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the jackets traded flood for walser (oh yeah that names familar he played here a few years ago)
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jimotis4heisman
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it wasnt conclusive at full speed, though it was a goal if you ask me...
you win some you lose some in officiating games, we tend to lose more of them than the games we play. we always seem to be on the wrong end of a quick whistle (or like last night and the whistle that never seems to come) we never seem to win the officiaitn game
a few thoughts
shelley and stik out there, to me thats two guys who leave gaps in thier game... the only reason i have for stik last night was hitch thought the game would be decided in an extra frame or in so.
where is vyborny? the man has disappeared for one of the longest stretches in his career.
nash, hes got a nagging injury but at some point he either needs to be sat down or put out a serious effort. i see bursts of effort but nothing serious, gone is the kid who is willing to pay the price.
pic, i was pretty serious when i thought hed fit in with hitch, hes young but he hustles and hits anything. hopefully we see hiim on this roadie and hes not just along to rack up frequent flyer miles on the team plane.
pazzy, its been awhile since weve seen him do that, hes done it both times against the nucks this year. when will he make that his every night game? is he capable of that?
you win some you lose some in officiating games, we tend to lose more of them than the games we play. we always seem to be on the wrong end of a quick whistle (or like last night and the whistle that never seems to come) we never seem to win the officiaitn game
a few thoughts
shelley and stik out there, to me thats two guys who leave gaps in thier game... the only reason i have for stik last night was hitch thought the game would be decided in an extra frame or in so.
where is vyborny? the man has disappeared for one of the longest stretches in his career.
nash, hes got a nagging injury but at some point he either needs to be sat down or put out a serious effort. i see bursts of effort but nothing serious, gone is the kid who is willing to pay the price.
pic, i was pretty serious when i thought hed fit in with hitch, hes young but he hustles and hits anything. hopefully we see hiim on this roadie and hes not just along to rack up frequent flyer miles on the team plane.
pazzy, its been awhile since weve seen him do that, hes done it both times against the nucks this year. when will he make that his every night game? is he capable of that?
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It looked good to me real time, but I didn't think it was in looking at the replay, but that still doesn't explain why that play was blown down. The puck was still VERY clearly bouncing around in front of the net and they whistled it down anyways!!! I would understand if they were initially calling it a goal, but the ref clearly was saying "no goal" so why the suddenly quick whistle????
Not a terrible game lst night. 1-2 under Hitchcock, but 3 pretty decent performances. Gotta get 2 of the next 3 out west.
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Dispatch
Stung by criticism, Gallant fires back
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Aaron Portzline
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia ? Two weeks and two days after the Blue Jackets fired him, Gerard Gallant was on his way back home to Prince Edward Island yesterday.
"I need to get away from Columbus," the former coach said. "I just need to get away."
Gallant, fired Nov. 13 after a 5-9-1 start, has been stung by not-so-veiled criticisms of his coaching since Ken Hitchcock took over Nov. 22.
Veteran forwards Anson Carter and Sergei Fedorov have been the most outspoken, with Carter telling Vancouver reporters Monday that the Blue Jackets, under Gallant, were playing "like an AHL team."
"I get (upset) when I read the papers about guys saying how different it is now, how much better everything is," Gallant said. "I get (upset) when I read that or when I see it or hear it on TV. That?s why I just need to get away and clear my head.
"You know, if one or two guys has a problem, I?m not going to worry about that. All I know is the system we played this season is the same system we played at the end of last season, when we went 23-16-1, and it seemed to work pretty good then. I was a good coach then."
Gallant said he has heard from "more than half the players" since he was fired.
"There are some real good guys there in that dressing room," Gallant said. "I took the hit and they felt bad about it.We didn?t have a great record, I won?t argue that. But we were 5-9-1, and I didn?t expect (to get fired). It?s not like we were 5-20. I still thought we had time to turn it around."
Gallant said he understood he was on a short leash during contract negotiations this summer.
Though president and general manager Doug MacLean was given a three-year contract in March, Gallant was offered only a one-year deal.
"Was I upset? Did I argue? Yes," Gallant said. "But did I have any say in the matter? No. I thought I?d at least get two years, but what could I do? It was either take the offer or go back home without a job. I thought I deserve a little better than that."
Gallant plans to spend 10 days in Prince Edward Island, then return to Columbus to meet with assistant general manager Jim Clark.
It?s likely he?ll stay on with the organization in some capacity, most likely scouting. Gallant?s contract runs to July 1.
