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Has Nash Had Enough Of Columbus?
by Paul on 02/06/12 at 06:18 PM ET
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from John Shannon of Sportsnet,
Sportsnet has been running the HOCKEY CENTRAL Trade Tracker for a few weeks now in anticipation of the Feb. 27 deadline. It comes as no surprise that some of the players discussed will not be moved. And I think we’ve been pretty honest in saying that. But one player who just might be in the mix is Columbus Blue Jackets winger Rick Nash, who continually plays down the fact he will never ask for a trade.
I have received a couple of calls from friends of Nash, who claim that Rick is very unhappy with the way the franchise is going and realizes it will take five more years to rebuild, again. Nash is now telling people close to him that he would entertain being moved, but still will not be the one who asks for a trade.
Always one who didn’t aspire to play in a big market with big pressure, it appears Nash now realizes that he might have to step into the spotlight in order to win. It is a very tough situation for a very classy player.
Monday afternoon, Scott Howson was kind enough to reply to my inquiry with the following: “John, I am not commenting on any rumours between now and deadline.”
read on for more hockey notes…
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Afternoon Line
by Paul on 11/18/11 at 12:37 PM ET
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After having watched him play another uninspired game for the Columbus Blue Jackets, I can’t help but think that a trade would be beneficial for both player and club. Let’s face it. The ship has sailed on Columbus. Their season is already over. With just under 20 games played, they are on pace for less than 15 wins for the season.
-Mike Milbury on Rich Nash of the Columbus Blue Jackets. More from Milbury on this topic at CBC.
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Nash Not Moving
by Paul on 11/17/11 at 03:42 PM ET
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from Pierre LeBrun of ESPN,
Although the Columbus Blue Jackets continue to work the phones looking for a netminder, one name that is not involved in their talks is that of captain Rick Nash.
“Not once have I ever brought up his name,” Jackets GM Scott Howson told ESPN.com Thursday.
Sure, other teams have obviously inquired about Nash, but Howson has quickly closed that down.
For his part, Nash hasn’t asked to get out, either.
“Rick has never asked for a trade, contrary to what has been reported,” his agent Joe Resnick told ESPN.com on Thursday. “Rick is focused on trying to turn things around in Columbus and help the team get some wins.”
read on for notes on Toronto, Dallas, Washington and Nashville…
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Pressure On Nash In Columbus
by Paul on 11/17/11 at 01:17 AM ET
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from Dan Rosen of NHL.com,
He is the face of a struggling franchise that has become the butt of several poor-taste yet arguably just jokes. He is the captain and the guy that is in the second of an eight-year contract that pays him $62.4 million. He is the leader of a franchise that has never won a playoff game and has gone 3-13-1 to start the season.
“When you win, everyone looks at leadership and thinks they have great leadership,” Nash said. “When you lose, leadership always gets questioned. I understand that’s what comes along with being a captain. This is definitely the toughest times I’ve faced being a captain.”
What’s making this season so much more frustrating for Nash is he hasn’t been part of the solution. He has just four goals, 12 points and a paltry minus-12 rating, which ties him for 693rd place in the NHL this season. Only Eric Staal’s minus-17 is worse.
“The weight of the world is on his shoulders,” Blue Jackets GM Scott Howson said. “Particularly with the moves we made this summer it looked like we were adding some experienced players to help move it along, and now it hasn’t happened yet. He’s struggled with that.”
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Should Nash Ask Columbus To Move Him?
by Paul on 11/09/11 at 10:46 PM ET
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Each week, the NHL on TSN panel voices its opinions on the hot topics of the day in the Wednesday Night Hockey Quiz.
Question No. 2: Should Rick Nash request a trade out of Columbus both for his own sake and for the sake of the team?
(Aaron) Ward: Yes with an asterisk. Go through the season, endure it, take your time, make it look as if you’re processing it evaluating through the summer seeing where Columbus is going and what acquisitions they’ve made and then make that change. For the good of yourself and your team, Columbus should get a windfall of players and something back worthwhile and for him and the team they both need a fresh start.
(Marc) Crawford: No, I think Rick Nash is one of the top three or four power forwards in the game. If he played like he did in the Olympics, that would be what the Columbus Blue Jackets need. If they get that Rick Nash, why would they trade him? You look for those guys forever.
