In which I write about some thoughts about the season as well as the game tonight.
How long ago the opening game feels. Columbus was entering the season on a high note. The team had closed out an injury riddled season with a 15-1-1 streak. The line of Saad-Johansen-Foligno looked like it could be among the best in the league.
In the final 3:50 of the third period that night it all evaporated and the Blue Jackets have limped on ever since. After 0-8-0, the team has mostly treaded water just below the .500 mark, fans have bickered and argued, Todd Richards was fired, guys have been scratched, lineups have been jumbled with little rhyme or reason in an attempt to find something, anything that could give the team a spark.