All Entries Tagged With: "Columbus Blue Jackets"
The True Meaning Of NHL Realignment
On Monday evening, live from the Pebble Beach Board Of Governors meetings, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announced that the league’s brain trust had agreed in principle on a new realignment plan to be used beginning with the 2012-’12 season. Under the new plan, the league will be divided into four “conferences”, two featuring seven teams [...]
Road Trip Review: B’s Riding High After Ninth Straight Win
As a bit of a change from my normal “Weekly Reviews” here on HI, today I will be reviewing the happenings of the most recent road trip from the Black and Gold of Boston in a new feature entitled “Road Trip Review”. Also, I am aware that there is still a game to be played [...]
B’s Struggle, But Scratch Out Shootout Win Over League-Worst Columbus
There is a reason the National Hockey League is the greatest and most competitive hockey league in the world. It is nearly impossible for any one team thoroughly dominate it’s opponents on a consistent basis. Very rarely can a team go through a an extended stretch of time without facing adversity. After reeling off six [...]
The Quest For Seven: Hapless Jackets Visit Red-Hot Bruins
On Thursday evening, the Boston Bruins (9-7-0 (18 Points)) will conclude their five-game home-stand as they play host to Rick Nash and the struggling Columbus Blue Jackets (3-13-1 (7 Points)). Thursday’s match-up features two teams on opposite ends of the spectrum. Boston, who has recovered from a 3-7-0 start to the season by reeling off [...]
Unlikely Hero Leads B’s Past Devils For Sixth Straight Victory
The stark contrast between the play of the Boston Bruins during the first ten games of the 2011-’12 season, as opposed to their efforts over the next five has been absolutely astounding. Through the first ten games, Boston scored only twenty-two goals while struggling to post a conference-worst 3-7-0 record. Over the following five games, [...]
The Future Is Now For Jhonas Enroth
In the National Hockey League, it is often impossible for a goaltender to be able to step into a full-time role with the big club immediately after being drafted. Save for the rare exceptions of Rick DiPietro (New York Islanders) , Marc-Andre Fleury (Pittsburgh Penguins) and Steve Mason (Columbus Blue Jackets) –who were all taken [...]
Gone Streaking: B’s Stifle Sabres En Route To 5th Straight Win
“Our team got a lot better after that” said Bruins head coach Claude Julien during his post-game press conference on Saturday evening. “That”, which Julien spoke of was at 13:13 of the 1st period when B’s winger Milan Lucic knocked over Sabres’ netminder Ryan Miller in a hard collision after the 6’2″ Buffalo goaltender [...]
Realignment Plans For The NHL In 2012
With the recent re-instatement of the Winnipeg Jets, the NHL and it’s Board of Governors will face a tough decision at December’s annual winter meetings. As it is not economical to leave the Jets in the SouthEast division any longer than one year, due to the absurd amount of traveling they must endure simply to [...]
Detroit Red Wings Week In Review
The Red Wings were hoping that after being chased out of the Verizon Center by the Washington Capitals that things would look up. Not so much….. Game Recaps Game 7: Detroit Red Wings 1 Columbus Blue Jackets 4 It would be easy to think that the Red Wings would take out their frustration on the [...]
Game of Firsts As Blue Jackets Top Red Wings 4-1
It was a game of firsts, but unfortunately it was at the Red Wings’ expense. The Columbus Blue Jackets got 30 saves from goalie Steve Mason as they grabbed their first win of the season, beating the Detroit Red Wings 4-1 at the Nationwide Arena. After starting the season 5-0-0, the Red Wings have lost [...]
Detroit Red Wings Week In Review
Watching the Red Wings play back-to-back games this weekend was like watching two different teams. At the game this past Friday, they played like a cohesive unit. And the next night… the wheels fell off. Six games into the relatively new season, to say there’s a lot of hockey left would be an understatement. Game [...]
No Power Play Problems For Red Wings in 5-2 Win Over Blue Jackets
The Detroit Red Wings are off to a red hot start to the season as they pound on the winless Columbus Blue Jackets 5-2 at the Joe Louis Arena. Johan Franzen scored two power play goals and drew an assist while Valtteri Filppula scored a goal and added three assists for the Red Wings. Tomas [...]
Detroit Red Wings Week In Review
Game Recaps Game 3: Vancouver Canucks 0 Detroit Red Wings 2 It was four days since their last game, but the Red Wings showed no signs of rust as they beat the Vancouver Canucks on home ice with a 2-0 final. Red Wing goalie Jimmy Howard stopped all 25 shots for the team’s second straight [...]
Season Predictions Part 2: Canucks Poised For A Repeat?
Hello again, and welcome to Part II of my 4-Part NHL season preview. In part I, I gave you all my Eastern Conference Predictions. In part 2, I will give you my predictions for the Western Conference. I will approach these predictions a bit differently than I did those for the Eastern Conference. Today, [...]
Lightning Sign Forwards Ryan Shannon and Alexandre Picard
The Tampa Bay Lightning has signed former Senator’s center Ryan Shannon and former Blue Jacket’s winger Alexandre Picard. Shannon, the five year NHL veteran, had 11 goals and 27 points with Ottawa last season. Shannon signed a one year $625,000 contract and is expected to compete for the departed Sean Bergenheims roster spot. This is a [...]
Finally: Blue Jackets Offseason Brings #1 Center
The Blue Jackets have a number one center. Just let that sink in for a second. It takes some getting used to. Scott Howson traded fan-favorite winger Jakub Voracek, first and third round draft picks, for perennial goal scoring center Jeff Carter. Then, after trading for his rights, Howson landed free agent defenseman James Wisniewski [...]
Lightning Sign Goalie Mathieu Garon
The Tampa Bay Lightning signed free agent goalie Mathieu Garon to a two-year, $2.6 million contract. The 33 year old goalie will backup former Edmonton teammate Dwayne Roloson. Garon had a 2.72 goals against average and a .901 save percentage in 36 games for the Columbus Blue Jackets last season. This is a solid signing [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Release 2011-12 Schedule
The Tampa Bay Lightning announced their 2011-12 schedule today. The Bolts will open the exhibition season with two games in St. Louis against the Blues on September 20 and 21. The lone home preseason game will be on September 23 versus the Florida Panthers followed the next night by a meeting in Sunrise against those [...]
Jackets Need Major Overhaul. Plus – How to get Parise?
Another disappointing season in the books for the Jackets. A nice run early and a stellar run of play in February brought some false hopes, and as usual I fell for the false goods they were selling me and believed they had a chance. But in they end, “they were who we thought they were.” [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week In Review
Game 47: Lightning 3 – Blue Jackets 2 SO “Stamkos Nets Two” Superstar Steven Stamkos netted two goals (one on the power play) and Ryan Malone scored in the fourth round of the shootout to lead the Lightning past the Columbus Blue Jackets 3-2 Tuesday night. Stammer has at least one goal in three consecutive [...]