(Bob) McKenzie: A qualified yes. If the ownership in Columbus decides to clean house and get rid of general manager Scott Howson, they’ll be embarking on another direction. I don’t know if I were Rick Nash, I’d want to stick around for another direction because they’ll have their three year plan of how they want to do things. If they keep the general manager and Nash is part and parcel to that, I’d say stay and tough it out as best you can. If they go in a different direction, I’d say he should as well.
read on for questions 1 and 3- 1 being should the NHL talk to the victim before a suspension and 3 is should the NHL outlaw the zone defense we saw tonight in the Tampa/Philly game…
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Nash Feeling The Pressure
by Paul on 11/08/11 at 08:58 AM ET
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from Aaron Portzline of the Columbus Dispatch,
...when asked yesterday how he’s enduring the club’s latest follies — a 2-11-1 start and a 5-23-8 nose dive dating to last season — Nash did not pause to measure his words.
“It’s definitely been my toughest challenge as a captain, and really the toughest challenge of my career,” Nash said. “Things just aren’t going right.
“It’s not one player or a couple of players, it’s the whole team. And it’s my job to keep everybody together.”
Nash knows the deal. When the Blue Jackets go this far south, fans want GMs and coaches fired, players traded, and the “C” ripped off the captain’s sweater.
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Rich Nash Made His Decision
by Paul on 11/04/11 at 12:07 PM ET
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from Greg Brady of SN590 The Fan,
Rick Nash made a big “life” decision two summers ago. Soon after the 2009 July free agency period began, Nash, after seven full seasons in Columbus (after being drafted #1 overall from the London Knights in 2002), and the Jackets first playoff appearance (a sweep at the hands of the eventual Western Conference champions, the Red Wings), signed a $62.4 million/8 year extension. Nash could have been a free agent the following summer when July 1, 2010 struck — the same day Ilya Kovalchuk hit free agency. You remember Kovalchuk, right? Once one of the most feared wingers in the game? Four straight 40-goal seasons, including two where he topped 50? Yeah, I liked that guy. I’m sure he’s doing great wherever he is.
But watching the Maple Leafs embarrass the Blue Jackets in front of hundreds of Jackets’ faithful at Nationwide Arena last night, I got to wondering about Rick Nash and his motivation. That, in part, was precepitated by Nash appearing on our “Brady And Lang In The Morning” show Wednesday morning before the game. He sounded not terribly thrilled with how the Jackets are playing, their results, how they’re being accountable to each other, and to management and who could blame him. Since that contract was extended and Nash pledged to be a Blue Jacket (a highly-paid one at that at $7.8 million/per year) until the end of the 2017-18 season, or until he’s 34. If he fulfills the contract, Nash will have played fifteen seasons in Columbus. Imagine it. Now stop shuddering. And this has NOTHING to do with the city or the fans. Just the opposite, in fact.
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Maybe Rick Nash Will Get Noticed Now
by Paul on 10/12/11 at 12:46 PM ET
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from Pierre LeBrun of ESPN,
Now, as he enters his ninth NHL season, Nash finally has a bona-fide, No. 1 center with him. It didn’t take too long, right? Nash doesn’t worry about the past. He’s pumped about this season and playing alongside Carter.
“To get Carter is huge,” said Nash. “It’s what [management] said they wanted to do and for them to do it is big.”
When Nash signed his extension, management made him a promise that they would leave no stone unturned in trying to make the team more competitive.
“The thing with Scott is that when he signed me to a long-term deal, he showed me his plan and what he planned to do to the team over the few years,” said Nash. “He’s owning up to it. It’s what he told me he would do. It’s just exciting to see the owner spending money and willing to bring top players in here to win.”
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Rick Nash The Best Pro In Ohio
by Paul on 10/06/11 at 06:02 AM ET
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from Tom Reed of the Cleveland Plain Dealer,
Rick Nash is arguably the most accomplished athlete playing for an Ohio pro sports franchise.
Among the state’s best, he might also be its most anonymous.
Such is reality for the Blue Jackets’ 27-year-old captain: a player regarded as elite in NHL circles and obscure in the minds of Cleveland and Cincinnati fans with little hockey intellect and enough losing teams.
Never mind that Nash has made more All-Star appearances than Reds slugger Joey Votto and has graced as many video-game covers as Browns running back Peyton Hillis. Or, that he exhibits the modesty and loyalty that fans say they still desire in their heroes.
The combination of his sport’s 60-watt appeal in the United States and his team’s inability to win with regularity has stunted the popularity of the six-time 30-goal scorer.
