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Nash Now A Part Of Columbus
by Paul on 07/05/09 at 07:33 AM ET
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from Bob Hunter of the Columbus Dispatch,
It’s intriguing to contemplate where the eight-year, $62.4 million contract Rick Nash signed with the Blue Jackets leads.
Nash is an excellent player, obviously, or he couldn’t have commanded those kinds of numbers. He is the team captain, an NHL All-Star and, hopefully, a major piece of a championship puzzle. In the near term and long term, this hockey marriage bodes well.
Nash has given the team and this city the kind of celebrity endorsement every business covets. When NHL free agents and Blue Jackets draft picks try to decide where to spend their futures, there is no stronger signal than the one the strapping winger gave with this signing. The signal is an emphatic thumbs-up, both for the franchise and the city.
But hockey is only part of it. Nash is about to become the kind of athlete we’ve never had here, one who spends most or all of his athletic career in the city, playing for a local team.
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This is a nice article - I never thought about what it would mean to a team to have an athlete spend his career there, if they had never had someone who did before. That has to be a pretty comfortable feeling for Jackets fans to know that he will be there for so much longer to be the cornerstone of their team as it gets better and starts winning in the playoffs.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 07/05/09 at 09:04 AM ET