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Ducks 3 | Blue Jackets 2
Opportunity wasted
Jackets in control for 48 minutes, but then unravel in frustrating defeat
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:09 AM
By Aaron Portzline
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Jeff Hinckley | Dispatch
Blue Jackets goalie Fredrik Norrena can only pace as the Ducks celebrate their go-ahead goal in the third period.
The Blue Jackets believe they had a game stolen from them Saturday night in St. Paul.
Last night, in front of the smallest NHL crowd -- 10,494 -- in the history of Nationwide Arena, they simply gave one away.
The Blue Jackets were in control for the first 48 minutes, leading 2-1.
But then the ice tilted, the Blue Jackets panicked, the puck rarely left the Blue Jackets' zone, and -- wouldn't you know it -- the Anaheim Ducks came back for a 3-2 victory.
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Jackets notebook: Norrena's turnover turns tide
Selanne nets winner off clearing attempt
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:00 AM
By Tom Reed
The Columbus Dispatch
Jeff Hinckley | Dispatch
The Blue Jackets' Michael Peca, left, is tripped by a Ducks player during the first period.
It was not the kind of tape-to-tape pass Fredrik Norrena intended to make.
But as the Blue Jackets goaltender cleared the puck out of his crease instead of freezing it with four minutes remaining and a tie score, it landed on the stick of a future Hall of Famer -- one with 554 career goals.
Make it 555 career goals.
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Blue Jackets
Shuffle puts Nash in middle
First line's stagnant play leads Hitchcock to try captain at center
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 3:20 AM
By Tom Reed
The Columbus Dispatch
Jeff Hinckley | Dispatch
Rick Nash leads the Blue Jackets with five goals but hasn't generated much offense in the past few games.
Blue Jackets captain Rick Nash has been searching for a quality center to play on his line for about six years.
Not until yesterday, however, had the left winger bothered to look in the mirror. Nash has a new No. 1 center -- himself.
With the Blue Jackets last in the Western Conference and Nash scoreless in three games, coach Ken Hitchcock made a stunning lineup change.
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Jackets notebook: Injured Leclaire seeks second opinion on ankle
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 3:19 AM
By Tom Reed
The Columbus Dispatch
The Blue Jackets are flying to Colorado this afternoon. The franchise goaltender is driving to Cleveland.
Pascal Leclaire will visit Cleveland Clinic to have his sprained right ankle examined by a specialist. Jackets management is comfortable with Leclaire's decision to seek a second opinion.
Leclaire said team doctors told him a magnetic resonance imaging revealed a sprained ankle.
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Jackets notebook: Nash's position to be decided today
Hitchcock won't commit to moving captain to center
Thursday, October 30, 2008 3:27 AM
By Tom Reed and Aaron Portzline
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
DENVER -- Blue Jackets coach Ken Hitchcock wants to sleep one more night on the idea of playing captain Rick Nash at center.
What is becoming clear, however, is Hitchcock's motivation.
He wants Nash, a franchise winger, to skate harder and be more involved at both ends of the ice beginning tonight, when the Blue Jackets play at the Colorado Avalanche.
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Blue Jackets
Consultant working on Norrena's confidence
Thursday, October 30, 2008 3:29 AM
By Tom Reed
The Columbus Dispatch
Goalie Fredrik Norrena is 0-3 despite playing well in long stretches.
Perry Elderbroom sleeps in a Columbus hotel room, but spends most of his waking hours inside Fredrik Norrena's head.
The Blue Jackets interim goaltending consultant is a welcome guest in both spaces.
The paths of the stocky goalie coach and the high-strung Finnish goalie have been intersecting since 1990 when Norrena attended a hockey clinic in Scandinavia. Their relationship helped Norrena earn an NHL paycheck starting in 2006 and Elderbroom one starting last Friday.
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