The Jackets will make Bob Boughner assistant coach tomarrow. He has guided the Windsor Spitfires to the last two Memorial Cup trophies. He also played 10 years in the nhl. more later

The Blue Jackets have Claimed LW Ethan Moreau from the Oliers. Last year Moreau had 9 goal and 9 assist and 62 pims. Moreau is also in the last year of his contract.

Look for him to play on the 3rd line. Also don’t expect anything from the Jackets much at all in free agency. Most of the changes will come via trade.

We will take a look at the Jackets top 5 bigest draft bust. This list is just now as most of the Jackets draft pick are still very young as the Blue Jackets have only been around for ten year.

1. Alexandre Picard. He has been a huge bust for the Blue Jackets. The Jackets took him  8th in the 2004 draft. Picard has spend most of his time in the minors and was also traded to Phoenix at this years trade deadline. In 67 games in the NHL he has no goals and 2 assist.

2. Gilbert Brule. He was suppost to be the “future number one center” but that never paned out . Brule taken 6th in the 2005 draft was also traded. He was traded to Edmonton for Raffi Torres. Brule has started to show some good offence and defence skills since his trade to Oliers but for the Blue Jackets he was a bust. in 146 games with the Jackets Brule had 12 goals and 20 assist.

3.Nikolai Zherdev. Tho Zherdev did put up some good numbers with the Jackets he can still be called a bust. A couple of reasons he never showed any heart. Also he was traded like so many of other Blue Jacket first round pick’s he was traded to the New York Rangers. In 283 games with the Jackets Zherdev has 76 goals and 105 assist. Zherdev was the Jackets 4th pick in the 2003 draft.

4. Rostislav Klesla. The Blue Jackets first ever drat pick at 4th in the 2000 nhl draft. Klesla has been a bust also and he is the only one on this list who has not been traded yet.Klesla was called a “franchise defenseman” by the moron Doug MacLean. Klesla has been very injury prone. In 470 games Klesla has 38 goals and 85 assist and a plus minus of -60.

5.Pascal Leclaire. Was suppost to be the “:Franchise golie” but never panned out. Leclaire was also very injury proned. Was 8th pick in the 2001 draft. Leclaire in 159 games with Ottawa and the Jackets has 57 wins and 69 loses.

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Yesterday the Coulumbus Blue Jackets welcomed new Head Coach Scott Arniel to the team. After the team offered the Job to Guy Boucher and he turned them down Scott Howson said at press conference that 20 minutes after that happend he contacted Scott Arniel and he accpeted the job right away

Scott Arniel quotes

On achieving his second “hockey dream” …

“Growing up, my dream was to play in the NHL one day. I was fortunate enough to live that dream. The last 11 years, my dream was to get back to the NHL as a coach. The call from (Howson) yesterday actually had my jaw drop. It’s not the call I was expecting. It’s one of the happiest moments of my hockey career.”

On what he sees on the Blue Jackets’ roster …

“I talked to a lot of people around hockey and everybody had me pointed in this direction. There are other organizations looking for coaches, but this one really intrigued me. There’s lots of skill, lots of talent, and there’s lots of youth. There’s good experience in there, too, and great goaltending. There are lots of things to be excited about here.”

On dealing with being Howson’s second choice …

“I didn’t really care what happened to the other candidates.”

On his puck-possession philosophy …

“You work so hard to get the puck, you ought to try and keep it. You have to pay the price, but I want guys to show their skills. The areas where you can game-manage is how involved is your ‘D”, how much are they pinching? You’re trying to press the opposition in their own zone, trying to be mobile with your “D” as much as possible. Everybody’s sort of doing the same thing, but it’s the parameters you put on your players, how much do you say ‘you can go here, or you can’t go there?’ I want to loosen people up and let them play.”

On whether he favors a 1-2-2 or a 2-2-1 forecheck …

“That’s going to be part of what I get to figure out about this team. Is our left side such that we want to let our center and right side guys go? Do we have both of our wingers go in and go center on center and have those guys take it up the ice? I want to get a feel for the players we have here and talk to them before I have an answer for that.”

On whether Rick Nash will play left wing or right wing next season …

“That’s a conversation I’m going to have with Rick, see what he thinks. He’s a world-class player, so if he says he likes the right side better, we’ll have a conversation about that. If we get into a situation where I need him on the left, I’ll tell him the reasons why and we’ll go down that road.”

There were four players at the press conference Derek Dorsett,Jared Boll,Steve Mason,and John Moore.

Arniel get’s a 3 year deal.

One big problem that the Jackets face is the lack of leader ship in the locker room they tryed to adress this last year when they got Chris Clark  but i still belive that they still need more leadership or this team will not go anywere there is to many young guys on this team and this was a huge problem last year.

The Jackets also don’t have much cap to work with as they are loseing a lot of money every year. To improve this year they will have to get players proably though trade and or draft.

Arniel, 47, joins the Blue Jackets after spending four seasons as head coach of the American Hockey League’s Manitoba Moose, the top affiliate for the Vancouver Canucks. He led the club to a 181-106-33 record (.617) from 2006-10.

If the Jackets do not trade there draft pick (4th pick) i would love for them to draft either  D Erik Gudbranson, or Brett Connolly LW.

Gudbranson, 6’3 195 pounds Kingston (OHL)

				Connolly , LW 6’2 181   Team: Prince George (WHL) 2009-10 Prince George Cougars WHL 16 10 9 19 8

Also today the Columbus Blue Jackets signed center Tomas Kana to a one-year, two-way contract this morning. Kana would have been a restricted free agent on July 1.

