Sweden Prep: Who are the Malmo Redhawks?
by Matt Wagner on Sep 3, 2010 9:03 AM EDT
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As we get ready to start training camp and prepare for the regular season, many CBJ fans are finalizing their plans to travel to Europe to watch the team kick off the season in Malmo, Sweden, or making plans on how they'll call in sick to work in time to make it to their favorite hockey watching destinations by 3pm on a Friday.
However, in addition to their matches against San Jose, there is one team that the CBJ will be playing as part of their pre-season that most NHL fans could use a scouting report on:
Who are the Malmo Redhawks? For that matter, where the heck is Malmo? Well, let's see if I can help with that...
Fritsche Invited To Camp
Per Aaron Portzline of the Dispatch, former Blue Jacket and Ohio native Dan Fritsche has been invited to training camp on a professional tryout agreement. Fritsche played last season in the AHL with the Crunch after failing to make the Atlanta Thrashers out of training camp.
With 42 points in 67 games last year in the 'Cuse, Fritsche probably did earn the chance at a tryout, but I'm doubtful he's going to find his way back into the NHL in Columbus unless he's comfortable taking a bottom 6 role, and even then the competition will be steep.
A Call To Arms!
by Matt Wagner on Sep 1, 2010 3:50 PM EDT
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If you haven't already seen it over at HFBoards or a few other places, Skraut is working on another new video after his fantastic "Requiem For A Season", and he wants our help!
As a way of saying thanks to everyone I met at CannonFest, and all the kind words I've received over the years for my videos, I'd like to create a video which incorporates the work of my fellow Blue Jackets fans. Instead of putting together something comprised solely of video, I'd like to include photos taken by Blue Jackets fans.
What I'm looking for:
The theme for the video is “A Call to Arms” and I would be interested in seeing the photos that Jackets fans have taken which could fit the theme. Have pictures of the players during the game? Send them in. Photos of fans taken around Nationwide Arena on game day? Great! “Artsy” pictures of your jersey or the CBJ logo? Cool. Ever been to a Civil War Reenactment? Send me your pictures of the guys in blue. Any other thing that says Columbus Blue Jackets to you.
What I'm not looking for:
Pictures taken by somebody else. Please don't Google Image Search your favorite player and submit the first Getty or AP Image you find. The goal of this is to be something put together BY and FOR Blue Jackets Fans. I don't care if it's your favorite photo, or if you think it's cool. If you didn't take it with your own camera, please don't submit it.
How to Submit Your Photo:
Please email your photo to the temporary email address cbjCall2Arms@gmail.com. Also please include how you would like your name to appear in the credits.
I have a few visions for how this video may look when it is done, but a lot will depend on what kind of pictures I get. This is pretty exciting for me as I'm going in a bit blind. I'll know what my options are when I see what has been submitted. I can't promise every photo will be used, but if I can work it in, I will.
Thanks everybody for your help with this, I hope to have something together for the season opener.
Ice, Ice, Baby!
If you haven't been following the Blue Jackets twitter feed today, I would go take a look - the ice crew plus a team of volunteers have spent today pouring in the ice, freezing it into place, and painting it, and they've been updating through the day with photos of their progress. The team has also announced that Steve Mason is also going to be coming by in the evening to paint each of the goal creases.
Traverse City Tournament Roster Released
by Mike MacLean on Aug 31, 2010 11:46 AM EDT
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The Jackets released their 2010 roster for the Traverse City Prospect tournament today. We've already taken a look at some of the invites on the roster, and since then four more players have been added to the roster on an invite basis. The Traverse City team is essentially the same group that took part in the Summer Development camp, with the exception of any college players, goaltender Gustaff Wesslau, forward Tyler Murovich and development camp invite Kyle Page.
Here is the roster:
| FORWARDS (17) | DEFENSEMEN (9) | GOALTENDERS (3) |
| Matt Calvert | Brandon Archibald | Mathieu Corbeil |
| Nick Czinder* | Anton Blomqvist | Riley Gill* |
| Justin Feser* | Steve Delisle | Jason Missiaen* |
| Chris Francis* | Cody Goloubef | |
| Oliver Gabriel* | Austin Madaisky | |
| Marek Hrivik* | John Moore | |
| Ryan Johansen | Dalton Prout | |
| Michael Kantor * | Ted Ruth | |
| Tomas Kubalik | David Savard | |
| Jordan Messier* | ||
| Kyle Neuber | ||
| Dalton Smith | ||
| Ted Stephens* | ||
| Petr Straka | ||
| Nick Sucharski | ||
| Scott Tanski* | ||
| Stephon Thorne* |
The four new invites since devo camp that we haven't looked at yet are Messier, Tanski, Thorne and Gill. Messier is a power forward with the Tri-City Americans of the WHL. He's a distant cousin of Mark Messier. Tanski was invited to Traverse City last season, and impressed enough to get an invite to main camp. He was eventually cut, but he impressed the brass enough at camp and throughout last season with the OHL's Brampton Battalion that he was invited back this year. Thorne was a teammate of Tanski with the Battalion last year. Riley Gill spent most of last season playing on a horrible Western Michigan squad.
Fantasy Hockey Update - Second League Now Open!
Due to requests from people who were unable to sign up for our first league, I've opened a second league up for registration.
Our password is 'nasher' - please join us!
Players to Protect - the Blue Jackets and the SBN Mock NHL Expansion Draft
by Matt Wagner on Aug 30, 2010 9:01 AM EDT
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As the SBNation Mock NHL Expansion rolls on, we now know that we'll be seeing the return of the Winnipeg Jets and Quebec Nordiques. (Biased voting? What? No, never...)
The next step is for each team to designate a portion of their roster as "protected". For Columbus, this is something of a unique experience, since the last time the NHL expanded it was for, well, us!
After we received guidelines based on the rules for the 2000 NHL expansion, Mike, Andrew, Andy, and I sat down and figured out our list of players - take a look after the jump and let us know what you think, or if there are any changes you think need to be made! Our final list is due into the "league" by Thursday, 9/2.
Edit: Changes have been made! Our list will be finalized at 8:00pm on Wednesday, 9/1!
Follow Tyler Wright at the Ironman!
Tyler Wright is competing today in the Subaru Ironman Canada as part of raising money for the Hats for Heroes program. You can track his progress on the Iron Man site by searching for bib number 667!
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