I wonder how many hockey players would receive such a tag. Does the same hold true in your state?
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Carter & Nash Ready To Roll
by Paul on 09/16/11 at 06:36 PM ET
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from Pierre LeBrun of ESPN,
It got going Friday with the opening of camp at Nationwide Arena, where players underwent medicals before they take the ice for the first time Saturday. Coach Scott Arniel didn’t waste any time confirming that Carter would begin camp centering fellow star Rick Nash. Where it goes from there is up to the two big guys.
“That’s something I’ve been looking forward to all summer,” said Carter. “I got to play with some pretty good players in Philly, but to play with a guy like Rick is taking it to a whole new level. I’m definitely excited and hopefully we can build some chemistry quickly and get things rolling.”
Nash has only had to wait nearly a decade to get to line up with a center of Carter’s ilk. Not that he ever complained. But after being a one-man show for so many years here in Columbus, which simplified the other team’s defensive scheme, help has arrived.
“To get Carter is huge,” Nash told ESPN.com on Friday. “Ownership stepped up big time; they showed they want to win. It’s what they said they wanted to do, and for them to do it is big.”
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Right on the Wing
by Ian Gooding on 08/31/11 at 08:00 AM ET
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We’ll kick off our look at the top forwards in fantasy with a listing of the top options at the right wing position.
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Rick Nash Can’t Draw A Call
by Paul on 12/09/10 at 08:28 AM ET
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from Michael Arace of the Columbus Dispatch,
Nash has 241 goals and 442 points in 542 career games. He has a Rocket Richard Trophy (leading goal scorer) and an Olympic gold medal. He is a player of stature. Yet, he is treated by referees as a third-line grinder. It is not right.
On Saturday night, the Pittsburgh Penguins were in town and Tyler Kennedy slew-footed Nash as the puck dropped on the opening faceoff. No call. Moments later, Sidney Crosby applied a two-handed slash - Carew-like, if not Ruthian - to the hands of Marc Methot. No call. And moments after that, Chris Clark touched Crosby with his stick - and went off to the box for slashing.
Crosby remains infamous for crying bloody murder during his rookie season a few years back. Good for him. In the NHL, whining is sometimes rewarded - and under certain circumstances, it should be. Crosby deserves the benefit. He’s the best player in the league, he has the puck all the time and he should be protected. Fans don’t pay to see him carved to the ice.
Why was Nash allowed to be felled? He’s not Crosby, but he’s not Matt Cooke, either. Come on already.
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JJ’s Three Cheers: 10/21/10
by Jon Jordan on 10/21/10 at 08:33 AM ET
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Today’s three cheers for last night’s top performers in NHL action:
***Cheers to Chicago’s Marty Turco, who made 36 saves and held the fort for the ‘Hawks in the shootout for a 2-1 decision over the Vancouver Canucks. Turco only had to make one save in the breakaway tiebreaker, on Mikael Samuelsson, but Roberto Luongo stopped none at the other end and the Blackhawks earned the extra point in turn. Luongo was good during the actual game, making 31 saves of his own and earning third star honors, but what’s going on with his early season numbers? A 3.38 goals-against and an .888 save percentage isn’t exactly the Bobby Lu Canucks fans expect, nor is the 2-3-2 mark for their club. Surely, it’s only a matter of time before he (and the team) turns it around. (Right?)
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Handling The UFA Process
by Paul on 07/07/10 at 10:04 AM ET
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from Aaron Portzline of Puck-rakers,
As the LeBron James saga has played out over the last many months, the mind keeps drifting back to one year ago, when Blue Jackets captain Rick Nash decided to sign an extension and avoid a circus.
Yes, James is a global superstar. (I feel greasy even typing those words.) He is known on every continent and is marketable to myriad demographics. Nash, meanwhile, is a star in central Ohio, in Canada and among NHL fans. Big difference.
But there’s also a big difference in how the athletes have handled the process, and Columbus isn’t even Nash’s hometown.
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Morning Line
by Paul on 03/24/10 at 09:22 AM ET
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“I don’t think anyone anticipated us having the season we’ve had. It’s really frustrating because everyone has the same goal in this League and it’s to win. When you can’t do it and you’ve been somewhere for a long time, it gets frustrating.”
“I believe in this team, I believe in this franchise and I believe in the ownership and management. I think we have good young players who will only get better in the upcoming seasons.”
