Dear
@NHL
, we played the remainder of the season on NHL20 and the 2020 Stanley Cup Champions are the Columbus Blue Jackets. Please give us the Cup now
“You really believe that statement?”
If Boone Jenner’s name is on those words, damn right I believe it. Barstool sucks, Columbus rules. Lets get to hockey.
April 16, 2019: The Columbus Blue Jackets defeat Tampa Bay 7-3 in Game 4 of the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs to sweep the series from the Presidents’ Trophy winning Lightning.
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head coach Pascal Vincent said the plan is for Boone Jenner (fractured jaw) to return to the lineup Friday. He’ll likely center Adam Fantilli and Jack Roslovic against the Devils.
Pazzy also says Elvis Merzlikins will play again against New Jersey.
I’m just being fully transparent and raw here so bear with me…
But I’m sitting here at work completely and utterly pissed the fuck off at God. I mean what the absolute fuck? 31. Thirty-fucking-one. With two young children and a plethora of loved ones. Why? What the fuck is the
This is very much the changing of an era in Columbus Blue Jackets Hockey. Don Waddell being named Pres. of Hockey Ops basically means he’ll assess the situation on his own and go through his own GM hiring process. If the CBJ was stuck in their ways, they would’ve just hired a new
The Jackets GM job is going to be the most sought after one in the league. Basically a blank canvas, young studs loaded up and down the system, good veteran players, and a fanbase and downtown that will explode with a winner
It’s a sleeping giant, it always has been. We just
This whole Blue Jackets should only wear blue argument is so dumb. We’re not honoring the redcoats by wearing red. Not everything has to be civil war themed or follow the “blue” part of our name...
OUR MASCOT IS A LIME GREEN BUG
Chill tf out
On this day in 2017, the Blue Jackets acquired Artemi Panarin, Tyler Motte, a sixth-round pick in 2017 from the Blackhawks for Brandon Saad, Anton Forsberg, and fifth-round pick in 2018
#Hockey365
#CBJ
As it sits right now…
Gaudreau-Jenner-Laine
Johnson-Fantilli-Marchenko
Texier-Roslovic-Chinakhov
Robinson-Kuraly-Danforth
Werenski-Severson
Provorov-Boqvist
Bean-Gudbranson
Merzlikins
Tarasov
—
Sillinger
Peeke
Olivier/Blankenburg
Still moves to be made though
In a couple days, the Jackets have moved $18.35M in cap hit…
Voracek $8.25M
Nyquist $5.5M
Gavrikov $2.8M
Korpisalo $1.8M
For that they got in return:
2023 1st
2023 5th
2024 3rd
G Jon Gillies
In fairness, we should’ve all realized that Don is not going to dick around with the Jarmo kids. We were all hyper focused on Laine and Elvis, but the roster purge is going to go beyond just a few guys. Only a select few will be safe tbh
Best of luck to Tex in St. Louis
We are beyond excited to share that our very own Rick Nash has been named the General Manager of Hockey Canada for the upcoming IIHF World Championships!
Congratulations Rick!!!
📝
@HockeyCanada
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"I just told our guys I love them."
An emotional Trent Vogelhuber talking about his
@monstershockey
team.
Easy to see why his guys bought in and played their hearts out for him.
@InsideAHLHockey
Let go over this again:
Johnny Gaudreau
Zach Werenski
Patrik Laine
Adam Fantilli
Kent Johnson
Kirill Marchenko
Cole Sillinger
Yegor Chinakhov
David Jiricek
Denton Mateychuk
Daniil Tarasov
We have the pieces. We just need someone to put them together and fill in the cracks.
For the record, Don Waddell was hired after the Canes finished 36-35-11 and 6th in the Metro in 2017-18
Since then, Carolina has made the playoffs 6 straight years, won 3 division titles, are 8-6 in playoff series, with 2 ECF appearances. 3 straight 100+ point seasons as well
The Super Bowl halftime show next year should be Matt Duchene doing mediocre country covers while Panarin is opening and closing a garage door and Oshie is going five-hole on Bob the entire time
Last year everyone wanted Lars to hold guys accountable. That was a big reason why people wanted him out. Fast forward to today, Paz benches KJ because he slacked off in camp and he wants more from him (accountability) and now we’re all angry again
No offense, but pick a side
After sleeping on it…
Positives
-Elvis looked stellar
-Bean and Gudy were solid all night
-Fantilli looked like he belonged
-Silly had some fire/giddyup
Negatives
-Provorov sucked absolute ass
-Z/Peeke just looked bad
-Rest of the forwards looked lethargic
-***PUCK CONTROL***
Just a FYI since apparently we are too brain dead to understand this:
Just because a player requests a trade doesn’t mean they’re the spawn of Satan and we should immediately despise their very being.
Laine has his reasons. He’s a good guy that clearly went through some shit
Y’all turned on Korpi on a fucking DIME. Used to be “Korpi is the future” now it’s “trade Korpi for a backup and forwards”
Here’s a crazy idea, why not keep both all-star caliber goalies?
Johnny Gaudreau, Zach Werenski, and Patrik Laine combine for almost $30M of the $83.5M cap. Thats 35.9% of our cap on 3 guys and 2 of them have been on IR for almost all of the last two seasons. The other one is woefully underperforming.
Absolute disaster.
