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Nashville Predators @ Columbus Blue Jackets: Season 25 3/3/26

Last night was a nailbiter in Madison Square Garden. 61:06 of hockey allowed the Blue Jackets to win 5-4 in a game they led 4-0 with 20 minutes left in the game. They got their much-needed two points, but it was a quick turnaround with no time to celebrate as they flew home to face Nashville tonight. Both teams were coming off a game, with the Nashville Predators losing at home last night to the Detroit Red Wings, 4-2. Each team is trying to fight its way to a playoff spot, so tonight promised to be a good game, and it was!  The first goal tonight was scored by the same Blue Jacket who scored the first goal in New York last night. Adam Fantilli adds goal number seventeen to his season at 14:23. and he's getting hot! The goal gives Kirill Marchenko his twenty-ninth assist this season on the primary, while the secondary goes to Mason Marchment, becoming his sixteenth assist this season. The Blue Jackets nearly escaped the opening period with a 1-0 lead, but Mason Marchment would go t...
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Is There a Team Altering Trade Forming in Columbus? 3/3/2026

I'll start out by saying what I normally do the first week of March every season: Unless under special circumstances, I only allow myself to speculate one week a year, and that is NHL Trade Deadline Week.  I could be wrong, and I only have information avalible to the public. I am not an insider, and I've never claimed to be. That said, something has happened tonight that gives me a gut feeling our General Manager, Don Waddell, could be up to something. What I am about to lay out is either a coincidence or a fact, and only time will tell. Here are my thoughts. Let me make this very clear: I have multiple reasons to love each of our players. So, what I'm about to say comes from a business standpoint only. Kent Johnson had been a healthy scratch for the last two games. He's a young player with decent numbers, which could be an asset to any of the other 31 NHL teams. I firmly believed that he'd be leaving us, and, if he did, I would of course wish him nothing but the be...
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Columbus Blue Jackets @ New York Rangers: Season 25 3/2/26

Welcome to March, 5th Line! Tonight, Zach Werenski would be ruled out citing illness. So, without their best defenseman, the Blue Jackets would go to work on the road. Last season, Adam Fantilli got hot toward the end, including a hat-trick in Madison Square Garden. Tonight, his sixteenth goal of this season would be the first on the board at 5:50! Kirill Marchenko adds his twenty-eighth assist this season on the primary, while Denton Mateychuk adds his fourteenth assist with the secondary. The Blue Jackets would then close out the opening period by doubling up the Rangers at 15:32 after Rangers' Gabe Perreault was sent to the box for unsportsmanlike conduct. Ouch. Kirill Marchenko scored his second Blue Jackets goal tonight, making his twenty-first goal this season a power play goal! Defenseman Ivan Provorov gets his fifteenth assist this season on the primary, while the birthday boy, Charlie Coyle, gets his twenty-ninth assist this season on the secondary. The Blue Jackets domina...
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New York Islanders @ Columbus Blue Jackets: Season 25 2/28/26

 Buckle up, 5th Line, because this first home game after the 2026 Winter Olympic break was a roller-coaster! Period 1 would go in favor of our Blue Jackets, both on the scoreboard and shots on goal. The opening period would conclude with a 1-0 Blue Jackets lead after Isac Lundestrom scored goal number three of his season at 2:30. Dante Fabro comes away with the primary assist, giving him five this season, while Miles Wood adds his sixth assist this season with the secondary. The Blue Jackets would also dominate shots on goal, 11-4. But then Period 2 would happen, and things would get... interesting.  The Blue Jackets would score early in Period 2, just like Period 1, as Mason Marchment popped his fourteenth goal this season into the Islanders' net at 3:58! Charlie Coyle gets his twenty-eighth assist this season with the primary, and Zach Werenski continues to tally up bit numbers with his forty-fourth assist on the secondary. Bonus: With his two goals and ten assists in his la...
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Columbus Blue Jackets @ Boston Bruins: Season 25 2/26/26

Welcome back from the Olympic break, 5th Line! Tonight, during the second commercial break, the Boston Bruins honored their players and ours who played in the 2026 Winter Olympics. It was a nice touch of sportsmanship that I had to include in this blog post.  When the puck dropped for Period 1, we'd see a contest between a current Columbus Blue Jacket goaltender and a former Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender. Elvis Merzlikins would hold our net, while Joonas Korpisalo would hold the home net for the Bruins. Kirill Marchenko would be the first player to get a puck past either of them, giving the Blue Jackets an early 1-0 road lead. The breakaway goal, at 4:32, would advance Kirill Marchenko into a club that only Zach Werenski was part of to this point; twenty goals this season! The primary assist would become Mason Marchment's fourteenth this season, while the secondary assist would bring Adam Fantilli to a twenty-fourth this season. But, after several solid stops, Viktor Arvidss...
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Columbus Blue Jackets' Zach Werenski, Team U.S.A., Win 2026 Men's Hockey Olympic Gold in OT!

The chills that ran through my body at typing the title of this blog post were second to none. After 46 years, our United States Men's Olympic Hockey Team comes home with gold around their neck, and I could not be prouder! This game was all you could have wanted and more. A battle between two countries with deep roots in the game of hockey. The first goal would be scored by the United States' Matt Boldy, his second of the Olympics, at 6:00 into the opening period. Austin Matthews would come away with his fourth assist of the games with the primary, while Quinn Hughes would come away with his seventh of the Olympics with the secondary. But, at the very end of the middle period, 18:16, Cale Makar would add his second goal to his Olympic total, tying this game at 1-1. Devon Toews would get his second assist in the games, and this would be the only assist on Canada's tying goal. In the final period of regulation, Connor Hellebuyck was a force in net for the United States, and J...
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Columbus Blue Jackets @ The 2026 Winter Olympics: 2/20/26

It's Semifinals day for the Men's Olympic Hockey Teams at the 2026 Winter Olympics, and it did not disappoint. Game one early this afternoon featured a close game between Team Canada and Team Finland. The game was all Team Finland as they led 2-0, but Team Canada came all the way back, winning 3-2 with a game-winning goal from Nathan MacKinnon with only about a minute before the game would be forced into overtime. So, Team Canada would await the winner of Team Slovakia at Team U.S.A, and if you were a Team U.S.A and/or Zach Werenski fan, this game did not disappoint either! At 4:19, Zach Werenski would come away with his first assist of the game on the first goal of the game, scored by Dylan Larkin! The Secondary assist would go to Tage Thompson. For those at home keeping track of our Blue Jacket, Zach Werenski, this brings Zach to a 1-2-3 at the Olympics so far. Know this number will increase exponentially as the night goes on! Before this opening period would close, Tage Thom...
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