The understudies recited the lines on Friday night in Buffalo, but the headliners took the stage on Saturday. In a final dress rehearsal for the curtain rising on another NHL season in Columbus, the Blue Jackets dismantled the Nashville Predators, 7 - 1.
The most potent offense in Columbus this Saturday did not belong to the Ohio State Buckeyes, but to the Columbus Blue Jackets, who dismantled former nemesis Nashville 7 - 1 at Nationwide Arena, in a game that represented the final dress rehearsal for the squad before the NHL season begins in earnest on Friday.