The summer is a very slow and sometimes depressing time for hockey fans. The season is over, as is most of the off-season fun. Now it's just waiting time. I thought there wasn't a better time to ask some beat writers around the league about how the off-season of the team they cover went, as well as the Avs' off-season and their future. The first up is Aaron Portzline.
Aaron (he insisted on me using his first name) is the Columbus Blue Jackets beat writer for The Columbus Dispatch and has covered the Blue Jackets ever since they came into the league.