Blue Jackets’ National Game Allocation: A Justified Outcome

The NHL and their broadcast partners Disney and Warner Brothers Discovery announced their upcoming national TV schedule for the 2023-24 season last week in separate media releases. As was somewhat expected, the...

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Ranking Columbus Blue Jackets Contracts for 2023-24

The Columbus Blue Jackets got started and finished early on their roster reconstruction this offseason. A couple of trades to bring in top-four defenders and a steal at the top of the draft should be enough to have the fif...

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Blue Jackets Will Make the Playoffs in 2023-24

As the NHL pre-season is set to begin in just over a month, and the regular season roughly two weeks after that, we'll take a look at the Blue Jackets' potential to be a playoff team in 2023-24. While each season brings unpredictabl...

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Blue Jackets Face Long Road Back No Matter Lottery Result

What in the world did we just watch this season?

No matter how many times I look back on the 2022-23 season for the Columbus Blue Jackets, I'm still shocked at what we just witnessed. Even in a worst-case scenario I could...

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50 Blue Jackets’ Takeaways From End of Season Availability

After the firing of head coach Brad Larsen, the Columbus Blue Jackets held their end of season availability at Nationwide Arena. In all, 11 players spoke about the completed season and what comes next.

Toda...

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Blue Jackets’ Laine Becoming Quiet Leader in Locker Room

Patrik Laine has had quite an up and down season for the Columbus Blue Jackets. It started with an injury in game one. It might end with an injury if he's unable to return from a triceps strain he suffered in practice on Thursday.

In be...

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Blue Jackets News & Notes: Laine’s Injury, McKown & More

We have plenty to catch you up on in this edition of Blue Jackets' News & Notes. We have a new injury to discuss, an NHL debut on the horizon and then some good news on other players.

Laine's Latest Injury

Patr...

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2016 Draft Class Being Defined By Trades

It has become apparent that there was something in the water in the 2016 NHL Entry Draft, as nearly no team that picked at the top of the draft selected the right player. After the Edmonton Oilers traded Jesse Puljujarvi to the Carolina H...

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Devils: Predicting Jesper Bratt’s Next Contract

The New Jersey Devils have been active ahead of the trade deadline. They were in the rumor mill for a top-six scorer and found the perfect fit when they acquired Timo Meier from the San Jose Sharks on Sunday, Feb. 26. General manager Tom F...

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Revisiting the 2016 Draft Debate: Auston Matthews vs. Patrik Laine

The recent home-and-home series between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Columbus Blue Jackets, which ended in a disappointing split, made us think back to the big debate heading into the 2016 NHL Entry Draft. Who was the better player between the #1 ranked A...

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3 Blue Jackets Improvements to Make in Game 2 vs. Maple Leafs

It's a back-to-back between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Columbus Blue Jackets. Game 1 was a close one on Feb. 10. The game sat at a 1-0 score for the majority after the Maple Leafs got ahead early in the first period. Columbus stopped the...

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Blue Jackets News & Rumors: Laine, Gavrikov, Berni & More

The Columbus Blue Jackets are back after the All-Star Break and their bye. They have 31 games left in the 2022-23 season. We are also exactly three weeks away from the NHL Trade Deadline.

There is plenty of news around the...

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Last-Place Blue Jackets Still Producing Sellout Crowds

18,807. Let that number sink in for a minute.

That was the announced crowd at Nationwide Arena Saturday night when the Columbus Blue Jackets hosted the San Jose Sharks. Not only was the game a sellout. It was a s...

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3 Takeaways From Blue Jackets’ 5-3 Win Over the Sharks

The Columbus Blue Jackets returned to Nationwide Arena on Saturday night looking to get back in the win column. After a particularly difficult loss against the Anaheim Ducks, which extended their losing streak to three games, the Jackets...

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3 Takeaways From Blue Jackets’ 4-3 Win Over the Red Wings

The Columbus Blue Jackets made the short drive up to the Motor City to play against the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday night. The two teams are in a retooling process with the Wings slightly ahead after a plethora of free-agent signings accelerate...

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Blue Jackets Haven’t Done Enough to Deserve Winter Classic

Columbus Blue Jackets fans have been hoping for a Winter Classic or another type of outdoor game for years at this point. Unfortunately, the organization simply hasn’t done enough to deserve the privilege of one of these events. The NHL has tried to p...

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Jets Should Be Willing to Pay Dubois This Offseason

The Winnipeg Jets are having an exceptional season given their circumstances with injury, and a big reason for that is the play of Pierre-Luc Dubois. The 24-year-old centre is having a career year, having 17 goals, 24 assists, and 41 points through the firs...

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Blue Jackets Who Should Be Untouchable in 2023

There has been a lot of talk regarding "untouchable" players in the NHL since the start of the 2022-23 season. Teams like the San Jose Sharks and Vancouver Canucks have named a single player each who falls into that category for th...

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Blue Jackets’ Laine Immediately Showing Why He Was Missed

The Columbus Blue Jackets' prodigal son has returned. After dynamic winger Patrik Laine was put on the injured reserve (IR) for the second time in the first quarter of the season, he's back. This last stint on IR was a more extended hiatus, out for eight games - whi...

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Blue Jackets’ Direction Slowly Earning National Respect

The Columbus Blue Jackets have had a rough start to their 2022-23 season. Sitting in 30th place in the NHL standings while being tapped into LTIR is never a good place to be (unless you win the draft lottery.) T...

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