"I?m a coach," Gallant said. "That?s what I do. But it?ll be tough to get a coaching job at this point of the season. I?ll do whatever they ask of me, and I?ll do whatever I can to help the Blue Jackets win hockey games."
Gallant joined the Blue Jackets as an assistant on coach Dave King?s staff for the inaugural season, 2000-01. He stayed when MacLean become coach and, on Jan. 1, 2003, was named interim coach when MacLean stepped aside.
"I?ve been with the Blue Jackets for almost seven years," Gallant said. "I?m a Blue Jacket. That?s how I feel, even though I got fired.
"The organization has always treated me with lots of class. There are great people in Columbus. It?s a great city with great hockey fans, and they deserve to have a winner. I hope it happens for them, I really do."
Back in the fold
The Blue Jackets sent Marc Flood to the Carolina Hurricanes for Derrick Walser yesterday in a trade of minor-league defensemen.
Walser spent parts of three seasons (2001-02, 2002-03 and 2003-04) with the Blue Jackets, playing 82 games with six goals, 21 assists and a minus-17 rating. He spent the past two seasons in Germany before returning to the American Hockey League this season.
Flood, signed as a free agent in August 2005, had one goal and one assist in eight games with Syracuse this season.
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Carter did not skate yesterday because of nagging back spasms. He expects to skate today and play Friday in Calgary. [email protected]
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It is surprising that this is a Columbus team. The injuries, coaching, luck and win total more reflect a Cleveland team.
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Coach wants more aggressive play around net
Friday, December 01, 2006
Aaron Portzline
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia ? The Blue Jackets have spent the past two days in this snow-buried city, trying to dig themselves out from under the weight of some pretty ugly numbers.
In only 23 games this season, the Blue Jackets have been shut out an NHLhigh six times, more than 25 percent of their games.
Coach Ken Hitchcock agreed that the statistics are alarming.
"But they?re also fixable," he said. "There?s a reason teams get shut out. There?s a commonality among teams who don?t score a lot of goals."
Under Hitchcock?s stern whistle in Vancouver?s General Motors Place, the Blue Jackets worked hard in practice on what might seem like the most obvious of objectives.
"You have to attack the net," Hitchcock said. "It?s really simple."
And then, in classic Hitchcock form, he explained what he wants to see tonight when the Blue Jackets play the Calgary Flames in the Pengrowth Saddledome.
"Everybody talks about going to the net without the puck, but that?s not really it," he said. "It?s going to the net with the puck. It?s having the mind-set that you are going to take the puck to the net. Once you get space, you?re not going to try to create a play, you?re going to make a play after you?ve taken it to the net."
The Blue Jackets lost 1-0 on Tuesday in Vancouver, their third 1-0 loss this season. In addition to going 0 of 8 on power plays, the Jackets had only a handful of scoring chances.
"I thought we took a little bit of a step back," right winger Anson Carter said. "We weren?t really as sharp in our fiveon-five play as we need to be. We need to force the issue more with the puck. We need to be the aggressors when we have the puck and make the (opponent) feel a little more pressure."
Hitchcock wasn?t too perturbed with the Blue Jackets? attention to detail Tuesday.
"I thought as the game moved on, we started to match (Vancouver?s) sense of desperation," he said. "We had really good moments in the game, but then we also had moments where you?re saying to yourself, ?This is why we have the record we have.? "
A handful of those moments no doubt came on power plays, which early in the season helped mask the Blue Jackets? offensive struggles. But no longer.
"The power play is not a very complicated tool," Hitchcock said. "The key is to make the penalty-killers uncomfortable, and the only way to make them uncomfortable is to take the puck to the net. You have to get the puck to the net in every situation. Out to the point, into the net. Out to the half-boards, into the net. Out to the goal line, into the net.
"At the net is where the play starts. The play doesn?t start on the perimeter, when you?re passing it around. That?s where the penalty-killers want you. We?ve got to make them more uncomfortable, and we?ll be rewarded for it."
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http://calsun.canoe.ca/Sports/Hockey/2006/12/01/2575800-sun.html
By ERIC FRANCIS, CALGARY SUN
Whatever happened to Rick Nash?
Whatever happened to the kid who took the NHL by storm three years ago when, at 19, he became the youngest player ever to win a scoring title?
Whatever happened to the junior sensation with Mario Lemieux's size and Brett Hull's finish who GM Doug MacLean was going to build his franchise around after drafting him first overall in 2002?