-Rick Nash of the Columbus Blue Jackets, More from Mike G. Morreale of NHL.com.
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Will A Gold Medal Have an Effect On Rick Nash’s Game?
by Paul on 03/02/10 at 07:30 AM ET
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from Rob Oller of the Columbus Dispatch,
A painting of Rick Nash hangs in the office of Blue Jackets interim coach Claude Noel, an abstract piece of art in which one would struggle to identify the player within the frame.
The picture perfectly captures Nash’s career. Seven seasons in Columbus and Jackets fans still are not exactly sure what to make of the team’s best player. He is an enigma wrapped in a CBJ sweater.
Is Nash a top-15 player in the league? Sometimes. Is the Blue Jackets’ captain an effective leader? Maybe. This much is clear: Nash is a nice guy and ever-improving playmaker who might simply need a healthy dose of big-time success to finally bring his work into focus.
Winning Olympic gold as a member of Team Canada may well be that dose.
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Nash Looking For Goals
by Paul on 01/16/10 at 10:43 AM ET
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from Tom Reed of the Columbus Dispatch, T
he last time Rick Nash went 11 games without scoring a goal, the Blue Jackets winger was a rookie playing on a line with Mike Sillinger and Grant Marshall.
In the fall of 2002, the baby-faced Nash was making $1.2 million a season for a fledgling franchise while most of central Ohio was enamored of the promise of another 18-year-old, named Maurice Clarett.
Times, fortunes and expectations have changed.
The Blue Jackets enter today’s game against Chicago as an underachieving club searching for goals and wins. During one of their worst stretches, Nash has struggled right alongside his teammates.
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Captain Nash
by Paul on 11/23/09 at 03:37 PM ET
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from Dan Rosen of NHL.com,
“Rick started off as a quiet guy who knew right from wrong but didn’t say very much, and now he speaks up,” Hitchcock said Monday morning from Madison Square Garden, where his team will play the New York Rangers later in the evening. “If he doesn’t like what is happening, he’ll more than speak up. He has made for a very good captain. He is really emerging as a strong leader in the NHL community.”
Hitchcock nodded his head in agreement when asked if Nash seems way more comfortable this year than last. Nash didn’t stumble on his words when describing the difference, which he believes is massive.
“At first it was just tough to walk down to the room and say something, but as the time goes on you start feeling more comfortable and you get a better relationship with each other,” Nash told NHL.com. “If I need anything relayed from the players I can go down there no problem. He’s a pretty easy guy to talk to and he’s pretty open with me, too. He lets me know what’s going on in the coach’s room and what he’s thinking for game plans and upcoming events, things like that.”
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Nash On One Leg
by Paul on 11/14/09 at 08:32 AM ET
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Aaron Portzline of Puck-rakers describes the Rich Nash shootout winner…
Nash caught a rut, teetered (smoothly), stuck his left foot in the air as if searching for a fire hydrant and went roof.
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Rick Nash Can Take It To The Next Level
by Paul on 08/24/09 at 12:28 PM ET
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from Ryan Kennedy of The Hockey News,
Nash has increased his point total every season since the lockout. With Columbus confident and more offensively balanced, I think we can finally see the power forward hit the numbers players of his skill level are capable of posting.
to find out how, read on....
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It Is All About Winning Now For Nash
by Paul on 07/11/09 at 06:53 AM ET
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from Aaron Portzline of the Columbus Dispatch,
When the contract expires—after the 2017-18 season—Nash will be 34 years old, a 15-year NHL veteran, most likely an 11-year captain of the Blue Jackets and in the latter stages of what could be a Hall of Fame career. The 25-year-old chuckled yesterday when asked if he’d picked out a spot for his statue on Nationwide Plaza, but that’s the trajectory his career is on.
“One of the things that Scott (Howson, Blue Jackets general manager) mentioned repeatedly during this process is that the organization sees me as their Steve Yzerman,” Nash said, “a guy who is loyal to the organization and a longtime leader. That appealed to me, too, obviously.
“When you look at the championship teams … they always seem to have (a consistent) captain, whether it’s Sidney Crosby, Nicklas Lidstrom, Steve Yzerman or Joe Sakic. I think it’s especially important for the homegrown talent to be that guy.”
