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Columbus Blue Jackets (Official Thread)

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Buckeyeskickbuttocks;1626374; said:
I agree that the team is just dreadful right now in terms of W/L and it's quite frustrating to watch. I'm not the most versed in hockey Xs and Os, but it just seems to me that the CBJ can't complete a pass, seem to simply throw the puck around the ice and play with a certain disorganization that I don't see from the other teams. There seldom seems to be any charge to the net for rebounds or loose pucks, and then the times the CBJ do have someone in front, they either wiff or miss the net... Like I said, I don't know hockey Xs and Os, but there seems to be no sets at all - dump it in to the corner, dig it out, pass to the blue line.. no body home... go play defense.

All that said, I have to think getting rid of Hitch would be a huge mistake. Accountability for the team's play is his, of course, but the guy is a proven winner of a coach and I'd hate to see the CBJ "start over" with someone else right now.

I suppose the good news is that this team is still very very young. That's probably costing them right now, because these losses seem to be in their heads in the same way Michigan was in Ohio State's head in the Cooper era. "Here we go again....." But, in the long run, if they can keep the core group of guys together, there's a good deal of potential on the ice.
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The team is young - there's no doubt about it. The problem is that during a lot of this streak they are on, many of the mistakes haven't been primarily made by the younger players. The Vets on this team (Tyutin, Commodore and even to a certain extent Nash) haven't been setting the world on fire.

Some of the issues this team continues to have is due to youth, but an equal share is due to what I think is a lost locker room. Either fix the players or the coach - now I THINK it would be easier to fix the coach, but in the long term the players are the real issue here.
 
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BuckeyeMike80;1626388; said:
The team is young - there's no doubt about it. The problem is that during a lot of this streak they are on, many of the mistakes haven't been primarily made by the younger players. The Vets on this team (Tyutin, Commodore and even to a certain extent Nash) haven't been setting the world on fire.

Some of the issues this team continues to have is due to youth, but an equal share is due to what I think is a lost locker room. Either fix the players or the coach - now I THINK it would be easier to fix the coach, but in the long term the players are the real issue here.
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well said, thats why firing hitch right now might not be the smartest thing to do...although to some extent, this streak lies on his shoulders
 
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Everyone needs to remember that this is still the same team that got off to the best start in franchise history and had a good stretch to start the season that included some tough road games. Hitch was the coach then too. I don't know what the fluuuzzeer has happened, but clearly this team can't figure it out enough to put it together. He's been making adjustments though, that is obvious. We've had a lot of personnel moves, and he did a good job early in the season coping with injuries. We gave away a lot of 3rd period leads and scored and gave up a bunch of goals early in the season...the defense has gotten better and the goaltending has been solid since Garon has gotten more ice time, but now we can't seem to score. So we're losing 2-1 and 3-2 games instead of 5-4 and 6-5 games. We used to be awful in the third after taking leads, now we play better later in the game many times but get off to bad starts and being down 0-2, 0-3 or 0-4 after 1. The Detroit game was a exception to much of that, but still. I still think we can compete with any team out there, and that is a testament to Hitch and not something I've said about previous CBJ clubs. I think Hitch is still the guy to keep here, the guys on the ice just have to put the good things from earlier in the season together with the good things more recently. We don't need or want to play "run and shoot" hockey, but we need better puck movement in the center area and the zone to create some better chances. What I've seen out there is players, not Hitch.

(Sorry for using "we"...I of course realize I'm not out there :lol:)
 
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Crayfish;1626983; said:
No such luck

Capitals get Chimera from Jackets for 2 players - NHL - Yahoo! Sports

WASHINGTON (AP)?The Washington Capitals have acquired left wing Jason Chimera(notes) (chih-MAIR-uh) from Columbus in a trade that sends right wing Chris Clark(notes) and defenseman Milan Jurcina(notes) to the Blue Jackets....
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Mixed reviews from the Caps forum. A lot of views of it as a cap move for them more than anything. Clark makes a hefty amount of money (~$2.5M per) for a 4th line kind of guy, but he was their captain, so hopefully he can provide some much needed leadership in the locker room. Jurcina (great...another guy nicknamed "Juice" :lol:) is a big (6-4, 230+) right-handed defenseman. Sounds like a stay-home kind of guy. Another guy to add to the "Czech Mates" party.

