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What a disappointing opening game...should won it, but they were out played 2nd and 3rd periods.
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I'll preface my comments with the following notes:
1. It's only one game
2. The Canucks are a pretty decent team
3. The Jackets were without 2 of the top 6 D-men
4. Also without all three Russian forwards, two of whom are top-2-line players
That being said...... same shit, different season. :(
THE BAD
-Both Carter and Modin look very slow out there.
-Nash was not at all in synch with anyone else in the offensive zone.
-The team was completely outplayed and embarassingly outhustled in the last 40 minutes and change.
-The little things just weren't being done. The inability to get the puck out of the zone (seemingly one of my biggest gripes every year) leads to the tying goal.
THE UGLY
44-20: shotcount in favor of Vancouver. At one point early on, the Jackets had the edge in shots 7-3. After that, Vancouver outshout them 41-13. Woeful.
THE GOOD
-Columbus dominated the first period. It very easily could have been 3-0 with some of the quality scoring chances they had, but Luongo kept the Canucks in it.
-Leclaire will be fine if he's not peppered with 40+ shots every night.
-It's only one game and the they got 1 point. Better than nothing.
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1. It's only one game
2. The Canucks are a pretty decent team
3. The Jackets were without 2 of the top 6 D-men
4. Also without all three Russian forwards, two of whom are top-2-line players
That being said...... same shit, different season. :(
THE BAD
-Both Carter and Modin look very slow out there.
-Nash was not at all in synch with anyone else in the offensive zone.
-The team was completely outplayed and embarassingly outhustled in the last 40 minutes and change.
-The little things just weren't being done. The inability to get the puck out of the zone (seemingly one of my biggest gripes every year) leads to the tying goal.
THE UGLY
44-20: shotcount in favor of Vancouver. At one point early on, the Jackets had the edge in shots 7-3. After that, Vancouver outshout them 41-13. Woeful.
THE GOOD
-Columbus dominated the first period. It very easily could have been 3-0 with some of the quality scoring chances they had, but Luongo kept the Canucks in it.
-Leclaire will be fine if he's not peppered with 40+ shots every night.
-It's only one game and the they got 1 point. Better than nothing.
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jimotis4heisman
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very good points i agree, i felt like gallant played a little to conservative, modin and carter looked hesitant. word in canada had nash as doubtful with an injury. he only played 13 and change minutes i believe. who knows. footer took that puck to the face ouch. six shots in the 2nd, 4 in the 3rd arent gonna cut it. some good positives though. supposedly zherdev was "in route" at faceoff what that means i have no idea. 1 pt is 1 pt, 90ish is the magic number
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NEW HOPE FOR THE BLUE JACKETS
Elated to deflated
Most fans ignore history, stay optimistic as hockey season begins
Saturday, October 07, 2006
Kevin Kidder
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
</IMG> Blue Jackets fans celebrate the home team?s first goal of the season, minutes into the season opener. Columbus squandered its lead against Vancouver last night.
With the Blue Jackets? season stretching in front of them like a clean sheet of ice after the Zamboni has passed by, hockey fans outside Nationwide Arena predicted great things last night. "They?re still undefeated," deadpanned Steven Swafford, in between playing his tuba for tips from the upbeat season-opener crowd.
Three hours later, Swafford, who uses the stage name Steve Streets, had to hang that line up for another year.
The Blue Jackets blew a 2-0 lead in the third period and lost in overtime to the Vancouver Canucks.
Six years after the Blue Jackets arrived in town, hordes of blue-clad fans mingled on their way back into Nationwide last night, hopeful, expectant, and ready for the ride they?ve always wanted.
"I?m excited about it. They?ve made some good signings over the summer," said Aaron Perry, 32, who had brought his 5-yearold daughter Alexis to the game from Cincinnati.
He tries to attend six games a year, and the team?s past lackluster performance hasn?t really mattered, he said.
"It?s hockey, just hockey, and even if they?re bad, it?s still hockey," Perry said. "It?s hockey in Ohio."
Try telling that to an 8-yearold.
