Bethany's Hockey Rants
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Game 1, Two Points
by Bethany on 10/04/09 at 08:51 PM ET
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The Columbus Blue Jackets opened their season against the Minnesota Wild. It was an amazing game. The Jackets were tentative at first, but eventually got their act together and got the win.
With the new season, I’m changing my post game format.
The Hot:
*Umberger getting the short-handed goal. Not to mention the first goal of the season for the Blue Jackets.
*Steve Mason picking right up where he left off.
*Hitchcock is still getting great cheers from the fans, I love that man.
*Rusty Klesla getting a goal on the day he signed an extension. (More on this later)
*Voracek is huge. It was my first time seeing this kid since last season, wow.
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Commodore Out for the Home Opener
by Bethany on 10/03/09 at 10:36 AM ET
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The Blue Jackets will open their season against the Minnesota Wild. They will be doing it without Mike Commodore. He has been placed on IR with a groin pull according to Puck-Rakers. Roy has been called up from Syracuse. It’s a huge loss for the Blue Jackets, but let’s just hope that he isn’t out for a long period of time.
Now to the home opener. It should be a great game. There is some bad blood between the Wild and the Jackets, going back to the preseason when Eric Belanger boarded Chimera. Belanger did apologize for the hit, but Chimera is standing his ground saying it was a dirty hit. However, I think Boll said it best:
“It’s always in the back of your head,” Boll said. “We know who did it and we know what happened, but we can’t let that get in the way of getting two points. This is a huge year for the franchise and we want to get off on the right foot and that’s with a win, not trying to get back at somebody.”
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Power Play Struggles
by Bethany on 11/17/08 at 02:37 PM ET
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Sorry that it took me so long to get this up, but I just had to take some time to think about the game against the Wild. It’s not that I’m not impressed with what the Jackets showed against the Minnesota Wild the other night. I really was impressed. It’s just taking it to a shootout and then losing is all too familiar for me. I know we have other things (POWER PLAY) to work on, but shouldn’t we at least try to score on the shootout? Mason can’t stop them all ya know.
We came out of the weekend with three out of a possible four points. That is GREAT! We played hard, and were rewarded for our efforts. I do have to wonder where we could be if our power play actually got going. Granted we weren’t really given an opportunity on the power play against the Wild, but against other teams, we have been.
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Pazzy Injured and a Loss
by Bethany on 10/26/08 at 11:48 AM ET
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Pascal Leclaire was injured in the first period and left with 14:33 remaining in the second, due to an apparent ankle sprain. It’s going to be looked at again today, and his status is unknown for tomorrow’s game against the Anaheim Ducks is unknown. If Leclaire is out expect LaCosta to come back up, and Norrena to get the start on Tuesday.
Anyway, onto the game. The Blue Jackets took three penalties in the first period and were able to kill them all off, unfortunately for the Blue Jackets, they let in a goal towards the end of the first period. It’s never a good thing when you give up a goal in the last minute of a period. The Minnesota Wild stayed perfect on the penalty kill last night. Of course they only took two penalties, but man in six games they have not allowed one power play goal, that is impressive.
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The Glass is Half Full
by Bethany on 10/25/08 at 04:19 PM ET
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Okay, so the loss last night was bad and our team desperately needs to change things up a bit to start playing well. However, it is not the end of the world, and just because we have lost 4 out of 7 games doesn’t mean we’re going to miss the playoffs. We’re playing our eighth game tonight, it is EARLY in the season. Way too early to be bringing up things like your prediction for the playoffs. I am surprised at some of the messages I have been receiving thinking that the sky is falling, you’d think that we were in the same position as the Flyers who just won their first game last night. I know our team hasn’t played a complete hockey game yet, but it will happen.
Anyway, now that’s out of the way. We’re playing the Minnesota Wild tonight and Pascal Leclaire is in net again tonight. The defensive pairings stay the same, and here are the forward lines.
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Victory against the Wild!
by Bethany on 10/04/08 at 10:38 AM ET
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Wow, what an amazing game! Okay, so maybe it wasn’t the most exciting first period, but it was great to see our team working as a team. Here are some random tidbits from the game.
I said this before, Pazzy sprained an ankle when Boogaard went into the net. Hitchcock said in his post game that Pazzy could have finished the game, but they put Norrena in just to be safe. Umberger took a slash to the finger, he will be back practicing with the team on Tuesday. Leclaire will be back practicing with the team also Tuesday. Hitch also said that the team will be back to 100% aside from Torres come Tuesday. Boll did have an ice pack on his hand in the locker room after the game, I don’t know what is going on with him and, I am sure we will be updated today.
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Live from Nationwide Arena
by Bethany on 10/03/08 at 06:48 PM ET
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I’m here, I made it to Columbus!! I will update during the game!
There aren’t too many fans here, but the one’s that are, are being quite loud.
Also, did I mention that this is my first preseason game...ever. Because, if I didn’t, it totally is.
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Lineup for the game!
by Bethany on 10/03/08 at 12:23 PM ET
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The Blue Jackets have announced their lineup for the game tonight against the Minnesota Wild. We are icing a team of mostly regulars. Below is the lineup for the Jackets and the Wild. Also, remember I will be liveblogging the game, as best I can tonight, so any comments are appreciated!
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