The Columbus Blue Jackets opened its 2015-16 pre-season on Monday (Sept. 21) night and clearly, the goaltenders were ready to go. The Blue Jackets and Penguins opened in Columbus and played through 60 scoreless minutes before getting their first sample of 3-on-3 overtime and finally an eight-player shootout. Penguins 1 Blue Jackets 0 Joonas Korpisalo backstopped
The Columbus Blue Jackets briefly celebrated its second consecutive win at the annual Traverse City NHL Prospects Tournament Sept. 15 and then headed to the opening of the Jackets’ 2015-16 NHL Training Camp. Players arrived on Sept. 17 at the Ohio Health Ice Haus rink where like all teams, the first day involved physicals and
The Chicago Blackhawks will head into its first NHL pre-season game tonight (Sept. 22) at the United Center in Chicago against the visiting Detroit Red Wings. Before that though the team has made its first couple of roster moves since opening camp on Sept. 18. On Sunday, the Hawks released goaltender Brian Hope, a 21-year-old
The Chicago Blackhawks officially began preparing to defend its 2014-15 Stanley Cup with the opening of its 2015-16 Training Camp at University of Notre Dame at on Friday, Sept. 18. After physicals, players were divided into one of three teams for scrimmaging over the weekend at both the Lefty Smith Rink and Olympic Rink on the UND
With the trade of Patrick Sharp, one of the team’s assistant captains over the off season, the Chicago Blackhawks had an opening and early in the pre-season have awarded the letter to Brent Seabrook. A 30-year-old native of Richmond, BC, Seabrook has played his entire career so far with the Hawks after being selected by
The Columbus Blue Jackets Prospects bounced back from a rough game at the end of round robin play to claim the championship of the annual Traverse City NHL Prospects Tournament for a second straight season. With a 5-2 win the Jackets both claimed the title and denied the host Detroit Red Wings a chance to
