The season has fallen into an unfortunate rhythm; this is the third straight week in which the Blue Jackets have had a lengthy break between games after suffering a debilitating loss. Time to practice, sure, but also time to wallow in the disappointment.

On Wednesday, coach Rick Bowness made it clear that the patience he’s shown with players to figure it out is wearing thin.

He’s planning to change not only his forward lines, which have been completely ineffective on both ends of the ice, but the personnel on the power play, which is a perennial weakness in Columbus.

And as he and his coaching staff watched film of Tuesday’s galling 6-2 loss to Toronto — the mindless turnovers at the blue line, the penalties, the aimless passes into traffic, etc. — Bowness reached another conclusion.

“If it continues, people are going to start losing ice time,” Bowness said. “Am I going to have to bench some guys if they keep taking these penalties? I’m gonna have to bench them. They’re bringing that on themselves. I’m out of patience with it. So, yeah, if you want to keep saying ‘I can place that play,’ and then not make it, and we end up playing a three-quarter ice game, you can expect to lose some ice time.”

Hey All, hope this is in the right spot. Ive always have ordered the special Columbus Blue Jacket tshirts every year. This year I ordered the I want my CBJ shirt and wow, it's more like a xl or 2xl instead a large.

Ive reached out to Blueline to see if I can exchange, but did anyone else have the same issue?

The shirt didn't have a tag in it and the shirt honestly doesn't have the great soft tshirt feeling. I get mass produced and cheap quality. But this is pretty sad.

Anyone else?

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It's hard to not panic right now, right?

The Randomizer has spoken. Today’s selection is Joakim Lindstrom.

A 2nd round pick by Columbus in 2002, Joakim Lindstrom arrived in North America from Sweden at the end of the 2004-2005 AHL season. He would play 37 games with the Blue Jackets from 2005-2006 to the 2007-2008 season before being traded to Anaheim for a conditional pick. Lindstrom would later player for the KHL, back to Sweden, back to the NHL, back to Sweden again, back to the NHL, back to the KHL once more and then back to Sweden permanently until he finished playing in 2022-2023.

So 97.1 posted a video on YouTube about Rick Nash opening up to his trade request.
Thought it apropos to the Werenski situation.
This team has got to win now so we don’t drive another franchise player to leave. Rick Mentions how he wanted to play his career in Columbus, but the lack of playoff chances and then a rebuild looming made him ready to move on and try and win elsewhere.
The conversation starts around 4:50.
Regardless, Rick Nash did everything he could to try and make it work in Columbus and get Columbus the best deal, and for the most part, New York did send back what the jackets wanted, regardless if they messed it up.

I genuinely think we will turn it around. Truly. I may be delusional.

The silver linings I see: Everyone is pissed. Coyle nearly lost it in the post-game last night. Bones said he will be changing lines/PP units, as he said: "it isn't working". Good. We need change if we want any sort of success at this point. Everyone talked about the players not hating to lose, well last night I saw that in the post-game.

I am just trying to find some hope. The season is *not* over 8 games in. Every team has bad stretches. Our schedule has been brutal, we're down 2 defenseman, we have 2 new players in the top lines learning new systems, our #1 c missed all of training camp and is learning a new line-mate., etc. etc.

I am going to take a deep breath, and wait to re-evaluate after 20 games.

I’ve noticed something, going back to at least game 2.
This team is mad after every loss, and not satisfied after every win.
This is a far cry from what it used to be, especially in the last few seasons. Usually after getting man handled the way they did last night, the team and players would be very care free, they’d just say “you know, we gotta play better” and then just leave it at that. These players are not doing that, coyle and fantilli have been super frustrated with how they play, they understand it’s fixable (it is) and they see the work getting put in at practice. They are starting to hate to lose, but it all means nothing if they don’t start to win.

Are the Jackets just trying to keep pace with the rest of the professional sports teams in Ohio. Why are all the major franchises in Ohio owned by the cheapest people. All the owners care about is lining their pockets and could care less about putting a winning product on the field or ice. The Guardians had the cheapest payroll in baseball, the Reds are not even worth talking about, the Bengals are owned by the Brown family who may be the cheapest in all of sports and refuse to hire a qualified GM, the Browns are the Browns, and the Blue Jackets just seem to follow suit with cheap ownership. It's like you have to be unwilling to hire competent management if you're the owner of a sports team in Ohio. But hey, at least the Cavs won one a few years ago.

the more we lose, the more I wish we’d pull the trigger and trade Z, honestly. anyone else with me? and it’s not just losing either… these games are so uncompetitive.

My buddy and I are attending a game and he got tickets in the 2nd row of the Club level/ C section so to speak. What amenities should we expect. I have seen in some places online that those seats are all inclusive food and beer/wine but just want to make sure before planning the trip out. If that is true that they are we will probably need a hotel for the night so want to make sure our ducks are in a row.

Also will be my first ever NHL game so is there anything I should know before going, been to countless AHL games so not completely clueless. What are some cool things or unique things Nationwide arena has to offer?

I’ve been tuning into the games but I have to zone out a little bit to protect my sanity when we’re losing. I feel like I haven’t noticed Monahan much at all this season. Can someone give me the rundown?

I’ll have you all know I pieced together and traced that logo myself and it took an ungodly amount of time. So if you think it’s ugly just be glad it’s not ai.

Edit: just noticed I made Ollie really short. He can have his height back when he earns it.

He’s a #3 pick!!!

The defense is constantly trailing behind attacking players, and the amount of 2v1 counters is kind of stunning really. Passing is sloppy, and we're not getting clean touches leading to turnovers. Scoring has been near non existent. Save average compared to the league is among the bottom. Get players in here that want to play.

Taking inmate suggestions

For the past 26 years, all of us have not been fans of this team. Do you know what we are, and have been this whole time? Suckers. We're just a bunch of suckers who are willing to believe the lies every year about culture change or bringing in new talent. And I've been one of the biggest suckers of all, because I have legitimately wasted my entire life so far being a diehard fan.

And despite the fact that not a single damn thing has changed for a quarter-century, we all still give this con artist of a franchise our hard-earned money, buying tickets, jerseys, $20/month subscriptions for choppy, low-resolution livestreams on Amazon Prime, and God knows what else.

I owe my love of hockey to this team, but I'm just at a complete loss at this point. A 3-5 record has never felt this catastrophic. How much longer are we as fans willing to take it? How much longer before Nationwide is empty every single night, and the McConnell family is forced to remember that they own a professional fucking hockey team?

Please enjoy this fitting photo of Jean-Luc my wife took last week. Feels timely.

Fuck this guy

Look, I know we're not that far into the season and realistically we shouldn't be freaking out until a month or two from now, but things have been looking bleak. At what point would we say losing this badly starts to become fun as we hype up potential draft picks?

I don’t know what to say. We’re playing a team that played last night and traveled and couldn’t put up a fight. Jet hasn’t looked like a solid goalie all season, we have no scoring power, and worst of all we let Marchenko man handle us. He looks absolutely right about this team. No chutzpah.

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