I'm such a sucker for NHL playoff pregame empty barn pics.

My understanding of it is that all contracts run through June 30 and new contracts start July 1.

So, he could be traded up to an including June 30 under his current contract. No movement wouldn't be in place until July 1.

You think me bitching about it on here, with my 196 followers, of which less than 10% of are CBJ fans, really holds any power over that small number of people to change how they already feel?

Man, I'm not nearly delusional enough to think that my shit posts have anywhere near that weight.

And their wallets have far more power still.

None of which came from angry posting on Bluesky. 🤷‍♂️

If someone truly doesn't care about something, no amount of shouting at them that they should care is going to make them care. Especially shouting that they don't even hear.

The only true power that fans have over ownership is their wallet. It's a far quieter but far more effective message.

Man, they wouldn't care if I painted myself Blue Jacket red, white, and blue and jumped off of LeVeque Tower.

Angry posting on Bluesky has --absolutely no effect-- on them. Zero. Zilch.

They might not even know what Bluesky is.

Man, I appreciate how much power you think my voice has over the ownership of the Columbus Blue Jackets, but I can guarantee you that they don't give one damn about what I post on a fringe social media site.

Yeah. I just got finished watching it to. Holy hell. Bring him back next year.

That's the most frustrating thing for me. There have been plenty of times in the history of this franchise the front office/ownership were to blame. This one isn't one of them.

The players absolutely shit the bed.

You are more than welcome to post as many angry messages as you like. I have no interest in doing that.

But I have no idea why you brought this "not to be a dick but I'm going to be a dick" energy my way.

Like, what the hell, man?

I'm beyond pissed that the players shit the bed.

But there are any number of fans venting that same frustration I feel, and me doing the same doesn't add anything to the conversation. So I choose to try to bring a different conversation forward.

My small lack of spending doesn't exert much influence on the ownership or front office, but it exerts more pressure than bitching about it on social media.

I can be infuriated and find something interesting at the same time.

I haven't given the team a dime since their last playoff appearance, and have no intention to until they make it again.

I was there on opening night 25 years ago man. Ive suffered through it, too.

I didn't say it was acceptable. I said it was interesting.

Also interesting how much blame gets put in management and how little gets put on players.

The #CBJ management put together a roster that was good enough. The long streak of success shows that.

Then the players pissed it away. But we blame the management and ownership for not carrying enough.

Expectations are an interesting thing.

#CBJ improved 3 points this season over last, and in both they were not eliminated until between games 81 and 82.

Yet the end of the season feels drastically different.

🎵 Your own 🎶 personal 🎵 Jesus 🎶

League rewards mediocrity in one division and punishes it in another.

Should be 1-16, but league will never do that. They have to spread the playoff teams out geographically to get the TV revenue and then hope that the teams it effects is a smaller market one so no one complains.

#CBJ

But still have more points than every team in the Pacific.

#CBJ

The NHL will go to such absurd extents to justify poor, inconsistent, or incompetent officiating instead of just admitting that they have an officiating problem and taking steps to address it.

#CBJ

NHL officials can now not blow their whistle, but intend to blow their whistle, and that counts as blowing their whistle.

But they can also blow their whistle, but not in a way they usually blow their whistle, and that counts as not blowing their whistle.

Did I get that right?

What a joke.

#CBJ

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Breaking: We’ve updated tonight’s Ichiro Replica Statue giveaway.

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'Forest Detritus, Spring' (2026) -- Merry Meeting Park & Ormsby Preserve, Brunswick, ME

'A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean' -- The Lorax (Dr. Suess)

#Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #ImageAndVerse ✨

#BlackAndWhite #Monochrome
#ClassicMono #ECK #JayceeCrawford

You know, I think I'll take what's behind door #2, Monty...

Hot damn, they listened.

#CBJ

Now go get the other point.

#CBJ

Next goal wins?

#CBJ