Michael Peca News

His arms folded tightly across his chest, Blue Jackets coach Ken Hitchcock stood behind the bench Tuesday night in Montreal, trying to make sense of another game unraveling before his eyes.

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.

The Toronto Maple Leafs are in last place in the NHL with one win and seven points, and are heading to Carolina for a showdown with the Hurricanes Friday night a ' a team with two wins and seven points.

Michael Peca will be the first one to tell you that he's not sitting by the phone every moment of every day waiting and hoping it will ring.

In their brief and often dubious history, the Blue Jackets have recorded some of the must chilling minuses this side of Barrow, Alaska.

The Blue Jackets held their annual training-camp tryouts for a center. For the first time in recent memory, the winner, Andrew Murray , receives the honor of passing pucks to fourth-line wingers, not perennial All-Star Rick Nash .

Michael Peca, a part of the men's Canadian Olympic hockey team in '02, unveils a coin honouring the gold-medal win.

The Jackets added checking centre Sammy Pahlsson and backup netminder Mathieu Garon in free agency, while allowing Jason Williams , Mike York , Fredrik Norrena , Wade Dubielewicz , Ole-Kristian Tollefsen and Michael Peca to search for greener pastures elsewhere.

Antoine Vermette signed a five-year contract extension. Blue Jackets chat Aaron Portzline, Thursday at noon, dispatch.com/cbjchat Blue Jackets general manager Scott Howson, hired in June 2007, had a quiet first year on the job.

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Great, Yesterday, during the Nashville Predators preview, Kanye West had a second driving urge to interupt.

If you didn't know better, it could have been 1999 again, a morning skate on the day of a Stanley Cup final game.

Several weeks ago, Puck-Rakers asked fans to submit questions to Blue Jackets GM Scott Howson.

The Columbus Blue Jackets made the playoffs last season for the first time in franchise history.

Peca's playoff effort may have garnered him enough praise to receive an offer from Columbus this offseason, but the verdict is still out on whether or not Peca will remain a Blue Jacket in 2009.

Ever since the 2008 NHL entry draft ended, a debate regarding this weekend's draft in Montreal has been in place: Who should be the No.

" Former Syracuse Crunch goaltender and current Columbus Blue Jacket Steve Mason was named this year's winner of the Calder Memorial Trophy at tonight's Annual NHL Awards at the Pearl Concert Theater inside the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Thursday 18 Jun Steve mason, Formerly of the Columbus Blue Jackets, Named NHL Rookie of the Year Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 10:39PM Syracuse, NY Former Syracuse Crunch goaltender and current Columbus Blue Jacket Steve Mason was named this year's winner of the Calder Memorial Trophy at tonight's Annual NHL Awards at the Pearl Concert Theater inside ...