Panarin becomes a 100+ point player, Bob is a playoff legend… Gaudreau and Laine both fall head first off a cliff
We aren’t allowed to have nice things in Columbus 🙄
Highest sv% in a Cup Final in NHL history:
.984 — Sergei Bobrovsky (2024)
.974 — Patrick Roy (1996)
.972 — Rogie Vachon (1969)
.971 — Johnny Bower (1967)
.967 — Tim Thomas (2011)
So far, it's the best performance in NHL history.
7 reasons the
#CBJ
will be far better this year than last:
1. Elvis will NOT be the worst goalie in the league again this year, too much talent for that. Will he be Vezina caliber? Probably not. But I’ll guarantee you he’ll be closer to 2021 Elvis than 2022-23 Elvis. Huge.
You’re 15-24-10. You thought you were going to be competitive. So did I and a lot of others. I do think the roster can be competitive.
But it’s not.
Let the kids play and bench the oldies already. Theres no reason Jiri should be getting shopped back and forth from the A to Cbus
Werenski-Severson
Provorov-Jiricek
Blankenburg-Gudbranson
Boqvist, Peeke, Bean
Tell me that’s still a bad D core and I’ll tie you up and throw you on 270
Chicago receives:
Seth Jones
Columbus receives:
Adam Boqvist
Jake Bean
Cole Sillinger
David Jiricek
Take it on the chin, Haters… Jackets won that trade by a landslide
I swear this fan base just loves to complain about things…
-Dead last in the league with 13 games left
-No 1C on roster
-Already eliminated
Who gives a flying fuck if they want to try Patty at C? Y’all were just bitching about winning a game in OT the other day. Christ.
I’ll reiterate this:
I don’t believe in rooting for your team to lose. You can get all the high draft picks in the world, but if you never learn how to win games you’re always going to be rebuilding and looking at the draft every year.
Last night’s win is a good thing and I
Everyone was worried that Jarmo would make hasty trades to save his job
In reality he’s just pissing off his players to the point where they’d rather leave the club entirely than put up with his bullshit
It’s amazing how fast I’ve flipped on this, but Jarmo needs the boot. Now.
The Columbus Blue Jackets are increasingly appearing in the NHL rumor mill, with multiple players sharing their displeasure. How likely are they to make some trades?
@SpectorsHockey
’s Rumour Roundup:
-Patrik Laine accepts his 2022-23 QO ($7.5M)
-Patrik Laine signs an 8-year extension for $77.5M ($9.68M AAV) beginning in the 2023-24 season
Jackets basically sign Laine to a 9-year, $85M ($9.4M AAV) deal that takes him right through his prime
Why wouldn’t you want that?
💡Idea 💡
-Jackets win lottery and pick 1st overall
-Jackets trade LAK pick, 2024 1st, 2025 1st, Sillinger, Ceulemans, Svozil, and Tarasov for 2nd overall
-Jackets run this top 6 for years to come:
Gaudreau-Bedard-Laine
Johnson-Fantilli-Marchenko
-Jackets win 5 Stanley Cups
The win in the Laine deal is 0% retained. May very well end up being a hard L on Don’s resume, but it was a move he had to make. Again, to be free from the entirety of the cap hit is a win. Just don’t rip him for it if Patty nets 40 this season
Yaknow what the best part about this team is? They’re goddamn team. There’s no stupid drama, no subliminal Instagram messages, no big cloud looming over everyone’s head. They’re just going out, working together, and playing hockey. And it’s damn fun to watch
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Positives:
•KJ is 2 points away from putting up a 40-point season as a rookie. Last one to do that was Luc
•Marchy put together a 20+ goal season in under 60 games
•Johnny is gonna clip 70+ points in his first season in union blue, on the worst team he’s ever been on
The 3rd iteration of the reverse retro (if there is one that is, who knows) would likely be the cannon jersey
Please, please, please… just give us something like this
This is downright embarrassing on
@NHLNetwork
’s part.
“If you asked them before the season no one would’ve said Bjorkstrand would be Columbus’ point leader”
Fucking liars. Half the fan base was split on Voracek and Bjorky. Hell we’ve been saying he’s gonna chalk 90 up ffs.
Imagine being Fantilli and you're 2 seconds away from living in Southern California (not the bad part with homeless guys are screaming and pooping all over the street, like the chill part in Orange County where every Range Rover is freshly waxed and if you don't have a Bentley to
“Werenski on over to Laine FIRES, turned aside REBOUND SCOOOOOORRRRREEEEESSSS KENT JOHNSON OVERTIME WINNER AND FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, THE COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS ARE STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS”
-coming soon
Going all in was, and remains to this day the right decision. If anything they should traded for more pieces.
Tuukka Rask was the only thing the prevented the Jackets from making the 2019 Cup Final. If they would’ve won Game 5 in Boston, they would’ve won that series. Don’t
@TheCBJHaters
I aways thought jarmo was a weird average. He would seemingly always make the best move of the year and the worst. Panarin trade was amazing, but going all in instead of trading him for a kings ransom when he told you a year in advance he wouldn't be back is crazy.
I don’t have an answer to this man. Firing a GM does nothing for you until the offseason. I don’t believe Pazzy is a bad coach. I do believe the roster is good enough to win games. They just aren’t.
I’m perplexed. And I don’t know if there is a fix.