Cannon Blasts: It’s Beginning To Feel A Lot Like Christmas
Blue Jackets, hockey and sports news and notes to get your week going.
Ahoy, Jackets Cannon readers!
Welcome back to Cannon Blasts, the segment that’s supposed to be regular but I sometimes lose track of time and don’t get to it as often as I’d like.
And I usually like to open these with some sort of expanded thoughts or a mini column or something but, today, I have nothing. If you wanna chat, lets do so in the comments.
Lets get to the news!
Columbus Blue Jackets News
- It was a bummer of a loss over the weekend against the Islanders. If you missed what happened, head to our recap.
- It was a split weekend for the Monsters, who beat the Syracuse Crunch in overtime but couldn’t get it done against them in regulation.
- Tom Reed of the Athletic has as much of an update as you can hope for in the immediate aftermath of Ryan Murray going down with a foot injury.
- Anthony Duclair has seen a bit of a dip in production as of late. Chris Pennington at 1st Ohio Battery explains.
- Union and Blue’s William Espy says goaltending is a bit of an issue for the Jackets and lays out some potential solutions./
Hockey News
- William Nylander is a Toronto Maple Leaf.
- The Hersey Bears set a Teddy Bear Toss record. Also, Teddy Bear Tosses are, I think, my favorite promotion in minor lea...scratch that, my favorite promotion in sports.
- In the latest edition of “Ilya Kovalchuck’s No Good, Very Bad Return to the NHL,” he’ll miss four weeks due to a squints...”ankle thing”?
- I’d like to give major stick taps to the Buffalo Sabres for one hell of a November./
Sports News
- The College Football Playoff is set. And it’s complete bullhonkey UCF isn’t in.
- I don’t need to tell you, but I’m about to - Ohio State is seemingly always in the CFP conversation (deservedly or not, but that’s another conversation).
- While there are four teams playing for the national title, four teams who were bowl eligible didn’t get invites at all.
- The San Antonio Spurs have been the forerunner for the NBA for nearly two decades. Are they...are they starting to fall behind?
- We have our first real blockbuster trade of the winter in baseball and the Mets still wont contend in the NL East.
- The National Lacrosse League recently lost two weeks due to a labor dispute, but it has since been resolved and they’ve unveiled an amended schedule. The season starts December 15. Go Swarm./