When people debate the best defensive pairings in the National Hockey League, there’s no denying that Columbus Blue Jackets defensemen Seth Jones and Zach Werenski have to be included in the conversation. How have they succeeded so far this season? Let’s take a look. Shutting Down Teams’ Top Lines 23-year-old Jones and 20-year-old Werenski may […]

The Columbus Blue Jackets made two key acquisitions in the last few months in order to boost their playoff power and add experience. Those two names? Left-winger Artemi Panarin, acquired by trade in the offseason from the Chicago Blackhawks, was brought in add skill and improve the offense. More recently, the Blue Jackets picked up […]

Two of the newest faces on the Columbus Blue Jackets, acquired at the NHL trade deadline, are forwards Thomas Vanek and Mark Letestu. Both were brought in to bolster big needs as the Blue Jackets searched for point production (Vanek) and center depth with special-teams experience (Letestu). As with any new acquisition, players have to […]

The past week or two have been rough on the Columbus Blue Jackets. Solidly in Stanley Cup Playoff contention – or so it seemed – their 0-4-1 slide took the team from the upper end of the pack to the bottom in the up-and-down Metropolitan Division, where the order shuffles every night. That five-game skid became […]

Second periods. They can make or break teams if they are not careful. Teams often talk about their focus on starting out or finishing games strong. You don’t often hear teams emphasizing pushing the pace in the middle frame. Case in point:  through the first 50 games of the season, second periods have not been […]

The Columbus Blue Jackets power play was the talk of the National Hockey League early on in the 2016-17 regular season. Their success rate was sky-high and teams could not solve them. Special teams were key in the Blue Jackets’ 16-game win streak and kept them at or near the top of the Metropolitan Division […]

The National Hockey League-mandated five-day “bye week”: every team has one in January. With the way they are staggered, expect the standings to be an interesting mix throughout the next few weeks. The Columbus Blue Jackets headed into theirs after Friday’s 5-2 loss to the Vancouver Canucks—a team that has won just 17 of 44 […]

This season, The Hockey Writers will have a recurring “Three Takeaways” feature after every Columbus Blue Jackets matchup, meant to serve as postgame quick hits. 1) Penalty Kill Problems With Matt Calvert out for the next three or four weeks coupled with the loss of Lukas Sedlak for several weeks, too, the Columbus Blue Jackets […]

This season, The Hockey Writers will have a recurring “Three Takeaways” feature after every Columbus Blue Jackets matchup, meant to serve as postgame quick hits. 1) Points in the Bank With a 9-4-1 record this season, the Blue Jackets have found a variety of ways to earn points in the standings, especially against Eastern Conference […]

This season, The Hockey Writers will have a recurring “Three Takeaways” feature after every Columbus Blue Jackets matchup, meant to serve as postgame quick hits. 1) Power Play Payoff It was the moment the Blue Jackets have been waiting for — two power play goals in one night (and one almost credited to power play […]

This season, The Hockey Writers will have a recurring “Three Takeaways” feature after every Columbus Blue Jackets matchup, meant to serve as postgame quick hits. 1) Motte Measures Up One of the Blue Jackets with a standout performance in Monday night’s 4-3 win against the Boston Bruins was 22-year-old forward Tyler Motte, who was recalled […]

This season, The Hockey Writers will have a recurring “Three Takeaways” feature after every Columbus Blue Jackets matchup, meant to serve as postgame quick hits. 1) Back-To-Back Game Struggles With a 4-1 loss to the St. Louis Blues on Saturday, the Blue Jackets are now 1-2-0 in the second game of back-to-back series this season. […]

This season, The Hockey Writers will have a recurring “Three Takeaways” feature after every Columbus Blue Jackets matchup, meant to serve as postgame quick hits. 1) Overtime Winners The Blue Jackets won their third overtime to remain undefeated this season in extra time through the first 10 games of the season. As Blue Jackets head […]

This season, The Hockey Writers will have a recurring “Three Takeaways” feature after every Columbus Blue Jackets matchup, meant to serve as postgame quick hits. 1) Nick Foligno at Center The Blue Jackets are only nine games into the 2017-18 season, but it is already hard to remember captain Nick Foligno’s strong play on the […]

This season, The Hockey Writers will have a recurring “Three Takeaways” feature after every Columbus Blue Jackets matchup, meant to serve as postgame quick hits. 1) Breaking Through In an unexpected battle of offense on Saturday night, two struggling Blue Jackets forwards finally broke through and scored their first goals of the season, despite a […]

This season, The Hockey Writers will have a recurring “Three Takeaways” feature after every Columbus Blue Jackets matchup, meant to serve as postgame quick hits. 1) Searching for a Spark In Thursday night’s 2-0 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Blue Jackets put 43 shots on Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy. The shots were not […]

This season, The Hockey Writers will have a recurring “Three Takeaways” feature after every Columbus Blue Jackets matchup, meant to serve as postgame quick hits. 1) Korpisalo’s Renewed Confidence The normally cool, calm and collected Joonas Korpisalo forfeited an uncharacteristic five goals to the Chicago Blackhawks on Oct. 7. However, it looked like those were […]

This season, The Hockey Writers will have a recurring “Three Takeaways” feature after every Columbus Blue Jackets matchup, meant to serve as postgame quick hits. 1) Overtime Success Three-on-three hockey is not something the Columbus Blue Jackets routinely practice. However, in the first five games of the season, they have won two games in extra […]

This season, The Hockey Writers will have a recurring “Three Takeaways” feature after every Columbus Blue Jackets matchup, meant to serve as postgame quick hits. 1) “Get in the Blue” One of Columbus Blue Jackets head coach John Tortorella’s favorite phrases that comes back year after year is “we need to get in the blue.” […]