Columbus Blue Jackets News

The NHL Trade Deadline is inching closer, and for myself it is one of the most exciting days of the year.

While it seems farfetched, the proposal of this star-for-star trade makes more sense than it initially looked like when I first saw it.

Nhl : Fined Tampa Bay Lightning F Dominic Moore $2,500 for an interference infraction that caused an injury to New York Rangers forward Ruslan Fedotenko on Thursday, Feb.

Four times in their last five games, the Springfield Falcons have surrendered the first goal of the game within the first minute and a half of the hockey game.

Jackets' Mason Serving As Injury Fill-In For Sanford : Steve Mason will start Saturday at Minnesota, according to Shawn Mitchell of The Columbus Dispatch.

Sports reporter Aaron Portzline has covered the Blue Jackets since they arrived in Columbus as an NHL expansion franchise in 2000-01. Follow him on Twitter: @aportzline Sports reporter Shawn Mitchell has joined the Blue Jackets coverage team after spending six years covering the Columbus Crew .

The Dispatch hockey writers talk about the Blue Jackets' rough night against the Stars, the approaching trade deadline and other topics.

Molly Fahey, 7, of Mt. Sterling, wears a pink sport shirt she will model Thursday during a special program sponsored by the Columbus Blue Jackets Foundation.

COLUMBUS, Ohio &#8212 Rookie defenseman David Savard scored his first career goal and added an assist to lift the Blue Jackets past the Minnesota Wild 3-1 on Tuesday night and give Columbus' Todd Richards a win in his first game as coach against his former team.

The Columbus Blue Jackets placed defencemen Brett Lebda and Marc Methot on injured reserve Friday and added defenceman Dalton Prout and goalie Allen York to the roster on emergency recalls.

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The news went from bad to worse last night after the loss to the Stars : Both Marc Methot and Jared Boll are likely done for the season with their injuries, and Methot mentioned this morning on twitter that he'll be having surgery this afternoon.

Springfield is not the same city that it was when I was growing up. Then again, what city is? I remember an ad campaign from at least a quarter century ago referring to Springfield as "the city in the country". Presumably in hopes of limitless convention and tourist revenue.

The Blue Jackets lost 4-2 to the Dallas Stars in front of an announced crowd of 15,943 in Nationwide Arena tonight.

Jamie Benn made a smart play when he located a puck that had hit a Columbus player and fell at Benn's skates.

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman meets with reporters Thursday at Nationwide Arena to discuss the 2013 All-Star Game in Columbus and the Jackets' on-ice problems.

After a visit with the doctor, Jimmy Howard skated Wednesday with Forward Dale Weise also went for a CT scan after being cut blocking a shot against the Preds.

Nail Yakupov is the unquestioned top prospect in the upcoming 2012 NHL amateur draft.

As of February 9th, 2012, the Columbus Blue Jackets have an NHL worst 36 points.

There were many descriptions of the Stars' effort against the Coyotes Tuesday night, and none of them were particularly flattering.