Blue Jackets lose with .4 left

• Raw Dawgin' it

  

  gorocks99;1073163 wrote:Yeah...probably right. I think a lot of people look at his performance in international tournaments and assume he's a much better player than he's let on in the NHL, mainly because he's playing with a bunch of minor leaguers. So that clouds judgement. But on face, his numbers probably don't call for a #1 G and a first rounder.

  He's head and shoulders above any other player on the team, so if you can stop him that's all that matters. If he's on a team where he's not the sole focus, i think he'd put up almost 100 points.
• gorocks99

  

  100 points might be a stretch, but I could definitely see 80-90 over the next 6-7 years playing on a legit team (career high to this point is 79). Probably his best year ever he could get above 90.
• Raw Dawgin' it

  

  gorocks99;1073168 wrote:100 points might be a stretch, but I could definitely see 80-90 over the next 6-7 years playing on a legit team (career high to this point is 79). Probably his best year ever he could get above 90.

  which is ALMOST 100.... but yeah if he had proper players around him i think he'd be a motivated beast.
• End of Line

  

  Commander of Awesome;1073114 wrote:A.O. would be nice.

  No. He's been declining for the past 2 seasons and makes 9.5mil+ until 2021 and the CBJ will have to add a lot to get him.
• End of Line

  

  If Nash was to go to Boston, Rask would have to come back along with a shit ton of salary.
• Raw Dawgin' it

  

  The_Crosby_Show;1073369 wrote:If Nash was to go to Boston, Rask would have to come back along with a shit ton of salary.

  i'd be fine with the deal. not sure if there is any rumor or talk of nash moving, but i'd definitely be down for a deal that got him to boston.
• sportchampps

  The crazy thing is attendance it up like 18 percent this year. Mason has been the worst goalie stats wise for the last three years and yet we continue to play him consistently. For the cbj to win they need a good young goalie and players that want to be here with an experienced coach. Right now their 0 for 3. Oops forgot about a gm with half a brain so were 0 for 4.
  
  The sad thing is management thinks this is the right roster killed by injuries so your going to get this product again next year and they will use the all stat game to sell season tickets and keep attendance respectful.
• Commander of Awesome

  

  Mason's play is really dissappointing. After a great rookie year, he's flat out sucked.
• sleeper

  

  I'm not familiar with the NHL, but if CBJ finish with the worst record do they get the #1 pick? I feel like the CBJ have been terrible for so long that they should have been stockpiling young talent from top 5 draft picks.
• Azubuike24

  

  Attendance is higher because they didn't raise prices (how could they) and have given away far more tickets this year than I can remember.
  
  I work for the company the Arena is named after. Although we've been season ticket holders since day one, a few times already this year they have given away upwards of 5,000 tickets a game to employees who present just a company email. Each person can get 4 tickets, including usually 1,000-2,000 lower bowl tickets.
  
  Attendance figures might be up, but some of these games, in-terms of actual people there, have been franchise-lows.
• Azubuike24

  

  sleeper;1073465 wrote:I'm not familiar with the NHL, but if CBJ finish with the worst record do they get the #1 pick? I feel like the CBJ have been terrible for so long that they should have been stockpiling young talent from top 5 draft picks.

  There is a lottery in the NHL. The Jackets never do well in it.
• Raw Dawgin' it

  

  Azubuike24;1073467 wrote:There is a lottery in the NHL. The Jackets never do well in it.

  lottery is only for the 3 worst teams.
• End of Line

  

  Raw Dawgin' it;1073401 wrote:i'd be fine with the deal. not sure if there is any rumor or talk of nash moving, but i'd definitely be down for a deal that got him to boston.

  
  Rumor going around that the Red Wings are interested in Bringing in Nash along with the Maple Leafs. Also, is Rask a RFA? I would expect Marchand or someone like that would be coming back as well.
  

  Raw Dawgin' it;1073476 wrote:lottery is only for the 3 worst teams.

  Not always true. The 14 teams who don't make the playoffs all have a possibility at the #1 pick. The worse you are the higher chance you have to pick first. New Jersey last year was the 8th worst team in the league and ended up picking 4th. Chicago in the 06-07 season was the 5th worst team but ended up getting the #1 pick.
• gorocks99

  

  sleeper;1073465 wrote:I'm not familiar with the NHL, but if CBJ finish with the worst record do they get the #1 pick? I feel like the CBJ have been terrible for so long that they should have been stockpiling young talent from top 5 draft picks.

