Every Team’s Top Breakout Candidate for 2025-26: Metropolitan Division
This is the third edition of my top breakout candidates for each team in 2025–26, with the Atlantic Division covered here and the Central Division covered here. Next up is…
Category Archives: Columbus Blue Jackets
Jet Greaves Deserves to Be the Blue Jackets’ Starting Goaltender
The biggest question mark for the Columbus Blue Jackets heading into the 2025-26 season is goaltending. The question remains: who deserves the main starting spot, Jet Greaves or Elvis Merzlikins?…
NHL’s Top 5 Schedule Release Videos for 2025-26
The 2025-26 NHL season now feels a bit closer since the schedule was announced on July 16. Teams across the league took to social media, posting promotional videos of their…
3 Trade Destinations for Blue Jackets’ Yegor Chinakhov
Another summer, another trade request from a Columbus Blue Jacket. Young Russian forward Yegor Chinakhov has asked for a new home. He’s the man through whom the organization shocked hockey…
How the NHL’s Metropolitan Division Became the Worst
The last time a team from the Metropolitan Division won the Stanley Cup title or even won the Eastern Conference was in 2018. That was when the Washington Capitals had…
Blue Jackets Have Significant Ground to Make Up Against the Devils
As we saw in Part 1 of our 2025 Blue Jackets’ Summer Series, the team has made progress against the Carolina Hurricanes. But as we turn our attention to another…
Blue Jackets Should Try to Extend Adam Fantilli Long-Term
With the recent news surrounding Yegor Chinakhov, Columbus Blue Jackets general manager (GM) Don Waddell has quite a bit on his plate at this point. Once that gets resolved, though,…
NHL Rumours: Chinakhov, Dobson, Carlo, Maple Leafs, McTavish
In today’s NHL rumour rundown, the Columbus Blue Jackets tried to include forward Yegor Chinakhov in a trade to acquire Noah Dobson. Elsewhere, the Toronto Maple Leafs did a lot…
Blue Jackets News & Rumors: Chinakhov, 2025 Schedule & More
The prevailing thought was that it would be a quiet summer within the walls inside Nationwide Arena. But on Thursday, some news broke that awakened the hockey world to a…
3 Returns the Blue Jackets Should Look for in a Yegor Chinakhov Trade
News broke Thursday morning that Yegor Chinakhov has requested a trade from the Columbus Blue Jackets. The request was made public in a post on X (formerly Twitter) by his…