LastWordArmy
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Most hockey writers don’t know how to write about this season’s Columbus Blue Jacket squad. Perhaps it’s a result of an admittedly dismal 15-year record. Maybe it’s simply an unchecked sense of hockey elitism run rampant. Likely, it’s a bit of both, mixed with hesitance to risk the besmirching of an image of legitimacy that took so long to build in the first place. Whatever the reason, this inability to accurately assess the state of a massively improved Jackets squad is hindering any sense of impartiality at the highest level, and it seems to be clouding the very evaluation of the squad itself. With no caveats, no asterisks, no not-so-subtle jabs at John Tortorella, let’s be perfectly clear: these Jackets are a good hockey team.
http://lastwordonhockey.com/2016/12/13/pundits-beware-blue-jackets-real/
http://lastwordonhockey.com/2016/12/13/pundits-beware-blue-jackets-real/
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