There are quite a few Eastern Conference teams breathing a sigh of relief that the Blue Jackets’ season wraps up a week from today. Seriously, who would want to face this team right now? Columbus spotted the Pittsburgh Penguins — a team in quite the desperate situation as the regular season winds down — two […]
Blue Jackets beat Islanders 4-3 in Shootout
April 3, 2015 by
Down 3-1 with 10 minutes left in regulation, the Blue Jackets needed something to jump-start a rally. So they turned to the guy who, despite an illness that kept him out of the morning skate, has been swinging the hot bat of late. Jack Johnson wasn’t feeling great this morning and so the Blue Jackets […]
Blue Jackets down Devils 3-2 in OT
April 1, 2015 by
When the Blue Jackets gave up a late tying goal on a messy shorthanded sequence, they didn’t get down or hang their heads — they got angry. Those were the words of defenseman Jack Johnson, who scored the game-winning goal only 56 seconds into overtime, sending the Blue Jackets to their seventh straight win and […]
Blue Jackets beat Blues 4-2 for sixth straight
March 30, 2015 by
The Blue Jackets have had plenty of success clawing their way back into games during the month of March, but Saturday night in St. Louis they decided to try the opposite approach. After giving up the first goal in their last four games, the Jackets opened the game’s scoring just over seven minutes in on […]
Blue Jackets beat Ducks 5-3 on Hartnell’s hat trick
March 25, 2015 by
The first game back off a long road trip is never an easy one to play, and Blue Jackets knew they would have their hands full with an angry Anaheim Ducks team. All they needed tonight was a hat trick from Scott Hartnell (the eighth of his career) and 37 saves from Sergei Bobrovsky, locking […]
Blue Jackets whip Canucks 6-2
March 20, 2015 by
It’s becoming a habit for the Blue Jackets of late, and it earned them another two points in Vancouver on Thursday night and their first win at Rogers Arena since Oct. 5, 2009. The Blue Jackets were winners for the fourth time in their last five games, with all four wins requiring a comeback effort. […]
Blue Jackets beat Oilers 4-3 in SO
March 19, 2015 by
It was hardly a work of art, but the Blue Jackets managed to eek out their second shootout win over the Edmonton Oilers in the span of five days — and, in the process, snapped a lengthy losing skid in Alberta’s capital. For the second straight game against the Oilers, Alexander Wennberg notched the game-deciding […]
Hurricanes beat Blue Jackets 3-1
March 16, 2015 by
Blue Jackets coach Todd Richards was not happy with his team’s lack of discipline in a shootout win over the Edmonton Oilers on Friday night. Sunday afternoon against the Carolina Hurricanes, Columbus did itself no favors with a penalty-filled second period. The Hurricanes took the season series 3-1 with a 3-2 victory at Nationwide Arena, […]
Blue Jackets rip Red Wings 3-1
March 13, 2015 by
Sergei Bobrovsky stole the show in a 1-0 shootout win back on Dec. 16 at Joe Louis Arena. He gave the Red Wings faithful an encore Thursday night. The Blue Jackets polished off a two-game sweep of their midweek road trip and Bobrovsky was the game’s No. 1 star, making 41 saves and delivering another […]
Blue Jackets break skid, beat Hurricanes 4-3 in shootout
March 11, 2015 by
Tuesday night’s first period was one the Blue Jackets wanted to quickly erase. It was chaotic at times, scrambling to get out of their own zone, taking careless penalties and allowing two power play goals to fall behind early. Carolina was skating, winning races and getting the bounces — and everything compounded in a negative […]