After potting 41 goals in 2003/04 to pocket the Rocket Richard trophy alongside Jarome Iginla and Ilya Kovalchuk, Nash battled knee and ankle injuries early last year before a second-half surge landed him 31 goals in 54 games. Impressive totals, no doubt.
However, the Brampton, Ont., native was invisible in Turin with Team Canada, his Columbus Blue Jackets missed the playoffs and now sit dead last once again.
To date the 6-ft. 4-in., 215-lb. power forward has just seven goals and eight assists on a team that has little chance of winning unless he scores.
"He's carrying the weight of the franchise and I think it's affected him -- it's a lot to carry for a 22-year-old," said MacLean yesterday as his team boarded a Calgary-bound plane for tonight's game.
"You're not a franchise player at 22 like Jarome Iginla is at 27. He's getting lots of chances and it's just not happening right now. I wish I could say he's a bad kid but he's not. He's just going through a bad time."
Compounding issues, the coach he liked was recently replaced by defensive taskmaster Ken Hitchcock, who is vowing to turn Nash into something he's never been: Responsible at both ends of the ice.
"The best players want to be out on the ice all the time so we're really focused on having him out there killing penalties and adding dimensions to his game," said Hitchcock, who wants to up Nash's conditioning so he can increase his 18 minutes of ice time.
"He was really receptive to it. He wants to be known as the total package. It's a new focus for him and he's really working hard at it."
Having coached Nash at the Olympics, Hitchcock figures it was there the left-winger realized he had to be better away from the puck.
"You can't score every night in this league -- there are just too many good players," said Hitchcock.
"This way he can have an impact even when he doesn't score. Guys like (Marian) Hossa or (Alex) Ovechkin are good at creating their own turnovers. He can too with his size and speed and that's what we're trying to get him to do."
Nash figures the change in approach won't hurt his goal totals but is willing to take that chance.
"I wouldn't say I'm concerned -- it's just another aspect and the goals will come along hopefully," said Nash.
"(Hitchcock) has that reputation of bringing the best out of his players so it's an exciting time. It would be nice to be in that category with Iginla and (Joe) Sakic and do something I haven't done much of, like penalty kill."
MacLean likes to point out Nash went from minus-35 in '04 to plus-five last year and has no doubt Nash will soon be talked about as a superstar once again.
"Sure I feel pressure -- as the years go on and we lose veterans the young guys feel pressure to step up," said Nash. "But tons of guys on this team can score goals."
Preventing them is an entirely different issue.
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well i guess i can say i think pic didnt play to bad and that i called that. pazzy played well again, interesting if we see him or the czech tom.
imi still in awe over the second goal ordeal...
imi still in awe over the second goal ordeal...
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FLAMES 2 JACKETS 1
Jackets burned by controversial goal
Saturday, December 02, 2006
Aaron Portzline
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
CALGARY, Alberta ? The goal horn sounded. The propane flames were set afire. The crowd in the Pengrowth Saddledome, along with the trigger-happy goal judge, believed for a moment that Chuck Kobasew had scored a go-ahead goal for the Calgary Flames with 13:25 left last night.
So, too, did the Blue Jackets, who let down their guard just long enough to let Kobasew score again, this time for real. Confused? Well, it was a confusing finish to an extremely physical game, the Flames winning 2-1 before 19,289.
"It?s a real hard way to go down," Blue Jackets goaltender Pascal Leclaire said.
Defenseman Ron Hainsey scored the Blue Jackets? lone goal on a power play with 27.3 seconds left in the first period.
Kobasew and Jarome Iginla scored for the Flames, both in the third period as Calgary roared back to win.
Iginla tied it at 4:10 of the third period, beginning the Blue Jackets? slide to a fifth straight loss on the road.
Kobasew gave the Flames the lead for good ? not once, but twice ? in an odd sequence.
His first shot, from the right faceoff dot, made it behind Leclaire, inching its way to the goal line as Leclaire flopped backward and swept the puck out of the crease with his glove.
By then, though, the horn was blaring and large flames on either end of the ice and around the scoreboard were flaring.
Behind the play, an official waved his arms wildly, signaling no goal had been scored, that the puck was still live.
It appeared, too, as if Leclaire and defenseman Adam Foote, set up on the post to Leclaire?s right, settled back on their skates, believing the Flames had scored.