  Here's a (sordid) history of their first round picks:
  
  2011: No pick - traded to Philadelphia for Jeff Carter.
  2010: Ryan Johansen (4th overall) - good potential, first year with the "big club" this year, but just 17 points in 43 games.
  2009: John Moore (21st overall) - 5 points, -8 rating in 40 games this year.
  2008: Nikita Filatov (6th overall) - traded to Ottawa. 14 points in 53 games over a three-year career.
  2007: Jakub Voracek (7th overall) - traded to Philadelphia in Jeff Carter deal.
  2006: Derick Brassard (6th overall) - career-high 47 points last season, just 17 in 43 games this season.
  2005: Gilbert Brule (6th overall) - in Phoenix now, played two full seasons w/ the Jackets registering just 32 points in 146 games.
  2004: Alexandre Picard (8th overall) - in Tampa Bay I think. 67 NHL games, 2 NHL points since joining the league.
  2003: Nikolai Zherdev (4th overall) - traded to Rangers and then Philadelphia, put in a few very good seasons in Columbus (best a 61-point campaign in 2007-2008)
  2002: Rick Nash (1st overall) - Franchise leader in darn near every offensive category
  2001: Pascal Leclaire (8th overall) - traded to Ottawa. Now a backup, and not really an effective one at that.
  2000: Rostislav Klesla (4th overall) - traded to Phoenix. Solid blueliner, enjoying some success in the desert but lots of health concerns.
• gorocks99

  

  The_Crosby_Show;1073520 wrote:Rumor going around that the Red Wings are interested in Bringing in Nash along with the Maple Leafs. Also, is Rask a RFA? I would expect Marchand or someone like that would be coming back as well.
  
  
  
  Not always true. The 14 teams who don't make the playoffs all have a possibility at the #1 pick. The worse you are the higher chance you have to pick first. New Jersey last year was the 8th worst team in the league and ended up picking 4th. Chicago in the 06-07 season was the 5th worst team but ended up getting the #1 pick.

  Only teams 26 through 30 can get the first pick. Winning the lottery doesn't mean you get the first pick, it just means you improve your draft position by up to four positions (hence NJ bumping from 8th to 4th, Chicago from 5th to 1st).
  

  At the conclusion of the regular season, the 14 NHL teams not qualifying for the playoffs are entered in a weighted lottery to determine the initial draft picks in the first round, seeded according to regular season standing. The 30th-place team has a 25% chance of winning the lottery, with odds diminishing to a 0.5% chance for the 17th-place team. A single selection from the lottery pool is made, with the winning team improving its draft position by up to four places, and no team dropping more than one place. Therefore, only the 26th through 30th place teams are eligible to receive the first overall draft pick

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHL_Entry_Draft#Selection_order_and_Draft_lottery
  
  The Blue Jackets, despite having finished out of the playoffs in all but one year of their existence, have never won the draft lottery. Six out of 15 years the worst team has retained the #1 pick, six out of 15 years a team in the bottom five (but not the worst team) has grabbed the #1 pick. The other three years (1995, 1999, 2011) teams outside the bottom five have won and moved up four spots.
• Classyposter58

  

  Azubuike24;1073466 wrote:Attendance is higher because they didn't raise prices (how could they) and have given away far more tickets this year than I can remember.
  
  I work for the company the Arena is named after. Although we've been season ticket holders since day one, a few times already this year they have given away upwards of 5,000 tickets a game to employees who present just a company email. Each person can get 4 tickets, including usually 1,000-2,000 lower bowl tickets.
  
  Attendance figures might be up, but some of these games, in-terms of actual people there, have been franchise-lows.

