After the most successful season in franchise history, the Columbus Blue Jackets find themselves shrouded in a bizarre haze surrounding the future of their goaltending heading into the offseason. On the one hand, Sergei Bobrovsky is almost certainly going to win his 2nd Vezina Trophy as the league’s top goaltender next month. They have a […]

Columbus Blue Jackets GM Jarmo Kekalainen knows that the upcoming expansion draft will mean that his team, like many others, will lose a good player. The question that is consuming the non-remaining-playoff squads is simple: which player? Recently, I attempted to tackle the precarious task of fixing the Blue Jackets’ expansion draft woes. It meant […]

With the Vegas Expansion Draft under two months away, The Columbus Blue Jackets, like other 29 NHL franchises, are hard at work to finalize their list of protected players. First, a quick refresher on expansion rules. In short, teams can expose either 7 forwards, 3 defensemen, and 1 goalie, or 8 skaters (regardless of forward/defense) […]

That’s not a 4 to 1 series. That is what Columbus Blue Jackets head coach John Tortorella told reporters after a disappointing loss ended his team’s season. Mike Sullivan, his Pittsburgh counterpart, echoed the sentiment, saying, “That’s one of the top teams in the league…they are the real deal.” So if it ‘wasn’t’ a 4-1 […]

The Columbus Blue Jackets are one of four teams that could conceivably win the Presidents’ Trophy this year. The other three, the Washington Capitals, Pittsburgh Penguins and Chicago Blackhawks all have one thing in common: consistent, long-term success. In a classic ‘which one of these things is not like the other’ scenario, the Blue Jackets […]