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Columbus is 1hr34min or 108 miles from Cincinnati, not sure what map you have, but Rand McNally is pissed 😂
Those who have never been to a game at Nationwide will see the high attendance as puzzling. Despite the hordes of away fans, Nationwide has an atmosphere that puts a LOT of better teams to shame. The fact that Jackets fans are selling out the building when we’re historically bad is nothing short of a miracle.
The BJs are certainly the most pathetic franchise in the NHL, and maybe the most pathetic franchise in the major 4 north american professional sports leagues. In their time in the league they have no significant accomplishments, no outstanding franchise players, no major records, few notable draft picks. They have never iced a competitive team, and repeatedly make boneheaded personnel decisions. Players just haven't wanted to be there, and its clear that there is an ownership problem.
Despite this, people keep paying to go to their games, which is a testament to the people of Ohio.
I’m a CBJ season ticket holder… with a hope that one day… ONE DAY…. we will have a good team 😂
As a Bolts fan i will always have a weird relationship with the Blue Jackets lol. On one hand, pure hatred for them ruining our 2019 magical season. But on the other respect because not only did they embarrass us, but that embarrassment forced us to adjust and sparked the back to back cup runs.
You also have to take into account that the Jackets got jobbed in several drafts, and the early years, we had utterly incompetent management
As someone who lives in the area, it kind of boggled my mind that the league chose Columbus. Everyone in the region was split between Detroit and Pittsburg. But I am slightly satisfied that the new generation of hockey fan has taken to them, even though I never will. LGRW.
A few points: Cincinnatti is closer than Cleveland. – Rick Nash left us, Bobrovsky left us, Carter was a cancer, Panarin left. I can sorta understand all of those but that fed in to the "nobody wants to play here". – This year does look better because they are scoring. All they need is a better defense and goaltending. – And I think it all started with the name. That name has been an albatross around our neck. – Man I wish they would win more.
As a Jackets fan and full season ticket holder, I feel qualified to comment.
I'll start by correcting distances. It's about 2 and one-half hour from Columbus to Cleveland. Cleveland is 159 miles away, you can drive 70 miles per hour on the interstate (no one goes slower than 75), so you'll reach Cleveland's outskirts in a little over two hours. Cincinnati is 109 mile away. The distance is about an hour and 45 minutes. From Columbus it's 3 hours to Pittsburgh. 7 hours to St. Louis and Nashville. 5 hours to Buffalo and 3 and one half hours to Detroit. In short, it's easy to follow the Jackets from the location.
For me the worst loss was game 1 against Boston in 2019. The Jackets scored two goals nine seconds apart to take a 2-1 lead in the third period. With about 3 minutes left in regulation, Charlie McAvoy scored off an odd man rush to tie the game. McAvoy scored the game winner a short time later in overtime. Had Bobrovsky been able to make that save on McAvoy's regulation goal and the Jackets hung on to win, Columbus won the next two games, so the Jackets could have been up 3 games to none. McAvoy's goal will always haunt me and leave me to ask "what if?"
As for the current state of the Jackets. one of the bigger problems is sustained time in the defensive zone, seemingly unable to clear it. Many a night at Nationwide Arena I've looked up at the scoreboard and saw the other team had the puck in their offensive zone for anywhere from one minute to a minute and forty-five seconds. The Jackets would look better if they had more sustained time in their offensive. zone. They need to become a better forechecking team, a better backchecking team, they need to be better at getting to loose pucks, better at winning faceoff draws and better at winning puck battles along the half wall. Being on your heels in your offensive zone is much like pass blocking in football. You can only do it for so long before there's going to be a breakdown. The best defense you can play is when the puck is on your stick, because that means the other team doesn't have it, and if they don't have the puck they can't score.
If I could trade for any player in the NHL (one who is realistically available), I'd want Tomas Hertl. He's signed for 7 more years. He's still a point a game player, he's strong in the faceoff circle, and his contract at $8.15 million a year will be a bargain as the salary cap goes up. I would bring him in to mentor Adam Fantilli with the idea Fantilli would be my top line center in one to two years. With Fantilli, Hertl and Cole Sillinger as your centers on your 3 top lines it would give the Jackets something they've never had before- center depth.
Finally, as for the downfall of Jarmo, the beginning of the end was when he missed on his coaching hire when Tortorella left. After a supposed lengthy search, he hired Brad Larsen only to fire him 22 months later. Another problem occurred two years ago. The Jackets were supposed to be in a youth oriented rebuild, but went out and posted an 81 point season the first year of the "rebuild". This caused everyone to think they were further along than they really were. They had that overacheiving season on the strength on performances by Jakub Voracek, Gus Nyquist and Oliver Bjorkstrand. Patrik Laine won 4 games in overtime and posted 55 points in 58 games. This brought in Johhnny Gaudreau. I don't regret signing Gaudreau, but they'd be getting more bang for their buck if they had better line mates in place to enhance Gauderau's game. Gaudreau also wanted to be in Columbus when the narrative was no one wanted to be there, so they had to sign him. In hindsight, they probably should have moved aging veterans like Voracek and Nyquist during their strong season for assets. They could have kept Bjorkstrand, whom they sorely miss, not only for his scoring prowess, but his 200 foot game.
