EHM The Blue Line

Not really surprised at this, the team has never made the playoffs and some of their draft picks have not yet performed up to their potential. Combine this with a gm who has no clue on what he's doing and you have a recipe for failure. However, the pieces of the puzzle are very much their (up front at least) and the new gm could just end up pulling a Brian Burke on this one.

Not shocking at all. Maclean had to go. Next GM: Ken Hitchcock...since he was already in that position anyway. (And Hitch may fire himself as coach, and get someone else in...so he could Burke himself)


As you are new...nothing too bad but when reporting news it is always nice to have a link to look at.

They had to do something before columbus becomes the Tampa bay Devil Rays of hockey

That Federov deal was just brutal... and this team has finsihed further out than ever before so yeah he had to go... he was good for hockey in Columbus but unfortunately not good for the hockey team in Columbus

Good move. The Jacks probably have all the ingredients to be a better team, they just can't put it together.

ESPN says that the Jackets won't confirm this yet.

They don't confirm yet, but they'd better get rid of him before the next season, according to the poor results this team had. They should be a far better team IMO.

Now it's confirmed.

YEah...ESPN ... heh. Never trust them. TSN.ca has never reported stuff that has not happened, without seriously marking the article as RUMOUR, SPECULATION, or OPINION. I trust them more than any other sports website there is.

batdad wrote:YEah...ESPN ... heh. Never trust them.

Their NCAA water-polo coverage is probably deeper than for the NHL