh.
Thanks a lot, Jackets. Thanks for treating the fans that managed to drive hours through the snowstorm to the worst effort in franchise history.
It's a good thing it was only the 'yotes. Otherwise, the Jackets would have lost 912-0. That's how bad they looked.
Not at first, though. For the first ...
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Monday, January 29th, 2007
That's the type of hockey that I enjoy watching immensely. Effort-wise, that is. Friday night's win over the Sabres was especially unbelievable.
Like I wrote before, if the playoffs are slipping away, the Jackets might as well make life miserable for everyone else in the meantime, and boy howdy they didn't ...
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Thursday, January 25th, 2007
Rick Nash scored two goals, two assists, and had a game high six shots on goal for the West all-stars as his team beat the East 12-9.
(Yes, 12-9. Welcome to the new NHL.)
Meanwhile, all fourteen people watching on Versus saw the mighty tandem of Ovechkin and Crosby score only one ...
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Saturday, January 6th, 2007
I blame Drew and TruthSerum.
Too many times, I've gotten burned. Stayed up past midnight to watch the Jackets lose.
Last night, I was a bad fan. "Oh, I'll keep an eye on the score, but I am not committing 2-1/2 hours to another west coast game, especially when it starts after ...
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Normally, I try not to complain about officiating when a team I'm pulling for loses. Tonight I'll make an exception, as I'm still nauseous over the horrible display of officiating that cost the Blue Jackets a point.
It is not fanaticism to notice that the officials were clearly in Minnesota's pocket ...
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Wednesday, December 27th, 2006
The NHL Board of Governors will vote in February on realigning the teams into new divisions and conferences. Apparently, they want to maximize television ratings and ease up on travel for teams by confining divisions into time zones.
Most teams will "remain" where they are, conference-wise. They may have new divisions, ...
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Thursday, December 21st, 2006
*groan* The Columbus Bipolar Jackets gave two points to Detroit last night. Just handed it to them. Wrapped it up in a big box with a festive red and white bow and handed it to the Wings, who then proceeded to tear into it like an aroused spider monkey after ...
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Monday, December 11th, 2006
Jackets 6, Senators 2
Quite simply, I have never seen the team play so well as I did last night. What a perfect game it was to initiate my six-year-old daughter as a Jackets fan. It was her first game, and the nonstop excitement was ideal for her short attention span. ...
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
Sigh... Yet another shutout for the Jackets, their sixth this year (they only had five all of last season). Lots of frustrating things about this game... but Pascal Leclaire wasn't one of them. The man was an absolute animal between the pipes, especially through the early second period when the ...
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Thursday, November 23rd, 2006
We know that MotSaG has been remiss in covering the CBJ as well as we would have liked to. It's just that recently there's been this other team in Ohio that has taken up most of our blogging space.
It was announced yesterday that Captain Kangaroo Ken Hitchcock has been hired ...
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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
I've been waiting to chime in on the recent lethargic performance of the CBJ.
First, I was hoping it was only that the Jackets were having a hard time getting up to speed after the long layoff (2 games in 10 days).
Then, when things weren't getting better, I started wondering if ...
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Thursday, October 5th, 2006
The season starts tomorrow (finally!), and your CBJ roster has been set. I won't go into much analysis, here; if you'd like some, check out Drew's take on the roster over over at EOB.
Missing from the lineup are the injured Fedorov, Svitov, and Berard; and the reserved Picard and Zherdev. ...
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Thursday, September 28th, 2006
The Blue Jackets have announced that Nikolai Zherdev will be back wearing blue sweaters in Columbus this season. No details were disclosed on the three-year deal.
The fact that Zherdev was convinced to end his holdout with the Blue Jackets is good news for a team that has already lost two ...
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
A pretty impressive and exciting preseason was up-ended last night when Sergei Federov was slew-footed into the boards, injuring his shoulder. The AP is reporting that Sergei will miss up to six weeks.
Drew over at EOB calculates that, because of a relatively sparse schedule in October and early November, Federov ...
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