Category: Blue Jackets’ 20th Anniversary

Jackets 20: Espen Knutsen deserves to be remembered for more than tragedy

By Pale Dragon | Sep 15th 2021 | 5 min read |

After a an off-season hiatus, we’re back to celebrating 20 years of the Columbus Blue Jackets by profiling 20 key players from the franchise’s his...

Best and Worst of Jarmo Kekalainen’s Draft Picks

By Dalerrific | Jul 22nd 2021 | 5 min read |

The 2021 NHL Entry Draft is only one day away and the Columbus Blue Jackets hold nine picks in total, three of which are in the first round. The last ...

Ranking Jarmo Kekalainen’s draft classes

By Pale Dragon | Jul 12th 2021 | 7 min read |

We’re less than two weeks away from the 2021 NHL Entry Draft, so I thought it would be a good time to look back at past results from the tenure of g...

Jackets20: Zach Werenski, our own Great 8

By JKinCLE | May 6th 2021 | 4 min read |

The Columbus Blue Jackets finished the 2014-15 season on a 15-1-1 run, and somehow still missed the playoffs by 9 points. That fun – albeit meaningl...

Jackets20: An ode to Artemi Panarin, the most talented skater to ever wear the Columbus Blue Jackets uniform

By MrSwift13 | May 1st 2021 | 4 min read |

The Columbus Blue Jackets shocked the National Hockey League in June 2017 when they traded Brandon Saad and Anton Forsberg to the Chicago Blackhawks f...

Jackets20: Cam Atkinson is Columbus’ golden boy

By Dalerrific | Apr 30th 2021 | 3 min read |

Rick Nash is the best Blue Jacket ever – for now at least. Cam Atkinson may not be the talent that Nash was, but Cam has been a mainstay on what...

Jackets20: Matt Calvert was the quintessential 2010s Blue Jacket

By Pale Dragon | Apr 28th 2021 | 5 min read |

As we recall some of the most important players in Columbus Blue Jackets franchise history, you expect to see players like Rick Nash or Sergei Bobrovs...

Jackets 20: Appreciating Brandon Dubinsky

By William Chase | Mar 23rd 2021 | 8 min read |

Isn’t the headline photo for this Brandon Dubinsky article simply glorious? That moment was captured in the seconds following Dubinsky’s game-tyin...

Jackets20: Nick Foligno has been so much more for the Columbus Blue Jackets than just a player on the ice

By MrSwift13 | Mar 15th 2021 | 4 min read |

On July 1, 2012, the Blue Jackets made a hockey trade that would change the future of the organization, sending veteran defenseman Marc Methot to the ...

Jackets 20: Ryan Johansen proved to be win-win for Jackets/Predators

By William Chase | Jan 3rd 2021 | 6 min read |

For a while there we were reliving the glory years and moments of Columbus Blue Jackets’ finest to don the garb. Then the season got going and we go...