Columbus Blue Jackets (Official Thread)

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Fedorov says helping out on blue line OK for now
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Michael Arace
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The Blue Jackets are using the tail end of another lost season to evaluate their younger talent. To facilitate this process, they have taken a future Hallof-Fame center and moved him to the blue line. Depending on one?s viewpoint, it?s like moving Ernie Banks to third base ? or to right field.


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BLUE JACKETS NOTEBOOK
Klesla could miss up to two weeks
Defenseman suffered hip injury in game vs. Kings
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Michael Arace
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Blue Jackets defenseman Rostislav Klesla will miss up to two weeks because of a hip pointer, coach Ken Hitchcock said yesterday. Klesla suffered the injury when he was drilled into the boards by Los Angeles Kings forward Dustin Brown in the first period Saturday night in the Staples Center. Given the vigor of the hit, and the way Klesla went down, the Jackets are relieved that Klesla will be out just 10 to 14 days.

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so i havent seen a jackets game in about a week 10 days. went out had two drinksk before the game. sat there for about 4 or 5 mins and had no idea how drunk i was. here i am going "jo how much have you had to drink, you think youre seeing a centre on d and a dman on the wing" luckily i realized that it was only two drinks and i wasnt st patricks day drunk quickly after that.

 

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walser and lindstrom got recalled for tonight. walser played, lindstrom did not. lindstrom has a profile in the prospect thread if you are interested in learning a tad about him

 

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Good game last night, Modin's 2nd goal was just sick. OKT, Walser, and Chimera also chipped in goals in a 5-2 game.

I ran into Danny Gare after the game, cool guy. He likes the direction the club is headed and said that next year will be the key. The players will have a year under Hitch and with a few key pickups, we could be a dangerous team.

 

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Fedorov showed some magic
Ex-Detroit standout answered fans' boos with winning goal
Saturday, March 24, 2007 3:31 AM
By Michael Arace


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Jerry S. MendozaAssociated Press The Blue Jackets' Sergei Fedorov, right, defends the Red Wings' Kyle Calder during the game Thursday in Detroit. Fedorov, a former Red Wings player, was booed whenever he touched the puck.



DETROIT -- The Blue Jackets-Detroit Red Wings game went down to a shootout Thursday night in Joe Louis Arena. A tightly contested affair twisted right on down to a knot that could only be untied by an aging magician. It was a neat trick.

Pavel Datsyuk of the Red Wings and David Vyborny of the Blue Jackets each scored in the first round of the shootout. Then, the goaltenders, Chris Osgood and Fredrik Norrena, took over.

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Blue Jackets 2 | Red Wings 1 (SO)
Jackets hang tough, then Fedorov wins it

Friday, March 23, 2007 3:43 AM
By Michael Arace


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DETROIT -- Sergei Fedorov is booed every time he touches the puck in Joe Louis Arena, where the fans think of the former Red Wing as a traitor. Last night, after the Blue Jackets beat the Wings 2-1 in a shootout, Fedorov walked into the visitors' dressing room and was roundly and heartily booed by his teammates.

Fedorov beamed.
He won the game with a shootout goal in the sixth round.

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Versatility could be Johnson's ticket to stick
Blue Jackets are taking a look at defenseman's talents on offensive end
Sunday, March 25, 2007 3:44 AM
By Aaron Portzline


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In the sweat of a postgame dressing room after a recent loss to the lowly Los Angeles Kings, Aaron Johnson agreed that the 2006-07 season has been "very difficult."

Was he speaking about the Blue Jackets, et al., or about his situation?

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NHL: Power-play goals doom Blue Jackets

Friday, March 30, 2007 3:32 AM
By Michael Arace


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• Game wrap-up

Here was a game that had to vex the folks who for years have shelled out thousands of dollars for Blue Jackets tickets. It was a game of promise, and of promise lost. It was tauntingly familiar.

A half-hour before the puck dropped, fans in short-sleeves chatted on the front plaza, the sun splashed down on budding trees and soft music floated from the patios of the local bars. It smelled like the playoffs, it felt like the playoffs and there was a playoff team in town -- the visitors; as always, the visitors.

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Westcott remains in limbo
Defenseman admits concern over his slow return from concussion injury
Saturday, March 31, 2007 3:44 AM
By Aaron Portzline


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CHICAGO -- Blue Jackets defenseman Duvie Westcott has learned his way around health foods stores the past couple of months.

He'll try anything to hasten his return to health after a concussion that has lingered long enough to ruin his 2006-07 season.
"I drink green tea in the morning," Westcott said. "I take fish-oil pills that are supposed to be good for you. And I take a daily vitamin pill -- glucosamine with chondroitin. I've got nothing else to do. I might as well try everything."

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Blackhawks 3 Blue Jackets 1
Poor start too much for Jackets

Saturday, March 31, 2007 3:42 AM
By Aaron Portzline


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NAM Y. HUH Associated Press
Blue Jackets goalie Brian Boucher blocks a shot by Denis Arkhipov of the Blackhawks, right, during the first period.


CHICAGO -- In a city of 3 million people, only about 8,000 saw fit to brave traffic and head to the United Center to watch two of the NHL's bottom feeders, the Blue Jackets and Blackhawks, play out the string of another nonplayoff season last night.

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Red Wings 4 Blue Jackets 1
Jackets' tank looks empty
After lackluster loss to playoff-bound Detroit, Hitchcock says injuries starting to take toll
Monday, April 2, 2007 3:32 AM
By Michael Arace


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Alexandre Picard of the Blue Jackets attempts to move the puck between the Red Wings' Danny Markov, left, and Mathieu Schneider.


There was tremendous pressure on the Detroit Red Wings yesterday afternoon. They were facing an allegedly staunch opponent on national television, with a start time of half past noon. Goal-tender Dominik Hasek made it clear: They had to take care of business quickly, with as few whistles as possible, so they could make it back to Ford Field for Wrestlemania at 7 p.m.

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Another defenseman down
Tollefsen shelved with injury to hip
Monday, April 2, 2007 3:32 AM
By Aaron Portzline


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Defenseman Ole-Kristian Tollefsen, one of the few positives to emerge this season for the Blue Jackets, is likely to miss the final three games after suffering a hip injury during a 4-1 loss to Detroit yesterday in Nationwide Arena.

"Ole's pretty much done," coach Ken Hitchcock said.
Tollefsen was injured in the closing minutes of the second period when he was checked by Red Wings forward Todd Bertuzzi. Tollefsen didn't play in the third period.

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Nash puts end to skid
Ripped wrist shot 64 seconds into overtime caps Jackets? comeback
Friday, April 06, 2007
Michael Arace
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</IMG> Sergei Fedorov, left, congratulates Rick Nash after Nash scored in overtime.

There was a late-season glimmer in Nationwide Arena last night. It radiated off the right wall in overtime. It beamed through the circle, past the dot and toward the slot on the Dallas Stars? end of the ice. That glimmer, in the penultimate game of another dark season, was Rick Nash.

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http://dispatch.com/dispatch/conten...07/jackets07.ART_ART_04-07-07_D1_JN6ALEA.html

an interesting piece on the enigma that is nik z...