Moments in Jackets history - a thread

[Double-Shift Lasse]

Columbus as a market is still new to the NHL in historical perspective, but there have been some moments throughout the team's history that have been memorable, for one reason or another.

Here's a thread to share your CBJ memories, from the sublime to the (more likely) ridiculous. If you can find video evidence or your memory, great, but even if not, let's recall some of our team's history and our memories of it, one-ice and off, success and failures, or just crazy moments that dot our memory of our shared fandom.

With no hockey, let's see if we can talk some hockey.

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[Double-Shift Lasse]

I'll start.

I posted this not long ago actually, after someone referenced Nikita Nikitin. I was at this game and I will never forget this crazy sequence that ended up in the Habs net.

 

[Monk]

Great idea. I'm going to try to only post videos of memorable CBJ things I saw in person. I miss NWA.

I remember being pretty damn hyped for this, my dad sitting next to me:

 

[AndBoomGoesTheCannon]

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

I was at Game 3. I'd be lying if I said I didn't cry a little after Atkinson's empty netter.

 

[Madifer]

Bread hitting the pipe in game 3 in OT vs WSH. I simply "knew" it was the turning point..

Sweeping the cocky, arrogant team from Florida last year. I mean obviously

 

[Cyclones Rock]

That time when they were in a playoff spot by points but didn't get in the playoffs cuz the season ended.

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

That time when they were in a playoff spot by points but didn't get in the playoffs cuz the season ended.

Philosophical question: Would that really constitute not getting in the playoffs?

 

[Monk]

Philosophical question: Would that really constitute not getting in the playoffs?

Does it matter as long as Torts gets fired?

 

[Cyclones Rock]

Philosophical question: Would that really constitute not getting in the playoffs?

Yes. For everyone!

 

[Cyclones Rock]

Does it matter as long as Torts gets fired?

I would think that this likely cancellation of the season is going to save more than a few coaching jobs. Torts not being one of those.

Blackhawks won't change coach, GM, chairman says: report
I would have thought that Colliton and perhaps Bowman were heading toward unemployment had the season not been interrupted.

 

[Derby]

One weird goal I remember was defenceman Milan Jurcina lobbing the puck into the other end while going for a line change. It took an odd bounce off a stanchion and went into the goal. The poor tender had no idea where the puck was, it slipped in right behind his back. Jurcina only played the 09-10 season. I can't remember which team/goalie that was against. He played 17 games for the CBJ. That was his only goal.

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

One weird goal I remember was defenceman Milan Jurcina lobbing the puck into the other end while going for a line change. It took an odd bounce off a stanchion and went into the goal. The poor tender had no idea where the puck was, it slipped in right behind his back. Jurcina only played the 09-10 season. I can't remember which team/goalie that was against. He played 17 games for the CBJ. That was his only goal.

Was against Buffalo and pretty sure Johan Hedberg (nope, Patrick Lalime) was the goalie. Looking for video now.

2:19 the play starts

 

[CBJWerenski8]

Great idea.

 

[CBJWerenski8]

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

Great idea.

These are great for obvious reasons. I was at Game 3 of that Pens series and I will never forget the look on my buddy’s face when Dubi scored. If there was a picture in the dictionary next to the word disbelief, it would be his face. Literally a good 3-5 seconds of waiting this never happens FOR us.’

and I will never forget the volume of sound I made when Nick scored...nor the volume in the arena for both of those.

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

the Zherdev and Nash goals are equally great because Rims says’it doesn’t get any better than this’ after both. Boom, equal.

 

[Speedy Sanderson]

I can't find the video, but Sanderson went coast to coast for a game winner in OT against the B's at home in the first season. Nationwide was going nuts. I spilled a beer all over a woman next to me....she was a good sport about it.

 

[Socks]

I can't find the video, but Sanderson went coast to coast for a game winner in OT against the B's at home in the first season. Nationwide was going nuts. I spilled a beer all over a woman next to me....she was a good sport about it.

THAT WAS YOU?!?!?

Naw I’m just kidding. I knew it was you.

 

[Jovavic]

Zherdev's first goal, that got disallowed because the Preds defenseman he destroyed behind the net ended up falling on it and making it rock slightly, nullifying the goal. He ended up getting his first real one later in the game.

The best one I've seen live is wunderkind Andrej Nedorost breaking down the wing, eluding an Erskine hip check by the wall by faceoff dot, he cuts to middle and beats Turco like a redheaded stepchild.

 

[KCbus]

Great idea. I'm going to try to only post videos of memorable CBJ things I saw in person. I miss NWA.

I remember being pretty damn hyped for this, my dad sitting next to me:

I was there for this one. Filatov was in the middle of that stretch of games where we had to decide to keep him and burn the first year of his contract, or send him back down.

I saw this and jumped up and yelled to no one in particular “hey mom, can we keep him!!??!?!!?”

 

[CBJWerenski8]

Great idea. I'm going to try to only post videos of memorable CBJ things I saw in person. I miss NWA.

I remember being pretty damn hyped for this, my dad sitting next to me:

The best moment of his NHL career, and also what I believe the beginning of his downfall in the NHL.

