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Blue Jackets Need To Find Their Game
by Paul on 02/04/09 at 08:47 AM ET
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from Tom Reed of Puck-rakers,
The Jackets are as healthy as they have been in weeks – Steve Mason’s bout with mono aside—but they can’t seem to get their game back.
Jackets coach Ken Hitchcock was steamed and with good reason.
“It’s gonna have to change,” he said. “It’s going to change, immediately. We’re going to go back and play the way we did before, which was very successful. We have to get back to that. It’s going to be a drag for us to get it back to that. It’s the only way we can have success. If the players don’t recognize it now, they’ll recognize it by the time we go to Pittsburgh.”
Forward R.J. Umberger, who scored a power-play goal, and was the Jackets most noticeable player, had a similar take.
“We definitely waited,” he said.” We’re just not playing the style we were – aggressive, getting the puck in deep, just using our size and our speed to outwork them. We’re trying to play a skill game. In the third period we did everything right; we got it in deep, we got pucks to the net, we played hard, but sometimes you come up short when you just play one good period.”
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