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Nash Makes A Statement
by Paul on 07/06/09 at 02:35 PM ET
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from Aaron Portzline of Puck-Rakers at the Columbus Dispatch,
“A lot of people here in Toronto were counting on the hometown boy to somehow end up playing in Toronto,” Nash said. “But I wanted to make a statement—about how much I appreciate the McConnell family, everybody with the Blue Jackets, the fans and the guys in the room.
“The last five or six years, I’ve really enjoyed living and playing Columbus. I said that all along, but a lot of people aren’t going to believe that until the contract is signed.”
Nash said last Friday was a big night in his life. Yes, he signed a deal that will pay him more money than some of us can imagine. But the contract was consummated while hanging out at his summer retreat in Northern Ontario with five of his best friends.
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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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Putting The Nash To Toronto Talk To Bed
by Paul on 07/04/09 at 08:12 AM ET
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One of the postives coming out of the Rich Nash signing, we no longer have to hear Nash headed to Toronto…
from Mike Zeisberger of the Toronto Sun,
After efforts by the Maple Leafs to land the Sedin twins and Richmond Hill native Mike Cammalleri fell short earlier this week, there were hopes throughout the city that Brampton’s Rick Nash might somehow be wooed to Toronto when he became eligible to be an unrestricted free agent on July 1, 2010.
Columbus Blue Jackets officials were said to be well aware of the chatter north of the border—talk spearheaded by FAN-590/Sportsnet analyst Doug MacLean, the man who drafted Nash first overall in 2002—suggesting a marriage between Nash and the Leafs would make perfect sense down the road.
So much for those aspirations.
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Nash Signs
by Paul on 07/03/09 at 06:33 PM ET
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via Adam Portzline of Puck-rakers,
The Blue Jackets have signed captain Rick Nash to an eight-year, $62.4 million contract extension, The Dispatch has learned. That’s an annual cap hit of $7.8 million.
The deal will keep Nash under contract with the Blue Jackets through the 2017-18 season.
added 8:36pm,
COLUMBUS, OHIO — The Columbus Blue Jackets have signed team captain Rick Nash to an eight-year contract extension that begins in 2010-11 and continues through the 2017-18 National Hockey League season, club General Manager Scott Howson announced tonight. As is club policy, terms were not disclosed.
“Rick is a Blue Jacket. He is our captain, the foundation of our team and one of the elite players in the National Hockey League and we are very happy that he will continue to call Columbus home for many years to come,” said Howson. “This is an important and exciting day for our franchise and our fans.”
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Nash Contract Talk
by Paul on 07/03/09 at 07:50 AM ET
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via Aaron Portzline of Puck-Rakers,
A source has told The Dispatch that the two sides “are not that far apart at all.” Hard to say, though, how difficult that ground will be to cover.
Word is that two contracts have been discussed—a seven-year deal that would pay between $8 million and $9 million per season, and a 10-year deal that would pay between $7.5 million and $8.5 million. Looks like a no-movement clause is part of the package, too.
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Rick Nash Contract Extension Talks Start Off On The Wrong Foot
by Paul on 07/02/09 at 07:42 AM ET
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from Aaron Portzline of Puck-rakers at the Columbus Disptach,
After an early-evening meeting with his agent, Joe Resnick, Nash told The Dispatch last night that the initial offer from Blue Jackets general manager Scott Howson yesterday fell short of what he had in mind.
“Things didn’t line up the way I anticipated them lining up,” Nash said. “I thought we had a solid chance of getting (a contract) done, especially with all the interest they said they had going into this.
“If this doesn’t happen in the next week, and we can’t hit a number where we’re both satisfied and we both feel it’s fair … if they want me that bad, they’ll get it done.”
Neither Howson nor Nash would reveal specifics in the contract, but sources indicated to The Dispatch that the offer had a five-year term.
I am a bit surprised Nash would say anything after the first day of negotiations.
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Blue Jackets Start Talking Nash Contract
by Paul on 06/30/09 at 12:37 PM ET
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Rich Nash’s agent states they will be listening to the Jackets offer and hopefully a deal can be worked out.
Read the AP story via USA TODAY.
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Will Rick Nash Stay Or Go?
by Paul on 06/17/09 at 07:58 AM ET
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from Michael Arace of the Columbus Dispatch,
The captain celebrated his 25th birthday yesterday. He has one year remaining on his contract. Beginning July 1, the Jackets can negotiate an extension. Conventional wisdom dictates Nash will re-up this summer or take dead aim at free agency next year—and if the latter course is taken, he will have to be traded, sooner or later, to salvage some value.