This looks like a win-win kind of deal. Columbus gets some leadership and blue-line help. Washington dumps some salary and adds a gritty player.

Hope there are no hard feelings between Ovie and Chimmer. :box:
 
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Bucky Katt;1627000; said:
Mixed reviews from the Caps forum. A lot of views of it as a cap move for them more than anything. Clark makes a hefty amount of money (~$2.5M per) for a 4th line kind of guy, but he was their captain, so hopefully he can provide some much needed leadership in the locker room. Jurcina (great...another guy nicknamed "Juice" :lol:) is a big (6-4, 230+) right-handed defenseman. Sounds like a stay-home kind of guy. Another guy to add to the "Czech Mates" party.

This looks like a win-win kind of deal. Columbus gets some leadership and blue-line help. Washington dumps some salary and adds a gritty player.

Hope there are no hard feelings between Ovie and Chimmer. :box:
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why didnt howson make this trade when rusty got hurt earlier? we really could have used some help on the blue line a month ago....atleast we finally picked up someone pretty decent, although id hate to see chimmer go (hes a great guy and will be missed).
any word on when jurcina and clark will be eligible to play for us?
 
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Bucky Katt;1627000; said:
Mixed reviews from the Caps forum. A lot of views of it as a cap move for them more than anything. Clark makes a hefty amount of money (~$2.5M per) for a 4th line kind of guy, but he was their captain, so hopefully he can provide some much needed leadership in the locker room. Jurcina (great...another guy nicknamed "Juice" :lol:) is a big (6-4, 230+) right-handed defenseman. Sounds like a stay-home kind of guy. Another guy to add to the "Czech Mates" party.

This looks like a win-win kind of deal. Columbus gets some leadership and blue-line help. Washington dumps some salary and adds a gritty player.

Hope there are no hard feelings between Ovie and Chimmer. :box:
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I'm sure Ovie will immediately challenge Chimmer to a race to see who is faster. :evil:

NUTS4theBUCKS28;1627024; said:
why didnt howson make this trade when rusty got hurt earlier? we really could have used some help on the blue line a month ago....atleast we finally picked up someone pretty decent, although id hate to see chimmer go (hes a great guy and will be missed).
any word on when jurcina and clark will be eligible to play for us?
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Maybe this wasn't a possibility at the time of the yearly Klesla injury. Washington has been looking for some grit for a while, but at the time of the Klesla injury, the CBJ weren't hurting quite as bad as they are now.
 
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BuckeyeMike80;1627039; said:
I'm sure Ovie will immediately challenge Chimmer to a race to see who is faster. :evil:



Maybe this wasn't a possibility at the time of the yearly Klesla injury. Washington has been looking for some grit for a while, but at the time of the Klesla injury, the CBJ weren't hurting quite as bad as they are now.
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tis true....still dont get why howsons not trying to trade modin though. that would have made more sense to trade away freddie than chimmer IMO
 
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NUTS4theBUCKS28;1627056; said:
tis true....still dont get why howsons not trying to trade modin though. that would have made more sense to trade away freddie than chimmer IMO
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Modin has no trade value at this point within the NHL.

Maybe if he scores a few and some teams want to take a low priority chance on him, but with his recent injury history no one is going to give up anything for him. Besides I think after this year Modin comes off of the cap so the CBJ will be free to look at someone else, like say, Tomas Holmstrom who will almost certainly be cut loose by Detroit after this year.
 
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Bucky Katt;1627112; said:
Someone get Mike on suicide watch, stat. Eddie Olczyk is in the house.
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Since Olcyzk's favorite team is good this year and since Detroit is struggling, he doesn't have to be as much of an obnoxious ass this year unlike other years.

Besides it's on Versus and I have DirecTV. I'm having to watch it over the internet and I missed the break :lol:
 
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