OFFICIAL Columbus Blue Jackets Thread

[jimotis4heisman]

up tonight at the canucks. no tv. tonight will be gallants 100th game as a head coach. also the jackets look to tie the franchise record with 9 road wins. if they win tonight they will also tie the franchise record for longst road winning streak (3). i would figure marc denis will start in goal.

[scarletandgrey]

I'm [censored]ed that the game isn't televised tonight

[jimotis4heisman]

Originally Posted by scarletandgrey

I'm [censored]ed that the game isn't televised tonight

join the club. im going to attempt to find someone who has nhl center ice. the game is on direct tv if you get the package. no one in columbus has it since nearly every game is on tv. but ill be attempting to listen to matthews and davidge, atleast until the drive me nuts. most likely ill spend the time refreshing the official score sheet off nhl.com


try calling your local bdubs. they usually carry the no televised fsn games.

[jimotis4heisman]

denis gave up 4 first period goal, has been relieved by pascal.

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Dispatch

2/7/06

CANUCKS 7 | BLUE JACKETS 4

Jackets rally, then get buried by Canucks

Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Aaron Portzline
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia — There is a raging debate in Vancouver as to which trio of Canucks forwards deserves to be considered the No. 1 line.
Last night, from the Blue Jackets’ perspective, they all looked pretty good. Too good, actually.
The Blue Jackets were run over by the Canucks, who took a 4-0 lead in the first period and went on to a 7-4 victory before 18,422 in General Motors Place.
Rick Nash had two goals for Columbus, the last with 1 minute, 15 seconds remaining.
But it was a rough end to a long road trip for the Blue Jackets.
Along the way, Canadian newspapers and radio stations have raved about the Blue Jackets, dropping the tag "hottest team in the NHL" on them with great frequency.
Let’s just say the Jackets cooled a bit last night. They took too many penalties (10), allowed too many power-play goals (five) and spent much of their even-strength time chasing the Canucks as they whirled away in the attack zone.
Certainly, this three-game trip, taken as a whole, was pretty good for Columbus. The Jackets started with back-to-back wins in Calgary and Edmonton on Wednesday and Thursday.
Maybe the three-day wait in Vancouver, for all of its recuperative benefits, was counterproductive. Maybe a little rust developed. This was ugly, as in, you-ain’t-got-no-alibi.
The Canucks needed just 2:29 to get on the board.
This is where the supposed No. 2 line stepped to the fore.
Anson Carter was wide open in the left faceoff circle when Daniel Sedin’s attempt at a wraparound sent the puck right at him. He blasted a one timer past Marc Denis to make it 1-0.
Carter now has 21 goals. Daniel Sedin has 35 assists, and his identical twin brother, Henrik, has 41. Not really a No. 2 line, is it?
Barely a minute later, the Canucks’ No. 3 line sounded the horn, with Josh Green scoring at the end of a rush to make it 2-0.
One can only imagine that the Markus Naslund-Brendan Morrison-Todd Bertuzzi line — one of the best lines in the NHL the past five seasons — was getting a little jealous on the bench. They’ve been torched by the local press during a recent dry spell.
But, at 12:52 of the second period, with the Canucks on a power play, Big Bert came rolling through the slot, took a feed from Morrison and slid the puck through Denis’ pads. It was 3-0.
The Vancouver defense got into the act later in the first period, with Mattias Ohlund scoring on a slap shot from inside the blue line to make it 4-0 with 3:42 left in the period.
Denis, who had won six straight starts, was replaced by Pascal Leclaire for the start of the second period. But Denis was back for the third period, when Leclaire was felled by a back injury.
The Blue Jackets made a minor push in the second period and early in the third, but it was too late.
Nash scored off his own rebound at 8:57 of the second period to make it 4-1, and drew a penalty shot four minutes later that could have cut the lead in half.
Alas, Vancouver goaltender Alex Auld stuffed Nash’s attempt with his right pad.
The Jackets pulled to 4-2 on Nikolai Zherdev’s goal at 1:47 of the third period and made it 4-3 only 30 seconds later when Rostislav Klesla scored off a nasty wrister that tucked under the crossbar near the far post from 40 feet.
The Canucks reawakened at that point, scoring three more power-play goals by Daniel Sedin, Naslund and Trevor Linden to up the lead to 7-3 before Nash netted his second of the night to end the scoring.
aportzline@dispatch.com