"They?re going to win the game! They?re going to win the Stanley Cup!" said Sam Steffen, 8, who along with his father, Tim, and 5-year-old brother, Nathan, also drove up from Cincinnati for the opener.
After the game, some said they wouldn?t read much into a single loss.
"They?re still missing three to four players," said Matt Loechler, 28, of Dublin, as he stood outside an Arena District bar.
But others worried that they?re about to see a repeat of the past six seasons.
"My buddy next to me summed it up best: ?Same old Jackets,? " said Kris Haines, 27, of Grove City.
Many folks talking before the game said newly signed players made for the best Blue Jackets ever.
That was what former Mayor Greg Lashutka said, as he milled about next to the arena. "This is the best team we?ve had so far," he said, adding that it was "deeper, broader."
"The fans are great. They haven?t lost faith."
When the Jackets scored in the opening two minutes of the game, it appeared fans were right.
"I love my team. You?ve got to stay with them through the thick and thin," said Kris Pavuk, 29, who sat waiting to go in. She follows the Blue Jackets closely, and rattled off trades during the offseason to prove it.
Citing the recent signings, the season-ticket holder said this year?s team has "more depth" and will be the best Blue Jackets team there has been.
"I think people in this town are impatient. It takes time to build an organization," Pavuk said.
The closest thing to a pessimist before the game was scalper Orlando McKinley, who expertly worked the crowds outside Nationwide.
"It could be better. But it?s not bad," said McKinley, between deals. Part of the slack sales response is because of the team?s terrible history, he said. But there also were other distractions. "It?s spread out tonight, you got the concerts going on."
But that was his sales.
For the team, McKinley offered hope: "It ain?t how you begin, it?s how you end."
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CANUCKS 3 BLUE JACKETS 2, OT
Disappearing act
Blue Jackets build 2-0 lead, then lose 31 seconds into overtime on Sedin?s goal
Saturday, October 07, 2006
Michael Arace
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
The Blue Jackets? Duvie Westcott tangles with the Canucks? Taylor Pyatt in front of the Jackets goal in the first period.
The Canucks? Daniel Sedin flicks the puck past goalie Pascal Leclaire for the winning goal.
The Blue Jackets played one good period and then took off to an undisclosed location last night. They disappeared for the final 40 minutes, blew a two-goal lead in the third period and lost to the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 in overtime.
So went the Blue Jackets? sixth season opener. The announced crowd was 18,136 in Nationwide Arena, but there appeared to be a few empty seats. As usual, the faithful were supportive and throaty ? but they couldn?t help issuing an ironic cheer after the Blue Jackets went 11 minutes, 52 seconds before getting a shot on net in the second period. And there was more than a smattering of boos when Daniel Sedin scored 31 seconds into overtime.
The winning goal went like this: Henrik Sedin sealed off Duvie Westcott behind the net, drove around the right post and shoveled a pass into a clutch of players surrounding the crease. Daniel Sedin was in the most fortuitous position. He found the bouncing puck and cracked in a backhand from short range to give the Canucks their second victory in 48 hours.
"We didn?t come to play and they outplayed us," Blue Jackets winger Rick Nash said. "There?s no excuse for the way we played the second half."
The loss spoiled a sterling performance by goaltender Pascal Leclaire, who was perfect for nearly 52 minutes. He stopped the first 35 shots he faced, but the barrage just got to be too much.
The Sedin twins, playing with Markus Naslund, were a force. Daniel Sedin had two goals and Henrik assisted on both. Brendan Morrison also had a goal for the Canucks, who beat the Red Wings in Detroit on Thursday night. Roberto Luongo, the Canucks? newly acquired franchise goaltender, had 18 saves in between coffee breaks.
For the Blue Jackets, Mark Hartigan had a goal and an assist and David Vyborny had a goal. Leclaire had 41 saves.
"We didn?t win the battles tonight, and that can?t happen in our building on opening night," said Blue Jackets coach Gerard Gallant, who juggled lines in an effort to find a spark.
