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170Game 48 Open Thread: Columbus vs. Nashville
This is your game thread, folks. Tonight's the night.
This is your game thread, folks. Tonight's the night.
I think I'm out of superlatives. For Dallas, it's literally win-or-go-home in terms of the playoffs. For Columbus, they need need NEED to win this game to keep their playoff hopes really alive. O...
Win or go home.
What a wonderful Thursday, the Columbus Blue Jackets are in 8th place in the Western Conference.
The Jackets are basically in must-wins every night. Tonight may be tricky. The Ducks, however, have been vulnerable of late. The blue line may be in some flux, with Nikita Nikitin and Adrian...
That is all.
Must-win. Those words get thrown around a lot in sports, and they are only literally true maybe one-third to one-half of the time. Maybe even less than that. But, hyperbolically speaking, tonight...
I remember back in February when the Blue Jackets showed up and humbled the Sharks. And, after Sunday's game, and with the way the Sharks are playing right now, I must admit that I'm a tiny bit...
There isn't much to say about these games anymore: today's a home game. The Blue Jackets simply HAVE to win it. If you break down the points needed to make the playoffs, they can't afford not to...
Well, safe to say Marian Gaborik sufficiently #JTB'd last night. Tonight is Blake Comeau's turn, as the winger joined the Blue Jackets in St. Louis and should play tonight, wearing #14. He will be...
So, yeah, this is when things start to get really interesting. The trade deadline has come and gone, and both of these teams look different. The Jackets made the biggest splash, acquiring winger M...
Bob vs. Hiller. Aucoin looks like he may be ready. Last game before the trade deadline....let's do this.
Steve Mason is starting in goal. What could possibly go wrong?
Yeah, so this one might look a little different. James Wisniewski is back (yea!) while Brandon Dubinsky is back on IR. Sean Collins is in for Nick Foligno, and Colton Gillies and John Moore are...
Hope you've got your No Doz ready!
The Blue Jackets are riding some kind of wave. They're breaking franchise records left and right, with 12 straight games with at least a point, and last night throwing in three goals in 1:15 of...
Well, Columbus folks, apparently there's a basketball game tonight. C'monnn... Iona? How long will that even be a game? Your Blue Jackets need you! They host the Flames tonight in their final game...
So, the winner of tonight's game passes the other: the two clubs have the same record. The last time the Jackets weren't last in the division this late in a season was, well, it was a long time...
The Blue Jackets finish their season series with the Coyotes, and this may be the last time we see the Desert Dogs for awhile given realignment. Pour some out on the curb. The Jackets shuffle the...
Sorry this is up late, but consider it 2/3rds of a game thread!
Raise your hand if you thought you'd be in a Blue Jackets game thread here on The Cannon this season looking for a sixth straight win and/or an eighth straight game with a point. Yeah, me neither. ...
Fresh off a 3-0 drubbing yesterday, these two teams get right back at it again today. Sergei Bobrovsky (YOU'RE A CREDIT TO THE FORCE, BOBROVSKY!) will again get the crease, coming off his first...
In an odd scheduling quirk, the Blue Jackets will be finished playing the Red Wings after 26 games, or just over halfway through the season. Umm, OK, NHL. Whatever. We play them today and tomorrow,...
As we noted in the preview, no matter what happens tonight the Jackets will have more wins and more points through 24 games than they did last season. So, that's a tiny bit of progress. I think...
The last time we saw these Oilers, they had playoff aspirations. Now? Well, it looks an awful lot like last year's games when one looks at the current standings. 14th and 15th in the West. Stop me...
A rare matinee for the Blue Jackets today as the Avalanche come to town. This kicks off a four-game homestand, and Columbus has nine of 10 overall here in the friendly confines. For the love of...