[jimotis4heisman]

check out the scorecard from last night. the jackets had a mere 50 penalty minutes.

oh yeah, bill mccreary did the game. i didnt go out to watch the game, but i cant remember the last time he did a game and i felt like we didnt get the short end of the stick.
http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreport...6/GS020817.HTM


here is tsn.ca take. not nearly as doom and gloom as the dispatchs take.
http://tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=153926&hubname=

VANCOUVER (CP) - The Vancouver Canucks jumped to a 4-0 lead but still needed a sizzling power play to cool off the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Vancouver scored a season-high five power-play goals gave the Canucks a 7-4 victory Monday.
"It was big," Canucks forward Anson Carter said. "We let them hang around a little bit after being up by a few goals and we gave them a little bit of life. We got a little sloppy but we were able to drive the final nail in the coffin and that was a big turning point for us."
Carter and Josh Green gave the Canucks to a 2-0 lead in the first three minutes 42 seconds. Todd Bertuzzi and Mattias Ohlund added power play goals before the period ended.
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However, Columbus pulled to within a goal and Vancouver needed third-period goals by Daniel Sedin, Markus Naslund and Trevor Linden to pull away from the recently surging Blue Jackets
Carter said the Canucks, who still share first place in the Northwest Division with the Calgary Flames, can't count on their power play to bail them out all the time.
"It's been good so far," Carter said after scoring his 21st goal of the season.
"The key thing we have to remember is the power play gets cold and hot over the course of 82 games. You're going to go through peaks and valleys where you're sizzling at one point and then you might hit a little bit of a low point."
Naslund, who reached 25 goals for the seventh time in his career, said the Canucks needed to score their last five goals with the man advantage after a letdown allowed the Blue Jackets to close to 4-3 at 2:17 of the third period.
"It comes from taking penalties and giving them chances," he said. "Plus, we gave (Rick) Nash four breakaways and we've got to be careful letting guys behind our (defence)."
Nash scored twice and was foiled by Vancouver netminder Alex Auld on a second period penalty shot.
Nikolai Zherdev, with his third goal in as many games, and Rostislav Klesla also scored for the Blue Jackets as their franchise-record five-game win streak ended.
"Our power play was good tonight," said Naslund who is playing despite a sore groin. "It's such a key thing the way the game's played now."
Bertuzzi, who scored on goalie Marc Denis's doorstep on a nice give-and-go with Brendan Morrison, said the victory was important because Columbus started three consecutive losses on Vancouver's seven-game road trip.
"It ruined a little bit of our road trip," said Bertuzzi as blood oozed from a dressing under his right eye.
"(Losing) started in Columbus and continued the trend but overall we did the right things (tonight) and got a much-needed two points. It shows that when you work hard and you do what we're supposed to do, you get results like that."
Nash said the Jackets almost pulled the game out despite the 4-0 first-period deficit.
"I think we outplayed them in the second two periods," he said. "Any time you come back from a 4-0 lead and give yourselves a chance to win it's a pretty special thing."
"They had a good power play. We took some undisciplined penalties. In the new NHL power plays win games."
Denis played the first and third periods. Pascal Leclaire blanked the Canucks in the second period but Denis gave up seven goals on 22 shots after allowing only two on 65 shots against Calgary and Edmonton.
"(It was) a very frustrating night," said Denis whose club began the evening 18 points out of a Western Conference playoff berth. "One of those nights where it just seemed like the puck didn't want to hit me.
"We had a great run here. We had a great five-game streak and we've got three games left before the (Olympic) break. We'll put this one behind us and try to hopefully start another five-game winning streak soon."
Notes: Auld earned his second assist of the season on Ohlund's goal. ... Canuck defenceman Nolan Baumgartner missed a second game with a bruised left foot. ... AHL Manitoba call-up Tomas Mojzis continued in his lineup spot. ... Defenceman Bryan Berard, who leads the Jackets with 11 power-play goals, missed a third game with a back sprain. ... Columbus concluded a three-game road trip ... The Canucks play four games in seven nights during their pre-Olympics homestand