  You wanna get my tickets for when the Wings come to town :thumbup:
  
  And Nash needs to leave that place. Columbus is so inept it's unreal. Really they're gonna regret not drafting Sean Couturier IMO
• Classyposter58

  

  gorocks99;1073521 wrote:Here's a (sordid) history of their first round picks:
  
  2011: No pick - traded to Philadelphia for Jeff Carter.
  2010: Ryan Johansen (4th overall) - good potential, first year with the "big club" this year, but just 17 points in 43 games.
  2009: John Moore (21st overall) - 5 points, -8 rating in 40 games this year.
  2008: Nikita Filatov (6th overall) - traded to Ottawa. 14 points in 53 games over a three-year career.
  2007: Jakub Voracek (7th overall) - traded to Philadelphia in Jeff Carter deal.
  2006: Derick Brassard (6th overall) - career-high 47 points last season, just 17 in 43 games this season.
  2005: Gilbert Brule (6th overall) - in Phoenix now, played two full seasons w/ the Jackets registering just 32 points in 146 games.
  2004: Alexandre Picard (8th overall) - in Tampa Bay I think. 67 NHL games, 2 NHL points since joining the league.
  2003: Nikolai Zherdev (4th overall) - traded to Rangers and then Philadelphia, put in a few very good seasons in Columbus (best a 61-point campaign in 2007-2008)
  2002: Rick Nash (1st overall) - Franchise leader in darn near every offensive category
  2001: Pascal Leclaire (8th overall) - traded to Ottawa. Now a backup, and not really an effective one at that.
  2000: Rostislav Klesla (4th overall) - traded to Phoenix. Solid blueliner, enjoying some success in the desert but lots of health concerns.

  Brule has incredible skill he just never really developed. At the end of the day it's not 1st round draft picks, it's what you get deeper in the draft that build teams.
  
  Just look at Detroit: Datsyuk(6th) Franzen(3rd) Flippula(3rd) Zetterberg(7th) Hudler (2nd) Lidstrom(3rd) Howard (2nd)
  
  Right there on currently the best team in the NHL and out of they're top 6 scorers and all-star goalie NONE we're drafted in the 1st round. Or you could be like Edmonton who has hit a homerun the last few years with their 1st round picks and will basically unstoppable in 5 years. Eberle, Hall, Nugent-Hopkins and Gagner are just beast
• gorocks99

  

  Right, you can build in developing late-rounders (Detroit) or you can build with first rounders (Pittsburgh, Edmonton). The Jackets have done neither.
• Tiernan

  The way radio call-ins were bitching last night you would have thought this loss had play-off implications or something. Was it odd? yes. Was it probably a clock malfunction? yes. Does it matter one Fk'n iota? Not in the least. STFU.
• Raw Dawgin' it

  

  Last
  
  
  ...or at least we can only hope
• TedSheckler

  

  Tiernan;1074164 wrote:The way radio call-ins were bitching last night you would have thought this loss had play-off implications or something. Was it odd? yes. Was it probably a clock malfunction? yes. Does it matter one Fk'n iota? Not in the least. STFU.

  It wasn't a clock malfunction. Clocks don't do that, contrary to what Dean Lombardi would have you believe. I'm pretty sure the timekeeper screwed up.
  
  And it's not about what this mistake means to the CBJ. It means nothing to the CBJ about losing a point or two. They are last and this wouldn't have changed that. It does however, mean something to the Kings and the rest of the Western Conference. Last year, the 4th-8th seeds were separated by 2 points. LA, getting a free point could mean the difference between someone getting screwed out of the playoffs or someone getting screwed out of home ice advantage. If LA makes it into the playoffs by one point, I would be pissed if I was a fan of the 9th place team. But I'm sure you already knew all that.
• se-alum

  

  Azubuike24;1073466 wrote:Attendance is higher because they didn't raise prices (how could they) and have given away far more tickets this year than I can remember.
  
  I work for the company the Arena is named after. Although we've been season ticket holders since day one, a few times already this year they have given away upwards of 5,000 tickets a game to employees who present just a company email. Each person can get 4 tickets, including usually 1,000-2,000 lower bowl tickets.
  
  Attendance figures might be up, but some of these games, in-terms of actual people there, have been franchise-lows.

  Yea, I've paid a total of $50 for the 6 games I've attended, and our seats are always lower bowl.
• Tiernan

  Raw Dawgin' it;1074172 wrote:Last
  
  
  ...or at least we can only hope

  this
• TedSheckler

  

  Your silence is deafening.