The Pierre-Luc Dubois situation has dominated the conversation with the Columbus Blue Jackets through four tough games to start the season. The Blue Jackets will try to set that distraction aside when they host the Tampa Bay Lightning -- the team that knocked them out of the playoffs five months ago -- in Thursday night's home opener, the start of a four-game homestand in the Ohio capital. Dubois, who signed a two-year, $10 million contract on Dec. 31, has said he wants out of Columbus.
For the first time ever, Columbus had won a Stanley Cup Playoffs series. Not only that, the Blue Jackets had done it in stunning fashion, sweeping a Tampa Bay team that had been huge favorites to win the Cup after tying an NHL record with 62 regular-season wins. It was a script that could hardly be believed, from the Blue Jackets overturning a 3-0 deficit in Game 1 to earn a 4-3 win, to a dominating 5-1 victory in Game 2, to a tight 3-1 triumph in Game 3, to finally a 7-3 victory in Game 4 punct...
Tyler Bertuzzi scored 15 seconds into overtime and Bobby Ryan became the first player to score four times in his first three games with Detroit, leading the Red Wings to a 3-2 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday night. Bertuzzi was credited with the winning goal after the puck went off him and into the net following a rebound off Dylan Larkin's shot. I'm just going hard to the net and obviously it went in off my body,'' Bertuzzi said.
No | Player | Pos |
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13 | RW | |
52 | RW | |
28 | RW | |
53 | D | |
15 | D | |
16 | C | |
17 | C | |
18 | C | |
71 | LW | |
19 | C | |
44 | D | |
25 | LW | |
4 | D | |
38 | C | |
3 | D | |
9 | C | |
70 | G | |
46 | D | |
90 | G | |
20 | C | |
14 | LW | |
50 | LW | |
58 | D | |
11 | RW | |
42 | LW | |
8 | D |