NHLHS Mock Draft: With the Number Four Pick…
NHLHS Mock Draft is our latest feature where we collectively predict the first round of the 2010 NHL Entry Draft. The draft is a crapshoot and we will be wrong… …but we thought it would be fun to try.
With the fourth overall pick in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, the Columbus Blue Jackets select…
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The Hockey Guys
The Cup may have been hoisted but, Hockey fans who are having a hard time coping with the lack of hockey now that the season is over need to look no further.
We got your fix right here.
We go live tomorrow with our 2009-2010 NHL season wrap-up show.
Be sure to tune in live with us tomorrow from 1-3 p.m. EST.
The Hockey Guys on Blog Talk Radio – link for show tomorrow. Chat room will open approximately 5 minutes prior to show’s puck drop.
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It’s Official : Scott Arniel Accepts Head Coaching Job in Columbus
Per Aaron Portzline of the Columbus Dispatch, Scott Arniel has been hired as the new head coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets.
The announcement is expected to be made at 3pm tomorrow afternoon.
Arniel, who had been coaching in the AHL with the Manitoba Moose (Vancouver Canucks affiliate), is also expected to receive consideration to be offered the Blue Jackets head coaching position. Arniel has made the playoffs in each of his four seasons as head coach in the AHL and led the Moose to the Calder Cup finals in 2009.
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Breaking News : Guy Boucher Turns Down Blue Jackets Coaching Offer
As it turns out, Guy is not the guy after all.
Per Aaron Portzline of the Columbus Dispatch, Guy Boucher has declined the Columbus Blue Jackets’ offer to become the next head coach of the team.
Categories: Around the League, By Teams, Central, Columbus Blue Jackets, NHLHS Features, Western Conference Tags: Claude Noel, Guy Boucher, Head Coach, Kevin Dineen, NHL, Scott Arniel
Update : Blog Sources Reporting Boucher Has Accepted CBJ Coaching Position
The waiting game isn’t over, but it appears that there is light at the end of the tunnel.
French Canadien blog Dans Les Coulisses is reporting that Guy Boucher has accepted the position of the head coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets.
On Saturday afternoon, reports from the Columbus Dispatch broke that the Jackets had officially offered the position to Boucher. Since that report broke, the Dispatch has updated their story, reporting that Boucher has been “frequently texting Columbus center Derick Brassard“.
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Columbus Blue Jackets offer head coaching job to Guy Boucher
NHLHS Columbus Blue Jackets Correspondent Joe Depto discusses the Blue Jackets and their offer to Guy Boucher.
The NHL coaching carousel may be still spinning for many teams around it the league, but it seems to be stopping for hockey fans in Ohio.
Per Eric Smith of FSN Ohio, Columbus’s General Manager has extended an offer to the head coach of the AHL’s Hamilton Bulldogs, Guy Boucher.
Boucher, who helped lead the Bulldogs to a 52-17-11 record in 2009-10, found success in the AHL, earning a berth in the Calder Cup semi-finals and a single win away from taking on the Hershey Bears in the final.
Boucher would likely be a welcome change of pace in Columbus. Where former coach Ken Hitchcock, who was fired mid-season, preferred a gritty, conservative style of hockey, Boucher has made his name known for his aggressive, open-ice game – a style that many of the young CBJ forward corp has been rumored to have been clamoring for.
Categories: Around the League, By Teams, Central, Columbus Blue Jackets, NHLHS Features, Western Conference Tags: AHL, Blue Jackets, Claude Noel, Guy Boucher, Hamilton Bulldogs, Head Coach
Caps, Jackets Play Lets Make a Deal
The Washington Capitals and Columbus Blue Jackets officially make a deal in which Columbus sends solid left wing Jason Chimera in exchange for depth defenseman Milan Jurcina and surprisingly team captain Chris Clark
The Capitals receive probably the best player of the bunch in Chimera, who last year would have posted career highs had he stayed healthy. The 30-year-old veteran carries a reasonable 1.875 cap hit, a fair price for a grinding wing who shows the ability to put up points.
Clark, now the former captain of the Caps, admits to being shocked he was traded. This trade may mark the first time a first-place team traded away their captain, however it was the smart move. The 33-year-old sported a hefty 2.633 million cap hit this year and next, something a contending team simply should not pay for considering he posted two less points than Chimera.
In Jurcina the Jackets get a warm body on the blue line, something they needed since Rostislav Klesla went down at the beginning of the month. More importantly the Blue Jackets shake the team up, as they promised they would do. Used mainly as a depth defenseman, Jurcina posted four helpers in 27 games while carrying a 1.375 cap hit.
Categories: By Teams, Central, Columbus Blue Jackets, Eastern Conference, Southeast, Washington Capitals, Western Conference Tags: Alexander Semin, Chris Clark, Columbus Blue Jackets, Ilya Kovalchuk, Jason Chimera, Karl Alzner, Michael Nylander, Milan Jurcina, Rostislav Klesla, Scott Niedermayer, Washington Capitals
Columbus Finally Making a Move?
Tom Reed of The Columbus Dispatch recently reported that Blue Jackets GM Scott Howson will shake things up soon in an attempt to send a message to his team. Considered a strong team with room for improvement following their first playoff berth, the young team struggled and currently sit in 14th in the Western Conference, just one point above cellar dweller the Edmonton Oilers.
The difference between the Oilers and Blue Jackets however are injuries. The Oilers lost their number one goalie and arguably their number one scorer, if not for the breakout year of Dustin Penner and admirable job by Jeff Deslauriers thinks could be even worse in the province of Alberta.
The Blue Jackets’ problems prove not as simple. A sophomore slump from Derick Brassard and Steve Mason severely hurt their chances, as well as the deportation of Nikita Filatov. Couple those problems with the injury to top defenseman Rostislav Klesla and the Jackets lost key components to last year’s playoff team.
Nevertheless, Howson stayed the course admitting he would not make any panic moves. At this point a move seems too late. Recent rumblings around Twitter point to Karl Alzner moving to Columbus.
Categories: By Teams, Central, Columbus Blue Jackets, Eastern Conference, Southeast, Washington Capitals, Western Conference Tags: Anton Stralman, Columbus Blue Jackets, Derick Brassard, Fedor Tyutin, Jeff Deslauriers, Karl Alzner, Kris Russell, Mike Commodore, Rostislav Klesla, Scott Howson, Steve Mason