IIRC (this could be wrong, I was barely a teenager when all this happened) but he was up in the NHL at this point in time because of injuries and he was playing very well for Syracuse. He was doing all the right things, following the coaches advice, and doing his best defensively while showing effort in improving. Then, of course, the hat trick happened. After that I think he had a sort of pride or arrogance that he had arrived as a player. He was #1 on THN top prospects list (ahead of Steven Stamkos, Doughty, and others), impressive production in the AHL on NA ice for the first time consistently as an 18 year old, and now he was starting to bloom at the NHL level. I think he stopped listening to his coaches and stopped being the kid he was when he first arrived. He didn't last long up here before getting sent back to Syracuse as a wake up call (IIRC this same sort of arrogance also occurred with Steve Mason the year after his rookie season, and Hitchcock tried to get Howson to send him down and he refused), but it didn't work. Filatov was too far gone, and even the demotion saw him acting out of character and his production wasn't as good as it was before the hat trick.

Then we all know what happened the next year. He makes the team, has a falling out with Hitch, and goes back to Russia. Unrelated, but the young guys on the team (Brassard, Mason, Russell, Voracek) mutiny on the coach and Hitch is out. The team implodes. The next year Filatov gets a fresh start with Arniel, and doesn't do much better, gets sent to the minors for a while (or rides the bench, I forget which) and traded out of town in that summer.

Was this bound to happen before the hat trick? Yeah, probably. But I think the hat trick inflated that already big ego to the point of no return.

 

[Monk]

The best moment of his NHL career, and also what I believe the beginning of his downfall in the NHL.

IIRC (this could be wrong, I was barely a teenager when all this happened) but he was up in the NHL at this point in time because of injuries and he was playing very well for Syracuse. He was doing all the right things, following the coaches advice, and doing his best defensively while showing effort in improving. Then, of course, the hat trick happened. After that I think he had a sort of pride or arrogance that he had arrived as a player. He was #1 on THN top prospects list (ahead of Steven Stamkos, Doughty, and others), impressive production in the AHL on NA ice for the first time consistently as an 18 year old, and now he was starting to bloom at the NHL level. I think he stopped listening to his coaches and stopped being the kid he was when he first arrived. He didn't last long up here before getting sent back to Syracuse as a wake up call (IIRC this same sort of arrogance also occurred with Steve Mason the year after his rookie season, and Hitchcock tried to get Howson to send him down and he refused), but it didn't work. Filatov was too far gone, and even the demotion saw him acting out of character and his production wasn't as good as it was before the hat trick.

Then we all know what happened the next year. He makes the team, has a falling out with Hitch, and goes back to Russia. Unrelated, but the young guys on the team (Brassard, Mason, Russell, Voracek) mutiny on the coach and Hitch is out. The team implodes. The next year Filatov gets a fresh start with Arniel, and doesn't do much better, gets sent to the minors for a while (or rides the bench, I forget which) and traded out of town in that summer.

Was this bound to happen before the hat trick? Yeah, probably. But I think the hat trick inflated that already big ego to the point of no return.

I pretty much agree. It was inevitable, but that sticks out as a pivotal moment. I'll never forget him trash talking Stamkos' rookie year before he ever played a game in the NHL haha.

 

[KCbus]

Filly don’t do rebounds.

 

[Long Live Lyle]

The best moment of his NHL career, and also what I believe the beginning of his downfall in the NHL.

IIRC (this could be wrong, I was barely a teenager when all this happened) but he was up in the NHL at this point in time because of injuries and he was playing very well for Syracuse. He was doing all the right things, following the coaches advice, and doing his best defensively while showing effort in improving. Then, of course, the hat trick happened. After that I think he had a sort of pride or arrogance that he had arrived as a player. He was #1 on THN top prospects list (ahead of Steven Stamkos, Doughty, and others), impressive production in the AHL on NA ice for the first time consistently as an 18 year old, and now he was starting to bloom at the NHL level. I think he stopped listening to his coaches and stopped being the kid he was when he first arrived. He didn't last long up here before getting sent back to Syracuse as a wake up call (IIRC this same sort of arrogance also occurred with Steve Mason the year after his rookie season, and Hitchcock tried to get Howson to send him down and he refused), but it didn't work. Filatov was too far gone, and even the demotion saw him acting out of character and his production wasn't as good as it was before the hat trick.

Then we all know what happened the next year. He makes the team, has a falling out with Hitch, and goes back to Russia. Unrelated, but the young guys on the team (Brassard, Mason, Russell, Voracek) mutiny on the coach and Hitch is out. The team implodes. The next year Filatov gets a fresh start with Arniel, and doesn't do much better, gets sent to the minors for a while (or rides the bench, I forget which) and traded out of town in that summer.

Was this bound to happen before the hat trick? Yeah, probably. But I think the hat trick inflated that already big ego to the point of no return.

I remember being upset when we drafted Filatov because (perhaps unfairly) I was worried he’d be like Zherdev. I remember being reassured he was different; he spoke English and the scouts did their homework on him. And it started off great.

Turns out he ended up even worse.