GDT: GAME 20: Stars vs Blue Jackets | 7pm ET

[NotWendell]

Big 80's TV Showdown!
7:00pm ET
Nationwide Arena, Columbus, Ohio (formerly the parking lot across from the Ohio State Penitentiary)
TV: Fox Sports Ohio (formerly SportsChannel Ohio)

vs

CHEERS FOR COLUMBUS: 5-12-2 (3-4-2 at home)
"It's a dog-eat-dog world and I'm wearing Milk Bone underwear."

• Past 10 games: 2-7-1
• Power play: 12.3 percent (28th in NHL)
• Penalty kill: 83.8 percent (10th)
• Injury update: D James Wisniewski (lower body), C Brandon Dubinsky (knee), C Artem Anisimov (head/neck) and D Jack Johnson (shoulder) are out.

DALLAS FOR THE BLOCK: 9-8-2 (5-5-1 on the road)
Hollywood Squares host John Davidson: "How did "quarter-horses" get their name?"
Jim J Bullock: "Costs a quarter to ride 'em."

• Past 10 games: 6-3-1
• Power play: 16.7 percent (18th)*
• Penalty kill: 83.3 percent (11th)*
• Injury update: G Kari Lehtonen (groin) is questionable. LW Ray Whitney (foot), D Aaron Rome (foot) and D Philip Larsen (upper body) are out.
* not including last night’s game

PROBABLE LINES:
Courtesy of The Columbus Dispatch (an EVENING paper in the early '80s!)

THE LAST WORD:
from former Blue Jackets GM Scott Howson
"As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."


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[Fro]

Dallas is like 1-15 in back to backs and playing with a backup goalie??? this has disaster written all over it

 

[Socks]

Wiz out longterm with a broken foot per Twitter (Porty, Rims, Lori Schmidt, etc. On my phone so it's not easy to link). Poor guy has had a tough season.

 

[MFRONE]

Richards must hate Mason. No reason after his last performance that he shouldn't be starting tonight.

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

In keeping with the theme (feel free to name the show/character).

Possible pre-game speech: "Let's do it to them before they do it to us."

New in-arena man advantage announcement: "By the power of Greyskull!"

Unlikely quote during in-game interview: "I love it when a plan comes together."

Natalie's reply: "Thank you very much."

Derek Dorsett after a penalty call: "Did I do that?"

Richards to his team after a timeout: "Make it so."

 

[NotWendell]

Me at the nacho stand: "Do you have any cheeeeeze?"

 

[JacketsDavid]

Richards must hate Mason. No reason after his last performance that he shouldn't be starting tonight.

Oh no, you mean BOB is starting? That means we are going to lose.

 

[MattTheMask]

Continuing with the 80s theme and hockey I present you with this .......

I would also like to propose that every CBJ goal tonight has this posted on here. The Jackets team celebrating ....... Blades of Steel style ......

 

[aRussian]

Not sure how this will go, not expecting much but continued losing. Still, it's what I expected from this roster so I suppose acting all mad about it would be counter productive. Hoping for an entertaining game

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

Not sure how this will go, not expecting much but continued losing. Still, it's what I expected from this roster so I suppose acting all mad about it would be counter productive. Hoping for an entertaining game

*sums up entire board activity for the past week*

 

[CBJ103]

Prediction - Dallas scores first but the goal is waived off due to the ice crew still rolling up the carpet from Leo singing the national anthem.

Bonus prediction - I "catch" a T-shirt after sprinting 6 steps down and across an entire empty row to be the first one to it.

Bonus bonus prediction - The "canary in the coal mine" (D.D.) actually belongs on the second line tonight due to the abject lack of forward talent that the CBJ ice.

 

[Socks]

I just hope to see Bob standing in his crease throwing barrels at oncoming Stars. That is all.

 

[CBJWerenski8]

Bobrovsky drinking game, Whenever he drops his stick take a swig.

 

[SunDin]

Any news on Anisimov? Or still out?

 

[CBJWerenski8]

Any news on Anisimov? Or still out?

Still out. Concussion, light workouts.

 

[Miggus]

Bobrovsky drinking game, Whenever he drops his stick take a swig.

But I have only a six pack of beer in the fridge. Is there a penalty if and when I ran out? I can't go out to buy more because Finnish laws prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages after 9pm

 

[Jorge]

I'm more of a Bob guy myself, but I think Mason should be starting after the game he had in Chicago the other night.

Picked up a 12pk of Pig's Eye to drown my hockey sorrows before, during, and after. Anyone tried it before?

 

[Speedy Sanderson]

I'm having a tough time figuring out how this one plays out.

The Stars are dreadful on the 2nd night of back-to-backs and are starting a goalie who almost never plays, but the Jackets are coming back from a long road trip, are missing four key players, and tend to make any backups look like Roy since they can't score (I think my kid's mini-mite team may have better snipers), so I'll go 3-1 Stars with the lone Jacket goal coming from Calvert. Loudest cheers of the night come during that horrible pizza song where people throw elbows to get a crappy Papa John's pizza box.

 

[Stars99Lobo37]

The Stars are dreadful on the 2nd night of back-to-backs

Dreadful isn't even the word for it.

 

[db2011]

I smell a Jackets win, 4-2

 

[NotWendell]

I smell a Jackets win, 4-2

You sure that's what you're smellin'?

 

[Schenn]

Hello CBJ fans,
I have a trade proposal that I'd like to run by you guys, but can't seem to find a trade/transactions thread. Do you have anywhere where you discuss that sort of thing, or should I make a Proposal thread?

 

[EspenK]

Hello CBJ fans,
I have a trade proposal that I'd like to run by you guys, but can't seem to find a trade/transactions thread. Do you have anywhere where you discuss that sort of thing, or should I make a Proposal thread?

try one of the female members. You never know.

 

[MFRONE]

Michael Ryder is out

 

[Columbus Jack]

Unfortunately I think we take this one. Im hoping for a great game either way.