Mar 30, 2021COLUMBUS, Ohio — Horns blared and shouts erupted in Egypt over the weekend when the enormous cargo ship, the MV Ever Given, was finally dislodged from its slaunchwise wedge in the Suez Canal.A similar rescue mission continues in Columbus, however. Forward , a towering player of massive importance to the , is stuck in one of the worst slumps of his young NHL career.Laine has truly gone sideways, with just 1-3-4 and a minus-10 rating over his last 16 games. It is true that the Blue Jackets have no playmaking centers who can bring life to Laine’s game — there’s a tugboat joke to be...…Mar 30, 2021COLUMBUS, Ohio — Horns blared and shouts erupted in Egypt over the weekend when the enormous cargo ship, the MV Ever Given, was finally dislodged from its slaunchwise wedge in the Suez Canal.A similar rescue mission continues in Columbus, however. Forward , a towering player of massive importance to the , is stuck in one of the worst slumps of his young NHL career.Laine has truly gone sideways, with just 1-3-4 and a minus-10 rating over his last 16 games. It is true that the Blue Jackets have no playmaking centers who can bring life to Laine’s game — there’s a tugboat joke to be...WW…

Press 'Enter' to see all resultsMost Recent StoriesAuthorsEastCentralNorthWestAFC EastAFC NorthAFC SouthAFC WestNFC EastNFC NorthNFC SouthNFC WestAtlanticCentralSoutheastSouthwestNorthwestPacificAL EastAL CentralAL WestNL EastNL CentralNL WestFeatured Teams Featured TeamsLeaguesMLS Featured  CompetitionsFeatured Teams Blue Jackets’ Patrik Laine benched because he ‘verbally disrespected’ a coachCOLUMBUS, Ohio — Blue Jackets star forward Patrik Laine was benched during Monday’s win over Carolina because he “verbally disrespected” a member of the coaching staff, a...…Press 'Enter' to see all resultsMost Recent StoriesAuthorsEastCentralNorthWestAFC EastAFC NorthAFC SouthAFC WestNFC EastNFC NorthNFC SouthNFC WestAtlanticCentralSoutheastSouthwestNorthwestPacificAL EastAL CentralAL WestNL EastNL CentralNL WestFeatured Teams Featured TeamsLeaguesMLS Featured  CompetitionsFeatured Teams Blue Jackets’ Patrik Laine benched because he ‘verbally disrespected’ a coachCOLUMBUS, Ohio — Blue Jackets star forward Patrik Laine was benched during Monday’s win over Carolina because he “verbally disrespected” a member of the coaching staff, a...WW…

Press 'Enter' to see all resultsMost Recent StoriesAuthorsEastCentralNorthWestAFC EastAFC NorthAFC SouthAFC WestNFC EastNFC NorthNFC SouthNFC WestAtlanticCentralSoutheastSouthwestNorthwestPacificAL EastAL CentralAL WestNL EastNL CentralNL WestFeatured Teams Featured TeamsLeaguesMLS Featured  CompetitionsFeatured Teams Miscommunication explained: How chaos led to botched call against Blue JacketsCOLUMBUS, Ohio — The NHL said human error — specifically the actions of an over-exuberant off-ice official-in-training within Nationwide Arena — led to a controversial goal...…Press 'Enter' to see all resultsMost Recent StoriesAuthorsEastCentralNorthWestAFC EastAFC NorthAFC SouthAFC WestNFC EastNFC NorthNFC SouthNFC WestAtlanticCentralSoutheastSouthwestNorthwestPacificAL EastAL CentralAL WestNL EastNL CentralNL WestFeatured Teams Featured TeamsLeaguesMLS Featured  CompetitionsFeatured Teams Miscommunication explained: How chaos led to botched call against Blue JacketsCOLUMBUS, Ohio — The NHL said human error — specifically the actions of an over-exuberant off-ice official-in-training within Nationwide Arena — led to a controversial goal...WW…

