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Radio: WBNS-AM ; WWCD-FM \ The series The Blue Jackets are 4-6-0 against the Hurricanes , including 2-2-0 in Nationwide Arena.

Blue Jackets defenseman Jan Hejda became a lot more noticeable in his absence. His teammates learned that strange truth over the past three weeks.

Radio: WWCD-FM , WBNS-AM The series The Blue Jackets are 3-4-3 against Washington, including 1-2-1 in the Verizon Center.

Each Wednesday at noon during the NHL season, Dispatch.com and BlueJacketsXtra.com readers can chat online with either Aaron Portzline or Tom Reed, The Dispatch's Blue Jackets beat writers.

Radio: WBNS-AM ; WWCD-FM \ The series The Blue Jackets are 18-13-0-2 against Calgary, including 5-10-0-1 in Pengrowth Saddledome.

A 5-3 victory over the Vancouver Canucks put Calgary back in the win column and snapped a three-game slide.

There were times last season when five little words shouted by Nationwide Arena public address announcer Greg Murray were enough for Blue Jackets assistant coach Claude Noel to ask for help -- and not from the players on the bench: Jackets on the power play! "It was like, God help us," Noel said.

Sitting in his locker-room stall, Blue Jackets winger R.J. Umberger left little to the imagination in describing what he expects tonight against the Calgary Flames .

Radio: WBNS-AM , WWCD-FM The series The Blue Jackets are 10-19-0-3 all-time against the Sharks , including 1-13-0-2 in HP Pavilion.

The Columbus Blue Jackets placed defenseman Mike Commodore on injured reserve, retroactive to September 19, with a groin injury on Saturday.

John Moore, the Jackets' first-round pick in June, was in camp far longer than anybody expected.

R.J. Umberger, who was second on the Blue Jackets in goals scored last season with 26, is expected to be on the third line in Saturday's opener against the Wild.

The Columbus Blue Jackets trimmed their season-opening roster to 23 players on Tuesday with several moves.

Michael Blunden arrived at Blue Jackets training camp this month unsure whether he was going to play on the third or fourth line, or whether he'd line up at center or right wing.

COLUMBUS - The Columbus Blue Jackets have placed forward Fredrik Modin on injured reserve and made several other moves to reduce their roster to 23 players heading into Saturday's opener against Minnesota.

With Fredrik Modin out for the next four to six weeks due to an MCL strain, Nikita Filatov is surely to make the Columbus Blue Jackets, right? Anything is possible with Ken Hitchcock at the helm.

Coach Ken Hitchcock hopes to play the Nashville Predators today with a lineup that bears some resemblance to the forward lines and defensive pairings the Blue Jackets will use in the regular season.

He might have difficulty making Jason Chimera believe that. The Blue Jackets forward said Belanger's blind-side hit on Friday night -- one that left Chimera bloody and concussed -- was dirty and worthy of suspension.

Josh Bailey, Radek Martinek and Matt Moulson scored in the Islanders' 3-1 victory over Edmonton on Sunday.