The NHL trade deadline passed yesterday and Rich Nash remains a Blue Jacket. It is understood that the price General Manager Scott Howson was asking was too high, which is all good and fine.
Then Howson had a press conference and announced that Nash was the one who asked to be traded.
I'm still trying to figure out why he did that. To me, this lowers the asking price for Nash. Twenty nine other teams are now certain that the player is the one who wants out, and what team wants a disgruntled player? A franchise player. A team captain.
How does Nash keep the "C" on his jersey after this?
It's going to be another sad ending to a Blue Jackets season, there are still twenty games to go.
How Howson can be given the keys to reassemble a team that is now shattered is beyond me. He is an architect of failure, what type of ownership would let him have the responsibility again?
I think I know the answer to my own question.
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I can't see any reason for going public with Nash's trade request either. If it was an attempt on Howson's part to stay on the fans' good side, it sounds like it was way too late for that.
Well, unfortunately, not much that happens in Blue Jacket-land makes a whole lot of sense to me!
Last weekend, we took Norah to her first Hockey game with the Gems down here in Dayton. The place was fairly well crowded and they won in a shootout. But what was strange was the fact that the "regulars" were all in awe because the crowd was huge compared to a normal game. Turns out that Groupon worked wonders for the Gems!
Dayton is just not a Hockey-town, unfortunately, despite the history!
They play in the Nutter Center Linc? I went there for an OSU game once, not horrible, but old!
Oh no, the Gems play at Hara Arena. A place older than the dirt on the ground!
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