The Blue Jackets' playoff hopes are toast, but there are still five reasons to watch the rest of the season
They’re mired at the bottom of the Metropolitan Division standings and near the bottom of the NHL's overall standings. They’re still slammed with injuries. Their playoff aspirations,Not so fast. There's a lot of season left, organizational “resets”Columbus Blue Jackets and the Connor Bedard sweepstakesFive of the top six prospectsare centers who could become NHL stars or superstars in the case of Connor Bedard and Adam Fantilli.
Either would look great skating with Gaudreau and Patrik Laine, but that will be determined by lottery balls, luck and the Blue Jackets’ finish in the overall standings.seemed like a message to Blue Jackets management straight from the “hockey gods,” to call it a season, but this team has a history of winning just enough to damage its lottery odds.
The strong lean here is to “Be Bad for Bedard” or “Play Silly for Fantilli,” but that's not how the Blue Jackets roll and there’s a lot of runway left for this scrappy team to hurt their odds again. Stay tuned.Assuming the Blue Jackets don’t pull off a miraculous climb into the Eastern Conference playoff picture, general manager Jarmo Kekalainen’s phone might buzz nonstop leading up to the Mar. 3 trade deadline.
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