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A New Look For Columbus
by Paul on 07/04/08 at 08:00 AM ET
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from Bob Hunter of the Columbus Dispatch,
Remember, this is about winning. Kristian Huselius, the free-agent forward the Jackets signed after the Zherdev trade, is talented and appears to be a better fit for Hitchcock than Zherdev was. Raffi Torres, a winger who came to the Jackets in the Brule deal with the Oilers, definitely is.
With hard-checking free-agent defenseman Mike Commodore, those two big Rangers puck-movers (Tyutin and Christian Backman) and former Flyers winger R.J. Umberger, it’s obvious the Jackets now have the kind of players Hitchcock and Howson want, even if they’re not necessarily the best ones.
This is going to be a much different Blue Jackets team than previous ones. Given the record, it isn’t such a bad thing.
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Yes they are. Hitchcock has his methods and they work.
Posted by RWBill from the Old Dominion, waitin for Jan 31 Wings invasion on 07/04/08 at 10:05 AM ET
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