The Columbus Blue Jackets held a panel a few weeks ago in Cleveland for fans of their AHL team, the Cleveland Monsters.
The Monsters are coming off a Calder Cup championship season, the first in franchise history. It was the first AHL championship in Cleveland since 1964, and Game 4 of the finals sweep was played in front of a sellout crowd of 19,665, the second-largest crowd in the history of the Calder Cup playoffs. So yeah, the fans got into it.
One of the fans asked Columbus assistant GM Bill Zito, who runs the Monsters for the Blue Jackets, for the one thing Zito did that had the biggest impact on the success of the team.