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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 01:28 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 07:53 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 03:35 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 08:33 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 09:12 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 07:33 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 08:50 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 08:42 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.

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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 01:37 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 08:58 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 06:40 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 09:23 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 08:52 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 12:57 PM 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 01:29 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 11:53 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 09:41 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 04:08 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 10:15 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.

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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 10/26/07 at 12:33 AM 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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The Other Team In Columbus

by Paul on 10/25/07 at 03:40 PM ET
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from The Other Paper,

Nash, an alternate captain, spent less than three minutes Sunday answering questions about the Jackets’ ineffective power play. Then the media horde—all seven reporters—moved across the room to see what team captain Adam Foote had to say.

In contrast, just three miles or so to the north, five times that number of reporters gather for comments from Ohio State’s quarterback every week. In fact, more reporters gang up on OSU’s third-string running back than on Nash at home games.

Playing hockey in Columbus is no way to become a celebrity. If Nash were playing in Canada, there’s no doubt he’d have fame to match his $5.5 million salary. It’s common for 30 TV cameras to crowd into Air Canada Centre in Toronto after Maple Leafs games.

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Wayne Gretzky on Rick Nash

by Alanah McGinley on 10/10/07 at 02:32 PM ET
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From the Puck-Rakers at The Columbus Dispatch,

Following morning skate on Wednesday, Gretzky offered his assessment of Nash:

“There are few guys in the league of that caliber at power forward. He goes to the net and sees the ice extremely well. Good goal scorers have one thing in common: They love to score, they can never score enough.

“Everyone likes to score, but good goals scorers love to score. There is no question (Nash) loves to score goals.

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