Finally about that Babcock hiring, if you go back and watch the videos from when he was hired, John Davidson gave himself much credit for the hiring after conversations with Ken Hitchcock and Rick Nash, while Jarmo said very little. When Babcock was shown the door, Jarmo was left holding the bag as if he were solely to blame. My prediction: not long after a new GM is found Davidson will be out the door as well as current coach Pascal Vincent.
I have a brother who went to Ohio State and he said that the jackets advertise heavily to students with a discount and cheap tickets so that can explain the decent attendance despite the on ice product
These owners are clueless if they're afraid of losing say 3k fans because another market gets a team within a 4 hour drive. I say they're clueless because if they knew how to actually grow the game & make it more popular it wouldn't be an issue. there's hundreds of thousands of people in America alone who don't know much about hockey but would probably love it if they saw Team USA go to a gold medal game.
Thanks for the reverse jinx Shannon! CBJ fan since day 1.
The owner does not want to rebuild properly. He has 1 or 2 bad years and gets impatient and wants playoffs or heads roll. That’s what happened this past offseason with Babcock, Provorov & Severson. CBJ FO still maintain they aren’t in a rebuild. It’s a directive from ownership.
As soon as I looked at your draft list I saw a huge part of the problem. From day 1 Jarmo never did a rebuild. His first draft he had 3 1st rounders, none of which he acquired. His remaining 10 years he had 8 1st round picks with a consistently bad team. That doesn't cut it.
It's always been Ohio against the world, and it especially feels like that in the NHL conversation. I consistently see people saying that the Blue Jackets need to move because of the results, but Ohioans love our sports and love our sports teams, and attendance this year has been really great for being a near last team. When we start having success it will be incredibly hard to get tickets.
Thank you Shannon for the CBJ video.
With all their draft picks, new GM they're entering a new era of Blue Jacket hockey. Unfortunately they need you to do a Rick Nash carrer video before we can turn the page!!!! Cmon Shannon help us out here!!!
They need to do something about the uniform in my opinion. The main logo is lame. The colour scheme is good, but the layout is bland looking to say the least. A little more red, white, and silver and less dark blue would go a long way in that regard. Go with the Cannon full time already!
0:16 the Blue Jackets have fans?
Columbus is 1 hour and 34 minutes from Cincinnati
The Blue Jackets are, to borrow a quote from Pierre Dorion; they're a team.
I'm in the area, and I've watched them for years, and beyond the Torts era, have done little that's truly memorable beyond some flickers of promise. They can be fun, but aren't consistent enough to be feared. I like Pascal Vincent as a potentially good coach, but the talent is a hodgepodge of question marks as vet signees (I do like Gudbranson) and young guys who aren't ready for the big stage (Emil Bemstrom).
Gaudreau was a bad signing. They definitely need a goalie, so they need to draft and develop a young goalie. You just have to keep drafting as many guys as you can, using your cap space to your advantage like the coyotes. Eventually it’ll turn around, but you need to commit to it.
A little over 2 hours to Cleveland Shannon. 1.5 to 2 depending on time of day, to Cincinnati. 3.5 to 4 to Pittsburgh. But yes this team has always had a great fan base.
When will this franchise MOVE to a better location? …. ANY city in Canada would be better…. Hamilton, Que City, Mississauga….
Also keep in mind, all these bad years, 0 1st overalls won. 2nd only once. They had to trade up for Nash.
18 draft lotteries, only one time top 2. Never 1st
Maybe you could say they're the last old school expansion team. As in, take the dregs and suffer for a decade until you can build it up on your own.
Shoulda kept Babs. I couldn't care less if he was scrolling through every players nudes on their phone; he would have turned this team around. So besides that, what I've noticed imo, is they have a disjointed playstyle or "identity". They're part grindy, part skill, some finesse, a little this, a little that. They need to pick a style and build that style. If this "great player" you have doesn't fit the mold, trade for some1 that slots in. Cohesiveness goes a long way and they don't have it. And yes goaltending is meh at best. I wouldn't say burn it down, but a rebrand next season would be nice; starting w the cannon as their primary uni…… oh and Shannon did u knw you got the distance to cincy and cleveland wrong? I don't think enough ppl posted telling u that. feel u might have missed it.
One thing this team has never had is draft luck. They had to trade up for Nash. When they had the number 1 pick going into a draft. 1 someone jumps them in the Lottery. However to make it even worse. The years they had top draft picks it was a soft year in the draft. Other than Nash(traded for) the best players they have gotten were at the number 3 spot. PLD actually the one year we had draft luck and moved up to 3. And Fantilli which once again we had no luck and actually fell a spot to 3. They have needed that star draft pick player forever. Might be Fantilli however 1 more would be really good.
I think the FULL rebuild never happened, and jarmo spent a lot of time using decent players as cash and not getting a great return, I agree with Shannon we need a big player and stop stacking the team with guys that don't fit here or are collecting a check and moving on