Press 'Enter' to see all resultsMost Recent StoriesAuthorsAtlanticMetropolitanCentralPacificAFC EastAFC NorthAFC SouthAFC WestNFC EastNFC NorthNFC SouthNFC WestAtlanticCentralSoutheastSouthwestNorthwestPacificAL EastAL CentralAL WestNL EastNL CentralNL WestFeatured Teams Featured TeamsLeaguesMLS Featured  CompetitionsFeatured Teams Pierre-Luc Dubois signs new deal with Blue Jackets, but desire for trade remainsCOLUMBUS, Ohio — The Blue Jackets finally reached contract terms with center Pierre-Luc Dubois on Thursday, signing one of the NHL’s budding stars and the...…Press 'Enter' to see all resultsMost Recent StoriesAuthorsAtlanticMetropolitanCentralPacificAFC EastAFC NorthAFC SouthAFC WestNFC EastNFC NorthNFC SouthNFC WestAtlanticCentralSoutheastSouthwestNorthwestPacificAL EastAL CentralAL WestNL EastNL CentralNL WestFeatured Teams Featured TeamsLeaguesMLS Featured  CompetitionsFeatured Teams Pierre-Luc Dubois signs new deal with Blue Jackets, but desire for trade remainsCOLUMBUS, Ohio — The Blue Jackets finally reached contract terms with center Pierre-Luc Dubois on Thursday, signing one of the NHL’s budding stars and the...WW…

Oct 27, 2020Joni Meyer-Crothers considered writing a letter and sending it to all 31 teams in the weeks leading up to this year’s Draft. Meyers-Crothers, a foster mother to 57 kids over the last seven years, wanted the league’s general managers and scouting directors to know what Mitchell Miller, a highly rated defenseman, had done to her adopted son, Isaiah.In 2016, Miller and another eighth-grader were convicted in an Ohio juvenile court of bullying and abusing Isaiah, a Black, developmentally disabled classmate at a junior high school in Sylvania, Ohio, just outside Toledo.The incident,...…Oct 27, 2020Joni Meyer-Crothers considered writing a letter and sending it to all 31 teams in the weeks leading up to this year’s Draft. Meyers-Crothers, a foster mother to 57 kids over the last seven years, wanted the league’s general managers and scouting directors to know what Mitchell Miller, a highly rated defenseman, had done to her adopted son, Isaiah.In 2016, Miller and another eighth-grader were convicted in an Ohio juvenile court of bullying and abusing Isaiah, a Black, developmentally disabled classmate at a junior high school in Sylvania, Ohio, just outside Toledo.The incident,...WW…

Oct 7, 2020COLUMBUS, Ohio — Well, that didn’t take long.One day after , the have signed their new second-line center to a two-year contract that will pay him $4.6 million in 2020-21 and $6.0 million in 2021-22. The contract carries a $5.3 million annual cap hit.Domi, 25, would have been a restricted free agent on Friday. As it stands, he can hit unrestricted free agency after the 2021-22 season.Typically, teams like to “buy” at least one season of a prominent player’s UFA years — meaning a contract length of three years minimum for Domi — but Columbus GM Jarmo Kekäläinen said the...…Oct 7, 2020COLUMBUS, Ohio — Well, that didn’t take long.One day after , the have signed their new second-line center to a two-year contract that will pay him $4.6 million in 2020-21 and $6.0 million in 2021-22. The contract carries a $5.3 million annual cap hit.Domi, 25, would have been a restricted free agent on Friday. As it stands, he can hit unrestricted free agency after the 2021-22 season.Typically, teams like to “buy” at least one season of a prominent player’s UFA years — meaning a contract length of three years minimum for Domi — but Columbus GM Jarmo Kekäläinen said the...WW…

Jun 25, 2020Editor’s note: This story contains graphic and extremely disturbing details about hazing, bullying, harassment and sexual assault.If anyone has any questions regarding the class action lawsuit against the that was filed today, you can reach out to my lawyer James Sayce— Daniel Carcillo (@CarBombBoom13)…Jun 25, 2020Editor’s note: This story contains graphic and extremely disturbing details about hazing, bullying, harassment and sexual assault.If anyone has any questions regarding the class action lawsuit against the that was filed today, you can reach out to my lawyer James Sayce— Daniel Carcillo (@CarBombBoom13)WW…