"We just stopped playing," Blue Jackets coach Ken Hitchcock said. "The horn goes, the light goes, and we stopped playing.
"Everybody in the building thought it was a goal. (The Flames) stopped, too, except for one guy, and he shot it in."
Leclaire?s sweep sent the puck to the left faceoff dot, where Kobasew fired again, this time scoring a no-doubter under the crossbar.
Cue the horn, the flames, the crowd, etc. Oh, and cue the confusion.
"It?s a fluke," Foote said. "It?s just bad luck. Pazzy makes a great play to get it out of there, but it goes right to (Kobasew).
"I knew it wasn?t a goal. I could see the puck wasn?t over the line when the horn sounded. I wasn?t stopping. The puck went through two guys, right to (Kobasew)."
Leclaire, who had 29 saves, was clearly frustrated. He has stopped 61 of 64 shots the last two games (.953), and has lost both games.
"We lose on that," he said, forcing a smile.
"The first (Kobasew shot) never went in, and it all started right there. The league will say we have to keep playing, and we?ll have to stick with that, I guess.
"It?s done. Write whatever you want about this one. I don?t want to get into trouble (with the NHL), and if I say stuff, I?ll get in trouble."
The Blue Jackets seemed to fade in the third period, when Calgary picked up the pace.
The game was intensely physical, the Jackets going check for check with the mighty Flames, who rode this style to the Stanley Cup Finals in 2004. The Jackets totaled 20 hits on the night.
Left winger Alexandre Picard set the tone, with a slew of audible hits all over the ice.
But the Jackets seemed to relent in the third period, starting with Iginla?s goal.
"We really sat back in the third," Hainsey said. "We tried to win it 1-0."
Hitchcock wasn?t too pleased.
"We don?t have enough guys playing at the level we need to play at to win," he said. "We have a lot on board, but for us to win, we need everybody on board."
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BLUE JACKETS NOTEBOOK
Jackets coach says grind-it-out attitude needed to win on road
Saturday, December 02, 2006
Aaron Portzline
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
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CALGARY, Alberta ? Before the Blue Jackets gain respectability in the NHL ? never mind making the playoffs ? they must become more than a speed bump on the road.
The Jackets are 48-142-15-11 away from Nationwide Arena in five-plus seasons since joining the NHL, including 2-9-0 this season.Needless to say, fixing this chronic problem is somewhere near the top of coach Ken Hitchcock?s to-do list.
"To win on the road, you better be ready to play," Hitchcock said. "I think a lot of times you lose because you?re on your heels so much in the first period, you can barely breathe."
The Blue Jackets, until their game last night against the Calgary Flames, had not led after the first period of any road game this season.
Even with the one goal last night, they?ve scored only four first-period goals.
"Even if you?re 100 percent ready, you?re lucky to draw even after the first half of the game," Hitchcock said. "That?s the mentality you have to have, that you?re going to grind it out and keep yourself involved, that you?re going to withstand the pressure the home teams puts on you.
"Teams who win on the road do it in the second half of games. They?re able to stay in the fight long enough where the home team gets frustrated because they?re not able to take advantage of things."
It?s all part of the "strut" Hitchcock talked about instilling in the players when he was hired Nov. 22.
"There will come a point, and pretty soon, where teams won?t see us as two easy points," he said.
Nash goes on kill
Left winger Rick Nash joined the penalty kill last night, part of the master plan to play him more minutes and in every facet of the game.
"It?s something I did all the way up, even in juniors," Nash said. "I only stopped when I got to the NHL. You look around, and some of the best players in the league do it ? Sakic, Jagr ? so, yeah, I?m looking forward to it."
Better be ready
The Blue Jackets should expect an onslaught tonight from Edmonton.
On Thursday, the Oilers lost 7-3 at home to Colorado, the most goals they?ve allowed in Rexall Place since a 7-1 loss to the Avs on Oct. 21, 2005.
At one point, the Oilers allowed six straight goals.
Afterward, the dressing room stayed closed for 14 minutes.
"That was a disgrace," left winger Ryan Smyth said.
Coach Craig MacTavish used a few more words.
"If you are struggling offensively, that?s one thing, but we were cutting a lot of corners," MacTavish said. "Our checking in the neutral zone was lackluster, casual and lazy.
"Hopefully, this is all that we need to snap us back to the attention-to-detail part of the game."
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And in this game, the GD horn is blaring, the lamp is on and they let the effing play go on. Un-freaking-real.
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