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The Coulumbus Blue Jackets have offered there head coaching job to Guy Boucher the head coach of the Hamilton bulldogs the ahl team of Monteral. He has till tuesday to let them know if he accepts the job.

Here are some pros and cons of this.

cons

1. The Jackets are a young team Boucher is a young coach the Jackets don’t have very many leaders in this locker room all i’m saying is inexperince coach inexperince team.

2. will  he leave back for Monteral when they need a coach?

3. The system he uses is needed for a flee footed puck moveing d man, the jackets only have one Kris Russel.

4. only one year of professinal coaching.

Pros

1.He is young and can realte to the younger guys. and he is also known for being good a devlepoment.

If he does become the coach the Jackets will need to make some moves on the d core and this could also change who they draft.

so that is all for now

What do you think of this? have any pros or cons?

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UPDATE 4:27

Boucher has turned down the job\

Now on to who might get the job now i belive that Kevin Dineen is there guy and thats who i though it should of been from the beging.

so now it’s down to

Kevin Dineen

Claude Noel

Scott Arniel

Who do you think gets the job?

update 6:43

Scott Arniel has got the job more later.

The Columbus Blue Jackets who had a very disapointing season finishing 32-35-15 for 79 points.

Bigest dissapointments

Steve Mason

Derick Brassard

Mike Commodore

Bigest surprises

Antoine Vermette

Jackub Voracek

Derek Dorsett

A look to the off season i would like the Blue Jackets to pick Erik Gudbranson the 6’3 d man is what the Jackets imo need.He is a franchie defenceman that this team needs and can bulid around

Some free agents they shoud look at our

Paul Martin,Kim Johnsson,Matt Cullen,Patrick Marleau
 i would also not be surprised if the Jackets make  a trade for  a defenceman. They would need to trade so of thiers players who could be on the move are Klesla,Tyutin are the too defence man that could be one the move 

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Tonight the Columbus blue Jackets will play there last game of the season against the Detriot Red Wings. This is the projected starting line up for the Jackets.

Captain Rick Nash is a game time descion with a neck injury if he can’t go Tom Sestito will. This game the Jackets will be playing with 5 or 6 depending if Sestito plays players from the minors.

Steve Mason is geting the start tonight.

Now on to the coaching situtaion.

The dispatch has reported that the Jackets  Gm Scott Howson will interview 6 to 8 candidates.

I also belive that Kevin Dineen is the guy he is a former Jacket and his carrer ended here.

Here our other possiable candidates.

 Paul MacLean, a Red Wings assistant

Brent Peterson, a Predators assistant

Jim Playfair, coach of AHL Abbotsford

Ron Francis, a Hurricanes assistant

Craig MacTavish, former Oilers coach

Scott Stevens, a Devils assistant

and also currant coach Claude Noel

So who do you think will get the Job?

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Sorry i have not posted in a while i have had the flu. So tonight the Blue Jackets comeing off there 8-3 win over the BlackHawks. Here is the projected line up for the Blue Jackets.

Notes

New York has never won at Nationwide area

The Blue Jackets are 7-1-1-2 against the Islanders.

 Injury update: D Jan Hejda (knee), D Rostislav Klesla (hip), RW Jared Boll (hand bruise), out

Garon also is 2-0 lifetime against the Islanders with a 0.43 GAA and .986 save percentage

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The Blue Jackets have signed  prospect left winger Matt Calvert have agreed to terms on a three-year.

Calvert is having a magnificent final season in junior hockey. He has 47 goals, 52 assists and 99 points for the Brandon Wheat Kings of the Western Hockey League.

If he were not signed by June 1, Calvert — a fifth-round pick (No. 127 overall) in 2008 — would have gone back in the pool of available players for the 2010 NHL entry draft.

Last night the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Anaheim Ducks 5-2. This game were over 66 pims were handed out, the Jackets got goals from Derek Dorsett,Jackub Voracek,Fedor Tyutin, Derick Brassard, and Antoine Vermette. The goal scores for the Ducks were Ryan Getzlaf, and Lubomir Visnovsky. This was a very phsyical game were the Jackets did not back down to the Ducks Derek Dorsett scored the first goal of the game and then saw that Matt Beleskey was going after Brassard then stoped from celebration to got fight Matt Beleskey. Then later in the first Period Chris Clark who don’t drop the gloves that often fought Mike Brown. Then at the end the second period Fedor Tyuitn who gets his first Gordie Howe hat trick fought Ryan Getzlaf.

The Jackets who were short handed playing without Rick Nash (lower body) and Kristian Huselius (hand) and also in the first period the Jackets lost  Syracuse call up Derek MacKenzie to a knee injury.

The Jackets also played very well on special teams as they went 3-6 on the power play and killed all seven short handed chances for the Ducks.

Jackets who lost the day before to the L.A Kings 6-0 snaped a 5 game loseing streak.

The Jackets also scored there first power play goal since comeing back from the Olympic break.

Jackets goalie Mathieu Garon played a great game and made two amazeing saves in the first period on  Bobby Ryan and Dan Sexton Garon keep this team in the game makeing 36 saves on 38 shots.

Jackets Prospect Maksim Mayorov who made his season debut last night played a pretty good game he had 7:44 mintues of ice time and proably would of had more but the game was mostly pk and pp.

The Jackets return to action Thursday against Atlanta at Nationwide area at 7pm est

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