The Blue Jackets’ franchise record 13-game point streak that closed out the regular season wasn’t enough to push them over the threshold and into the playoffs, but it was certainly a strong enough showing to once again have fans and management alike excited for the coming season.
“As disappointed as I am sitting here now and having this presser two months earlier than I’d like to, I’m proud of the guys and the way they handled themselves as professionals at the end of the year,” GM Jarmo Kekalainen said Monday. “They could have just mailed it in when we knew we weren’t going to be in the playoffs for a while at the end.