One would like to think that Nash wants to stay put. He has said he likes the direction of the team under general manager Scott Howson and coach Ken Hitchcock. He is involved in an assortment of community and charitable projects. He is a quiet sort who does not necessarily miss the din of larger and more rabid markets. He identifies with Blue Jackets fans, and they with him.
While these things will be taken into account, they pale when compared to the import of the contract itself. The next deal Nash signs will likely be the biggest of his career, not only because it will express his desire about where he wants to play, but because he might never again be in a position to make such a monetary windfall.
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Rick Nash On His Future
by Paul on 04/24/09 at 05:40 PM ET
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from Tom Reed of Puck-rakers,
Blue Jackets captain Rick Nash has one more season remaining on his current contract. Jackets management can begin negotiating with Nash starting on July 1. Here are some Nash comments from an interview today….
Q: So the businessman in you can make no guarantees regarding a possible re-signing?
A: “You can’t make a guarantee you will be back. It’s tough to say. I can’t say ‘I guarantee I’m going to be here.’ You don’t know what’s going to happen, you don’t know what direction they are going to want to go or what direction I want to go. We’ll wait and see. Initially, I want to be in Columbus, but there is a business side to hockey and I’ll have to weigh my options.”
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Nash Drawing Wings Toughest Defenders
by Paul on 04/17/09 at 08:23 PM ET
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from Dave Waddell of the Windsor Star,
Though it’s a team game, Rick Nash knows if he doesn’t win his personal battle the war we’ll be lost for his Columbus Blue Jackets.
For within the Jackets playoff series against the Detroit Red Wings, there is going to be the game within the game.
“It is quite different,” said Nash of lining up against the same guy for potentially seven straight games.
“Little rivalries start even if there already is one.
“You’re playing each other every other night pretty much. Guys start battling one another. “Guys start remembering what you did in the last game. It’s going to be fun and be tough.”
In Detroit’s 4-1 victory Thursday, round one of the battle went convincingly to the Wings as they held Nash to four harmless shots and kept him to the perimeter.
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You Can’t Run Rich Nash
by Paul on 03/29/09 at 07:52 AM ET
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from Tom Reed of Puck-rakers,
Last night, after Rick Nash was steamrolled by T.J. Oshie, the smallest player on the ice was the first responder with his team trailing the Blues 3-1 early in the third period. Kris Russell, all 5-foot-10, 180 pounds of him, went after Oshie. The hit produced a wild scrum and landed Russell in the box for four minutes (double minor, roughing). Oshie went for two minutes.
The entire sequence seemed to wake up the Jackets who responded with two quick goals from Kristian Huselius and Nash to tie it. The Jackets eventually lost 4-3 in a shootout, but coach Ken Hitchcock was proud of the response on individual and collective levels.
more on the Blue Jackets…
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Rick Nash Activated
by Paul on 01/18/09 at 03:44 PM ET
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COLUMBUS, OHIO – The Columbus Blue Jackets have activated left wing Rick Nash off injured reserve and have assigned forward Craig MacDonald to the Syracuse Crunch, Columbus’ American Hockey League affiliate, club General Manager Scott Howson announced January 18.
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Nash Goes On IR
by Paul on 01/12/09 at 10:59 AM ET
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COLUMBUS, OHIO – The Columbus Blue Jackets have placed forward Rick Nash on Injured Reserve retroactive to January 6 and recalled forward Derek MacKenzie from the Syracuse Crunch, the club’s American Hockey League affiliate, Blue Jackets General Manager Scott Howson announced today.
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NHL Teleconference with Rick Nash
by Alanah McGinley on 01/08/09 at 03:13 PM ET
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Today, Columbus Blue Jackets forward Rick Nash participated in a NHL teleconference with the media. Here is a transcript of that Q&A session.
Q. What defenseman, past or present, has presented you with your biggest challenge?
RICK NASH: I’m going to say Chris Pronger. Pretty tough guy to play against. Adam Foote has been really tough. It was nice when we had him on our team. You know, usually the bigger, stronger guys are usually the guys I find tough to play against.
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Nash Out For Columbus
by Paul on 01/06/09 at 08:55 PM ET
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Rick Nash slid into the boards during the first period of the Columbus/Wings game tonight.
He made it through the first period but is doubtful for the rest of the night, getting ice treatments to his ankle.
added 10:25pm, Puck-rakers is saying it is not an ankle injuiry as reported earlier.
