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Can Blue Jackets Adapt To Change?
by Paul on 09/05/10 at 07:55 AM ET
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from Aaron Portzline of Puck-rakers,
Blue Jackets coach Scott Arniel obviously knows the game of hockey and the NHL, having played the sport as a professional for 17 seasons. He has a decade of coaching experience, the last four seasons as a head coach in the American Hockey League. No question he’s ready and qualified to guide an NHL club.
But think about the message sent when the fourth-worst club in the NHL makes exactly one roster change the following off-season, and that change is claiming a third- or fourth-line winger (Ethan Moreau) off waivers.
Basically, the message is that Ken Hitchcock is to blame for all that ailed the Blue Jackets in 2009-10, that a fresh, energetic, uplifting approach from the new coach and his similarly dispositioned assistants can make up 16 points and six spots in the Western Conference standings.
Arniel plans to play a puck-possession, high-tempo style that most players prefer, a style that is in stark contrast to the retreat-and-react style drummed home the previous three-plus seasons in Columbus.
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