The Blue Jackets are 1-4-1 in season openers, 2-3-1 in home openers. Last night, they set a record they might match but will never break when they scored on their first shot of the season. On a power play, Westcott sent a shot in from the right point and Hartigan redirected the puck past Luongo and under the crossbar. The goal came 106 seconds into the first period.
The Blue Jackets scored another power-play goal ? this was Vyborny, on a bank shot off the posterior of a defenseman ? at 17:13 of the second period. That gave the Jackets a 2-0 lead, which would have been more comforting had the offense not gone AWOL at even strength. The Jackets were outshot 16-6 in the second period and 15-4 in the third. They were hemmed into their own zone, shift after shift after shift.
Gallant?s theory was that the team was too excited and spent its energy early. Captain Adam Foote, whose left cheek was carved at some point, offered a similar opinion.
"I don?t know at this level if you ?" Foote said, trailing off for a second. "It looks like we ran out of gas. Up 2-0, you?ve got to find a way to win this game."
Morrison scored a power-play goal on a deflection to make it 2-1 at 11:49 of the third period. Naslund beat Ron Hainsey out from behind the net and fed Daniel Sedin at the top of the crease at 17:49. The Canucks? third goal, the overtime winner, was an instant replay. It was a hard-working goal, well deserved and justified by the Canucks? dominance.
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COMMENTARY
There?s no excuse for Jackets falling flat on opening night
Saturday, October 07, 2006
BOB HUNTER
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Contrary to what you might have heard, time travel apparently is possible.
It seemed to be proved last night in Nationwide Arena, where 18,000 fans who showed up for a hockey game also got to spend the evening drifting somewhere between 2000 and 2005.
Maybe this was an opening-night promotion ? get four Cokes, four hot dogs, four popcorns and a little time travel free with the price of admission. Well, let?s hope so, anyway. Because if it really was 2006 last night and those were the new and improved Blue Jackets, a 3-2 overtime loss to the Vancouver Canucks was enough to make you wonder whether this city wouldn?t have been better off with an NBA team.
Maybe you?ve seen this game before. If you?ve been watching the past five seasons, you couldn?t have missed it. This one has been seen more than an Andy Griffith Show rerun:
The Jackets are up 2-0 entering the third period, up only because of the spectacular goaltending of Pascal LeClaire, and the Canucks suddenly score two goals to tie it, the second one by Daniel Sedin with 2:21 left in regulation.
Then, 31 seconds into overtime, Sedin scores again and the Canucks win.
"A game that ended 3-2 in overtime probably should have been 6-2," Blue Jackets coach Gerard Gallant said.
Thanks for the honesty, coach. I was thinking 8-2 myself.
"They scored the lucky one on the (power play) and there was still eight minutes left and they try everything on offense," Blue Jackets winger David Vyborny said. "They scored a lucky one in OT, too."
Lucky? Well, maybe. LeClaire was so good in stopping 41 shots that it?s hard to imagine three goals getting by him. But the outcome definitely wasn?t about luck. It was about the Blue Jackets getting outworked the final two periods and overtime. After buzzing around the arena for the first 20 minutes, the Jackets played the rest of the game like they had spent the last three weeks eating Cheetos and chugging Guinness from their towels on Myrtle Beach.
There were boos on opening night. Think about that. Boos.
And you know what?
The Blue Jackets deserved them.
"Bottom line is, we didn?t work hard, we got outworked, and that can?t happen in our own building for opening night," Gallant said. "We didn?t win any battles on the boards, they got second and third chances all night, and you?re not going to win many games like that."
Maybe there was a time warp in the coaches? interview room, but it sure seemed as if we had heard this before. It?s too bad someone didn?t ask whether injuries had anything to do with this ? then we could have been pretty sure it really was 2005 ? but the volcano that the red-faced Gallant seemed to be suppressing said otherwise.
This team has more talent than previous ones, and this shouldn?t happen, not in the midst of all that energy on opening night.
