Nikita Filatov News

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Columbus forward Nikita Filatov left the Blue Jackets, choosing to finish the season playing in Russia.

While backup Mathieu Garon has helped the Blue Jackets recover from their worst loss of the season, he hasn't taken over the starting job just yet.

Well, I guess we all received the answer to the question of whether Nikita Filatov was going to log more Time On Ice - TOI.

In a 3-2 win Monday, Blue Jackets right winger Jared Boll turned down two invitations from the Edmonton Oilers' Zach Stortini to fight.

Rick Nash scored on a power play and Kristian Huselius added a short-handed goal in the final seconds of the fight-filled opening period, sending the Columbus Blue Jackets to a 4-1 victory over the Dallas Stars on Thursday night.

Center Derick Brassard had known for weeks that Nikita Filatov was unhappy with his role on the Blue Jackets and wanted to return to Russia.

Nikita Filatov was buried so deep in Columbus that he will reappear on the other side of the planet.

The Columbus Blue Jackets have loaned promising forward Nikita Filatov to CSKA of the Kontinental Hockey League for the remainder of the 2009-10 season.

While the rest of the Blue Jackets practiced on Oct. 19 in Calgary, Blue Jackets defenseman Anton Stralman and his girlfriend, Johanna, were married -- two years earlier than they expected and in a "ceremony" they never could have imagined.

I'm starting to get why Columbus fans are so frustrated with the team's handling of top prospect Nikita Filatov .

The days of assigning nicknames to forward lines have gone the way of wooden sticks, ties and dasher boards without advertising.

The Blue Jackets didn't have much time to enjoy their first-ever playoff appearance last season.

Radio: WBNS-AM , WWCD-FM \ The series The Blue Jackets are 10-20-0-3 all time against San Jose, including 9-6-0-1 in Nationwide Arena.

Forward Derek MacKenzie arrived from minor-league Syracuse on Wednesday with a couple of shirts, a pair of jeans, a sweat suit and no illusions.

Rick Nash scored the Columbus Blue Jackets' third goal in a 2:41 span of the third period to beat Carolina 3-2 Saturday night, the Hurricanes' franchise-record 12th consecutive game without a win.

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

San Jose defenseman Dan Boyle scored the lone goal in a shootout, and Evgeni Nabokov stopped all three Columbus shooters to give the visiting Sharks their sixth straight win, 3-2 over the Blue Jackets on Wednesday night.

That's exactly what the Thrashers have done. Atlanta looks to win its third straight without its leading scorer Thursday night, when it hosts a Columbus Blue Jackets club that's dropped six of eight.

The Capitals' Alex Ovechkin is restrained by a referee during an altercation with the Blue Jackets' Jared Boll, not pictured, during Sunday's game.