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Rick Nash Ready To Lead Columbus
by Paul on 09/29/08 at 11:57 AM ET
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from Dan Rosen of NHL.com,
“I think last season was the first season teams actually started taking us serious,” Nash said. “We weren’t as consistent as we wanted to be, but you could sense that teams were taking us serious. We’re the only team to not make the playoffs (in the NHL), but with Ken Hitchcock as our coach, now teams are watching us and that puts us on the map.
“We’re lucky for how patient our fans are already, but we have to show them a good product and start winning to get the whole city excited.”
Nash appears ready to lead the surge.
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Behind The Scenes With Rick Nash
by Paul on 09/11/08 at 12:29 PM ET
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Watch below for behind the scenes action in the making of NHL 2K9 with Rick Nash.
I deleted the vid, it was crashing Firefox, instead, here is the link to watch...
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All Rick Nash
by Paul on 08/22/08 at 10:53 AM ET
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from Ryan Dixon of the Hockey News,
He took some time to talk with THN.com about a variety of topics, including how he spent his summer, his connection with an old minor hockey coach and his thoughts on the Blue Jackets’ busy off-season….
THN.com: It has been a busy off-season for the Jackets, adding players such as Kristian Huselius and R.J. Umberger. What’s your take on your team’s moves this summer?
RN: It’s been good. We added a lot of depth to our team and a lot of strength. It should be good, we got some scoring up front. I guess you’ll never really know until the season starts and you see how guys gel together, but on paper it looks pretty good.
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Nash Would Stay In Columbus If Everything Lines Up Right
by Paul on 07/25/08 at 08:41 AM ET
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from Tom Reed of the Columbus Dispatch,
The franchise’s most marketable player lauded the offseason roster makeover but made no declarations about his long-range future here other than to express his continued affinity for his adopted hometown. He labeled the coming season a “huge year” in terms of franchise growth.
“It’s always in your head obviously about (where) your following years will be,” said Nash, who scored 38 goals last season. “I’m happy in Columbus; I love it in Columbus. I would stay here if everything lined up right.”
Reaching the playoffs for the first time in franchise history might make Nash’s decision easier and possibly curb speculation that he plans to bolt for a larger market such as Toronto.
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Rick Nash in Video Game Action
by Alanah McGinley on 05/30/08 at 03:08 PM ET
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Nash was on hand, even as the Stanley Cup Finals are still in progress, because he’s the cover star for 2K Sports’ forthcoming hockey video game, NHL 2K9. And he was here, in this small studio in a non-descript office park for an all-day motion-capture filming session for the game.
The idea is that by filming several dozen of Nash’s moves—shots, skating tricks, dekes and more—with special motion-capture cameras, 2K Sports—a division of Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive—will be able to incorporate some of what it calls Nash’s “signature” moves into the game.
That’s why 2K Sports has set up 56 of the motion-capture cameras all around the studio, on the ceiling and close to the floor: Together, they can take all the data they record and stitch it together into a realistic representation of Nash’s real-life movements.
lots more at CNet here and here
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Nash to be Named Columbus Captain
by Alanah McGinley on 03/12/08 at 09:15 AM ET
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From the Columbus Dispatch,
The Blue Jackets have called a late morning press conference at which time they are expected to name Rick Nash as the team’s new captain.
The franchise will not confirm this until the 11:45 a.m. gathering.
Coach Ken Hitchcock had planned to play out the balance of the schedule without a captain following the Feb. 26 trade of Adam Foote to Colorado.
continued…
Update 12:36pm ET: Nash was formally named captain. More from the Blue Jackets.
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Rick Nash- How Do You Do
by Paul on 01/18/08 at 07:58 AM ET
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Nash scores the game winner with 22 seconds left.
added 8:42am, from Puck-rakers,
With Coyotes’ D-men Keith Ballard and Derek Morris in front of him, Nash switched the puck from forehand to backhand no fewer than nine times. He shifted back and forth on this skates, lowered a shoulder and made his way past both Ballard and Morris, considered the Coyotes’ most reliable blue-liners.
Coyotes goaltender Mikael Tellqvist tried to poke-check the puck away. He got a piece of it, but the puck followed Nash, who settled it down and fired a wrister into the net before Tellqvist could recover.
