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Columbus Blue Jackets (Official Thread)

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Not a good return, but there is a bright side to this. The Jackets should be really difficult to play against. They actually have a legitimate defense and legitimate defensive depth. Dubinsky is a good two-way second line winger, Anisimov is a very good 3 at center. Both are good penalty killers. They're guys you want on your team. The bottom six and second line are pretty solid.

The problem is that the team has no high-end offensive players, or high-end offensive prospects. They need to have a couple good drafts. They're at least building the right way now. But, it's too late for that, and they just let their best trade asset go without getting any offense in return. They're the only team in the league without a legitimate first line forward, which is pretty incredible.

I expect lots of boring defensive battles next season. They need offense more than any other team I can remember.
 
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Not a good return, but there is a bright side to this. The Jackets should be really difficult to play against. They actually have a legitimate defense and legitimate defensive depth. Dubinsky is a good two-way second line winger, Anisimov is a very good 3 at center. Both are good penalty killers. They're guys you want on your team. The bottom six and second line are pretty solid.

The problem is that the team has no high-end offensive players, or high-end offensive prospects. They need to have a couple good drafts. They're at least building the right way now. But, it's too late for that, and they just let their best trade asset go without getting any offense in return. They're the only team in the league without a legitimate first line forward, which is pretty incredible.

I expect lots of boring defensive battles next season. They need offense more than any other team I can remember.
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Yep, they just transformed into the 2003 Minnesota Wild without as much offense. They still suck in goal, but even a goalie as bad as Mason will look better simply because of what is in front of him this year.
 
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The entire team definitely has up side and potential, it's just how to we tap into that potential and make these young guys play like veterans. This is the part of the franchise that has always struggled. Besides Nash, we brought in alot of young talent and we cannot develop them into what they should be. They leave this team, and become 1st and 2nd liners on playoff contending teams. This is what the franchise needs to focus on. I do agree that we should have gotten more for Nash, but the guys we brought in have quite a bit of talent and a lot of potential. Two of them are 40-point players, which is great.

Howson does make some dumb moves and doesn't always think straight, but if you look at the talent he has brought in...it's there. The team just isn't doing anything to help these young guys out to develop and become the players they should be. I don't know how other teams develop players, but whatever we are doing obviously is not working.
 
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The Columbus Blue Jackets have assigned defenseman and No. 2 overall pick this summer Ryan Murray to the Western Hockey League's Everett Silvertips and center Boone Jenner to the Ontario Hockey League's Oshawa Generals.
The moves were made to allow younger players to return to their amateur clubs while the NHL sorts out its labor problems with the players' association.

Entire article: http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/id/8374591/columbus-blue-jackets-assign-no-2-pick-ryan-murray-whl

And does anybody really care?

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JXC said:
What a joke. This needs to go to a federal arbitrator, and whatever he says goes. It affects too many people...another thing that makes college football the best sport ever...no work stoppages.
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I guess it might be unclear which country the federal arbitrator would come from but I don't even know if Canada has federal arbitrators. Maybe the referees and linesmen will strike also:popcorn:
 
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Best news in a long time for the Jackets!
http://bluejacketsxtra.dispatch.com...avidson-has-the-stuff-to-handle-this-job.html

UPDATED: The Blue Jackets hiring of John Davidson as president of hockey operations is official. The club plans a 2 p.m. press conference in Nationwide Arena.
Done Deal: Davidson joins CBJ
FROM EARLIER: The Blue Jackets have interspersed brief spells of credibility with long spans of ineptitude and folly in their 13 years on ice.
If John Davidson shows up at the nadir, he is just in time. His job will be to reverse a long history of mismanagement.
There is a path to 342 wins, 441 losses, 33 ties and 86 overtime losses over 11 seasons. There is a reason the Jackets have only once made the playoffs. A small-market team must be uniformly intelligent and steadily focused, and that has not been the case here. The tone was set early with Doug MacLean, and it has been altered only intermittently ? and never for long.
MacLean was fired as president and general manager in 2007 and has yet to resurface in the NHL. The Jackets? second general manager, Scott Howson, has led the team to the playoffs ? and, last season, to the worst record in the league. MacLean and Howson have gone through six coaches and five interims.
Their drafts have been overwhelmingly underwhelming. Of their first nine first-round picks, eight were traded. Their second- and third-round picks have had an impact ranging from brief to negligible and nonexistent. They have yet to show they can develop talent within their system. Has there been a player, ever, who has been better than advertised?
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