"They outplayed us in the second half of the game," Rick Nash said. "It was quite evident out there. I don?t really know what happened. We just couldn?t hit our on button. It?s over, and we got to start looking at tomorrow night."
The fans can only hope that when the Blue Jackets play in Chicago tonight that the calendar again reads October 2006, and the team they have been promised decides to play like it.
"It?s only one game," Nash said. "It?s our first game. Obviously, it?s a disappointment, but there?s 81 more games left."
Want some good news?
He didn?t mean it as a threat.
Bob Hunter is a sports columnist for The Dispatch.
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NHL BLUE JACKETS
Stellar Leclaire unable to carry team
Saturday, October 07, 2006
Aaron Portzline
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
</IMG> The Canucks celebrate as Blue Jackets goaltender Pascal Leclaire skates off the ice after Daniel Sedin scored the winning goal in overtime.
Pascal Leclaire got a full dose last night of what it?s like to be the Blue Jackets? No. 1 goaltender.
Like Ron Tugnutt and Marc Denis did before him, Leclaire played well enough to win, but he was saddled with a loss after the Blue Jackets subjected him to a deluge of pucks during the final two periods ? and overtime.
The Canucks won 3-2 before 18,136 in Nationwide Arena.
"It probably should have been a 6-2 game, for them," Blue Jackets coach Gerard Gallant said. "Pascal can?t be that good for us every night. He just can?t. That?s a game we should have one, based on how well (Leclaire) played."
Leclaire, 23, stopped 41 of 44 shots. A .932 save percentage will win a goaltender the Vezina Trophy; on this night it landed him an overtime loss.
The Blue Jackets blew a 2-0 lead. They were outshot 34-10 after the first period, surrendering the lead with 2:11 to play and the game 31 seconds into overtime on Daniel Sedin?s second goal of the evening.
"Pascal made every first save," center Mark Hartigan said. "It was second and third shots, stuff he had no chance on, that ended up in the back of the net.
"We?ve got to do a better job of taking away those second and third chances. That?s not fair to Pazzy, and it won?t win us very many hockey games, that?s for sure."
Denis, who was traded to Tampa Bay in the offseason, endured many nights like this during three seasons as the Blue Jackets? No. 1 goaltender.
Mostly Denis kept his cool and rarely threw his teammates under the bus, even after games in which his teammates did just that to him.
Leclaire followed the same script last night.
"It?s a lesson for us," Leclaire said. "We got a point (in the standings) out of it. We should have gotten two."
None of the goals could be hung on Leclaire.
The first, on a power play, was redirected by Vancouver?s Brendan Morrison off a Sami Salo wrist shot from the blue line at 11:48 of the third period.
Markus Naslund created the second when he outdueled Blue Jackets defenseman Ron Hainsey behind the net and fed Daniel Sedin for a point-blank goal six minutes later.
Sedin scored the winner when the puck caromed off a skate in the slot, setting him up perfectly with Leclaire off balance.
"It looks bad," Leclaire said, "because we let in three goals in the final 10 minutes."
It looks bad, all right ? but not bad for Leclaire.
"Absolutely not," Hartigan said. "He played great."
Leclaire will start tonight when the Blue Jackets play in Chicago, their first road game of the season.
"We have to put this one behind us and get ready for (tonight)," Leclaire said. "It?s unfortunate. But it?s over now and we move on."
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scarletandgrey
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They were up two-love. It was thier game to lose and did. New players same results. I would love to see a playoff berth but the way the rest of our division plays it might be unlikely.
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jimotis4heisman
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without two of the top six forwards and two of the top six blueliners its pretty hard to judge any team. without feds, z, klesla in all honesty i was happy with a point...
picked up 2 tonite
3 down 87 or so more to go...
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Considering how the team has started in previous years, its hard to be upset with 3 points through 2 games.
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jimotis4heisman
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bk im going to need clarification...
FIRST PLACE??
are you sure thats not upside down?
and the great thing, we should only improve as klesla, z and feds are add in that order
FIRST PLACE??
are you sure thats not upside down?
and the great thing, we should only improve as klesla, z and feds are add in that order
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