The tandem at the top of the Blue Jackets organization is entering their fourth (!!) season together in Columbus. John Davidson was hired as President of Hockey Operations in October 2012 when the league was still mixed up in a lockout. Jarmo Kekalainen was hired as General Manager just a few months later as the season got underway.
The theme over and over again in 2012 and into 2013 was "brick by brick." This was the polite way of telling fans that a rebuild was going to take time to make the team a contender. There was going to be no mortgaging the future for a "win now" mentality.