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Morning Line
by Paul on 12/29/07 at 11:07 AM ET
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Nash, with anti-inflammatory medicine coursing through his veins, is expected to play tonight when the Blue Jackets face the Carolina Hurricanes in Nationwide Arena.
“I couldn’t swallow my own spit,” said Nash, who missed two games. “It’s hard to breathe, so you don’t have a lot of energy. You can’t do much. You can’t drink or eat because it hurts.”
more on the Blue Jackets at the Columbus Dispatch.
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Nash Still Learning The Finer Points
by Paul on 12/19/07 at 09:38 AM ET
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from the Calgary Herald,
The man entrusted with keeping Nash on the path to greatness is notorious taskmaster Ken Hitchcock. The veteran skipper draws a parallel between his prodigy and Flames star Jarome Iginla.
“The thing that Jarome figured out pretty early in his career,” said Hitchcock, “is that his personality, his play and his determination had an impact on everybody. His fight (with Ole-Kristian Tollefsen) turned around the (Dec. 1 Blue Jackets-Flames) game in Calgary. When he gets after people and gets nasty and determined, I think it influences everyone on the bench.
“Rick has shown that. Where Rick is still on the learning curve is when someone goes after him like a (Chris) Pronger or a (Zdeno) Chara, he’s got to learn to play through, which is very difficult to do…”
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Nash On The Same Page With Hitchcock
by Paul on 11/27/07 at 09:20 AM ET
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from the Edmonton Journal,
“You can get your workers to buy in every night,” Hitchcock said Monday. “But if you can get your skill guys to buy into that (defence-first system), that’s how you win.”
Nash readily admits he and his teammates have bought Hitchcock’s system, the one that drove sniper Brett Hull to distraction when he played under Hitchcock in Dallas.
And Hitchcock noted that, apart from his own tutelage, his charges have an ongoing living lab in how to play sound defence sitting right there atop the Central Division - the Detroit Red Wings.
“They’re the gold standard,” Hitchcock said of the Wings’ textbook all-around game. “(Pavel) Datsyuk and (Henrik) Zetterberg - they all check.”
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Open Practice
by Paul on 11/16/07 at 06:09 AM ET
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from the Columbus Dispatch,
The NHL, unlike other major sports leagues, does not have lucrative national television contracts. The Blue Jackets rely heavily on gate receipts and recognize the value of letting fans attend free practices in the Ice Haus adjacent to the arena.
“We’re not in a position to be losing fans,” left winger Rick Nash said.
Fans can learn a lot about the sport, Hitchcock said, by attending practices. Former Tampa Bay Lightning coach Terry Crisp used to run one session a season wearing a microphone to educate the crowd.
“To me, the most fun is watching how a team performs in practice and how the coach yells and how many swear words he uses,” Hitchcock said.
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Fighting Rick Nash
by Paul on 11/15/07 at 07:59 AM ET
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from the Columbus Dispatch,
What was Blue Jackets coach Ken Hitchcock thinking when he saw his best player dropping the gloves with a notorious knucklehead?
“I hope he doesn’t hurt his hand,” Hitchcock said.
And what was Nash thinking?
“It’s part of the game,” Nash said. “He (Vandermeer) threw a couple of cheap shots during the game, a couple of cross-checks. We fought. No big deal. Boller (Jared Boll) and Shell (Jody Shelley) fight all the time.”
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The “New” Zherdev
by Paul on 11/05/07 at 05:46 AM ET
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from Bob Hunter of the Columbus Dispatch,
Nash said as much when he was asked about the difference between the 2006 Zherdev and the 2007 model.
“I think the biggest thing is his work ethic,” Nash said. “He’s out there every single shift working 110 percent. And that was a team problem in general, not just him. Last year, a lot of the guys were taking nights off, myself included.”
Zherdev didn’t single-handedly hold the Blue Jackets below their potential, even if he seems to be a glistening example now. While the change in Zherdev’s play seems incredible, it likely started during the summer when Howson and coach Ken Hitchcock made a special trip to Ottawa to meet with Zherdev and his agent, Rollie Hedges.
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Rick Nash Highlight
by Alanah McGinley on 10/25/07 at 11:33 PM ET
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From Rusty Miller at the AP,
It was the type of move a player usually tries late in a long practice. The right situation presented itself in a game for Columbus’ Rick Nash, however, and it will undoubtedly be a staple on all the highlight shows.
Nash scored in his fifth straight game, this one an almost indescribable goal on a shot between his legs…
Watch the video…
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