Sergei Bobrovsky’s 2018-19 campaign, unfair as it may be, stands out for what happened before and after the regular season. In training camp, he said he wouldn’t negotiate a contract during the season and started speaking in past tense about his time in Columbus. In the playoffs, he exorcised his postseason demons by engineering one of the most stunning upsets in hockey history and helping the Columbus Blue Jackets to their best season ever.
In between? Sixty-two games of not-quite-vintage-Bob-but-still-better-than-most goaltending, all with the drama and rumors of an unhappy fan favorite playing his probable last season in Columbus.