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Columbus Blue Jackets (Official Thread)

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wow 3 on 3 hockey really opens the ice up. nice move by hitch to go conservative (2 dmen vs 2 forwards) and then get aggresive with the last 40 or so seconds. as far as regulation i have no idea, i sat down for the game and during the first intermission fell asleep until about a min left in regulation...




edit here is the ap article. interesting as hitch calls it chaotic. i didnt really see that. unstructured yes. but the cbj were conservative and defensive. some good coaching if you ask me.

http://dispatch.com/bluejackets/bluejackets.php?story=251490
 
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Blue Jackets find beauty in chaos
Vyborny?s wrist shot off goalie?s shoulder in last minute ends wild one
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Aaron Portzline
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</IMG> The Blue Jackets? David Vyborny skates away from fallen Kings goalie Mathieu Garon after scoring the winner.


The Blue Jackets and Los Angeles Kings are wallowing near the bottom of the Western Conference standings, both in the throes of a youth movement with barely a month left in the NHL season.
So it stood to reason that their game last night wasn?t going to be a work of art under normal circumstances.
Now take normal out of the equation. The Blue Jackets? 3-2 victory in front of 15,152 in Nationwide Arena wasn?t decided until a goal by David Vyborny ? his second of the game ? with 21.4 seconds left in an overtime spent chaotically bouncing from three-onthree to four-on-three to three-on-four play.

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Berard likely finished with Jackets
His season is over because of sore back; team probably won?t re-sign him in offseason
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Aaron Portzline
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Bryan Berard?s season is finished. His days with the Blue Jackets likely are, too, and, quite possibly, his NHL career. Berard, 30, has been told by doctors to sit out the final 16 games of the season because his lower back ? twice repaired through surgery ? is hurting again.

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BLUE JACKETS
Rookie holds his own with video-game stars
Friday, March 09, 2007
Ken Gordon
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MIKE MUNDEN DISPATCH Jackets rookie Marc Methot positions himself between goaltender Fredrik Norrena and Patrick O?Sullivan of the Kings.
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Marc Methot felt as if he had just jumped into his PlayStation console.
Here he was at age 21, making his NHL debut with the Blue Jackets, staring at Nashville Predators standout Peter Forsberg a few feet away. Fewer than 24 hours earlier, he had been just another minorleague defenseman, one who grew up jabbing buttons and moving joysticks while vying with his buddies to play Forsberg on the virtual ice.

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BLUE JACKETS NOTEBOOK
Resolve gets firmer during win streak
Friday, March 09, 2007
Ken Gordon
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The Blue Jackets have a spring in their step and their psyche.
The positive vibe in the dressing room yesterday stems partly from a three-game winning streak the Jackets carry into their game tonight against Dallas. But beyond that obvious plus is an even more important recent development: The club has begun to toughen up mentally, to be able to weather lulls and rebound.

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Every once in a while I'll head down to Nationwide and see a game and tonight was one of those times. To sum it up, the jackets got beat by a better team. It's hard to put into words the way it happened, but it just seems like the stars knew what they were doing and the jackets didn't.......... Dallas made the right passes at the right times, Cbus didn't, Dallas controlled the puck and made the game a lot more basic and simple than the jackets did. The jackets have hope, they have talent, it's just a matter of time. When is the question.
 
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Every once in a while I'll head down to Nationwide and see a game and tonight was one of those times. To sum it up, the jackets got beat by a better team. It's hard to put into words the way it happened, but it just seems like the stars knew what they were doing and the jackets didn't.......... Dallas made the right passes at the right times, Cbus didn't, Dallas controlled the puck and made the game a lot more basic and simple than the jackets did. The jackets have hope, they have talent, it's just a matter of time. When is the question.
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well you cannot tell a lie... that is true.

i didnt see the game tonight. dallas has a nice team. we out "hitched" a hitchcock team in dallas last week. down to nashville tom night.
 
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STARS 3 BLUE JACKETS 0
Jackets tie odious shutout mark
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Aaron Portzline
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MIKE MUNDEN DISPATCH Fredrik Modin of the Jackets has a wraparound shot blocked by Stars goalie Marty Turco as Darryl Sydor trails the action.
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The Blue Jackets finally caught up to their expansion brethren, the Minnesota Wild ? not in the NHL standings but in the NHL record book. A 3-0 loss to the Dallas Stars last night in Nationwide Arena marked the 14 th time this season the Blue Jackets have failed to score in a game.

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PREDATORS 2 BLUE JACKETS 1
Preds sweep away Jackets
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Aaron Portzline
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. ? They used to bring fly swatters to Gaylord Entertainment Center whenever the Blue Jackets were in town to play the Nashville Predators. Apparently, they didn?t get the memo a few years back when the Blue Jackets started driving home the "Civil War" theme and shoved aside the "insect with an attitude."

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BLUE JACKETS NOTEBOOK
Eriksson joins growing list of injured defensemen
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Aaron Portzline
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. ? Blue Jackets defenseman Anders Eriksson was stiff and sore last night after a 2-1 loss to the Nashville Predators.
But his back injury doesn?t appear to be long term.
"Hopefully, I?ll be OK in a couple of days," Eriksson said. Eriksson was checked hard into the boards by Predators forward Darcy Hordichuk on his third shift of the game.

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BLUE JACKETS
All hands ? Don D?
Even Fedorov played on depleted blue line
Monday, March 12, 2007
Aaron Portzline
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</IMG> MARK HUMPHREY ASSOCIATED PRESS Aaron Johnson, front, protecting the puck from Martin Erat of the Nashville Predators, is one of the few healthy Blue Jackets? defensemen.

Another Blue Jackets defenseman limped out of the lineup during the 2-1 loss Saturday night to Nashville, prompting coach Ken Hitchcock to take what might seem like a drastic measure.

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SHARKS 3 BLUE JACKETS 0
Blue Jackets set league record with 15 th shutout
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Aaron Portzline
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SAN JOSE, Calif. ? The word that kept coming to Blue Jackets coach Ken Hitchcock?s mind after yesterday?s morning skate was "swamped." The San Jose Sharks weren?t just merely winning games during an eightgame point streak, he reasoned, they were "just swamping teams."

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BLUE JACKETS NOTEBOOK
Hitchcock critical of effort
Coach says there were players who "ran out of gas" Saturday night in 5-3 loss to Kings
Monday, March 19, 2007
Aaron Portzline
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</IMG> BRANIMIR KVARTUC ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jamie Lundmark, center, of the Kings slides under the Blue Jackets? Ron Hainsey (6) and goalie Brian Boucher after scoring a goal in the second period Saturday night.



LOS ANGELES ? As the 2006-07 season makes its way to a merciful finish, Blue Jackets coach Ken Hitchcock continues to take stock of the talent at his disposal. The 5-3 loss to the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday night in the Staples Center showed the Blue Jackets still have a ways to go before they are the relentless, full-bore squad Hitchcock envisions.

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