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BREAKING: Don Waddell Resigns as Carolina Hurricanes GM, President

BREAKING: Days after the Carolina Hurricanes organization re-signed coach Rod Brind’Amour to a five-year deal, Carolina general manager and president Don Waddell resigned from his position, effective May 24, 2024. Eric Tulsky will serve as the organization’s interim GM as a full search is conducted.

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Damon Severson IIHF Team Canada

Catching Up With Blue Jacket’s Players in the IIHF World Championship Part Two

Last week I wrote an article detailing the Columbus Blue Jacket’s representation at the IIHF World Championship tournament. The five players that are participating are Elvis Merzlikins (Latvia), Damon Severson (Canada), Gavin Brindley (USA), Johnny Gaudreau (USA), and Zach Werenski (USA). As of Thursday, May 23, only one player from that list is moving on […]

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Johnny Gaudreau Celebrates Matt Boldy's goal for team USA at the 2024 IIHF World Championship

Catching Up With Blue Jacket’s Players in the IIHF World Championship

You may already know that there are nine different Columbus Blue Jacket‘s players or personnel at the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship in Czechia, but in case you haven’t been able to follow it here’s a few things to catch you up! Here’s a reminder of what players are at the tournament and the country […]

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Cayden Lindstrom from the Medicine Hat Tigers

Three Candidates for the Blue Jackets’ Fourth Overall Pick in the 2024 NHL Draft

Earlier this week, the 2024 NHL Draft Lottery was held, and the Columbus Blue Jackets are getting the fourth overall pick in this year’s draft. The San Jose Sharks were drawn for the first pick, and the Chicago Blackhawks received the second pick. The other 14 teams were ordered inversely from where their 2023-24 season […]

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NHL Draft Lottery balls

Quick Guide to the 2024 NHL Draft Lottery

The 2024 NHL Draft Lottery is set to take place on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, at the NHL Network’s studio in Secaucus, New Jersey. The 16 teams that find themselves in the draft lottery can move up in the draft, but only the top 11 can land a chance at drafting first overall later in […]

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Boone Jenner celebrates his 2nd NHL hat-trick

Blue Jackets 2023-2024 Season Player Grades: Boone Jenner

This is part four of the Columbus Blue Jackets Season Grades series. Previously, Johnny Gaudreau, Zach Werenski, and Kirill Marchenko were graded. This time it’s Captain Boone Jenner‘s turn. In the Johnny Gaudreau article, I detailed all of the criteria for the grades, but here’s a refresher: To address a question from the last article, […]

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Adam Fantilli after being selected by the Columbus Blue Jackets in the 2023 Draft

The 2024 Draft Lottery: What Blue Jackets Fans Need to Know

The season has ended and playoffs are underway which means the 2024 NHL Draft Lottery is just around the corner. The lottery will take place on Tuesday, May 7 at 7:00 PM EDT in Secaucus, New Jersey where the NHL Network’s studio is. Here are the odds of the five teams who finished at the […]

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Kirill Marchenko battling for the puck

Columbus Blue Jackets Player Grades: Kirill Marchenko

For part three of this series, Columbus Blue Jacket’s forward Kirill Marchenko gets his grade on his 2023-24 season performance. In the first two parts, I graded Johnny Gaudreau and Zach Werenski. You can find the grading criteria in the first link. Keep in mind these grades focus mainly on how well a player did […]

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Columbus Blue Jackets celebrating a goal

PHOTOS: Carolina Hurricanes vs. Columbus Blue Jackets – 04/16/2024

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Tuesday night, the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the visiting Carolina Hurricanes 6-3 in their final 2023-24 season game. Zach Werensky has two goals and two assists, and Luca Del Bel Belluz scored in his NHL debut for Columbus. Goaltender Jet Greaves, made 38 saves. Check out this photo gallery from Inside The Rink’s […]

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Luca Del Bel Belluz scoring his first goal in his first shift of his first NHL game

Columbus Blue Jacket’s Season Finale

It was an action-packed night for this season’s final game for the Blue Jackets at home against the Carolina Hurricanes. Luca Del Belluz and Gavin Brindley both made their NHL debuts. Longtime play-by-play announcer Jeff Rimer called his last game after 20 years of calling games for the Jackets. Zach Werenski tied the Blue Jackets […]

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