No Luck is Better than Bad Luck for the Blue Jackets at NHL Draft Lottery
The Blue Jackets had higher odds to move down than to keep the fourth overall pick, as a result they're winners despite not moving up.
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Blue Jackets to Pick 4th in 2024 NHL Entry Draft
May 7, 2024 by Nicholas Arnold
The ping pong balls have spoken. The lineup for the first half of the 2024 NHL Entry Draft is officially set. For the first time since the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, the draft lottery did not create a change in the order of selection. With the San Jose Sharks winning first and the Chicago Blackhawks winning second in the 2024 NHL Draft Lottery, the Columbus Blue Jackets will be standing pat and picking fourth overall.
Blue Jackets Get Another Chance to Overcome Bad Lottery Luck
May 6, 2024 by Mark Scheig
Will 2024 finally be the year for the Columbus Blue Jackets and success at the NHL Draft Lottery? On Tuesday, we will find out officially where the team will pick at the 2024 NHL Draft. To say the Blue Jackets have had awful luck at the Draft Lottery would be a major understatement. Not once in their history have they won the right to pick first. The only time the Blue Jackets ever held the number-one pick was when they completed a trade in 2002 to acquire that pick. They selected Rick Nash.
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Blue Jackets News & Rumors: GM Search, Monsters & More
May 4, 2024 by Mark Scheig
Welcome to the first Saturday of May 2024. Spring is in full bloom. The NHL Playoffs are about to wrap the first round up. And news around the Columbus Blue Jackets will slowly start to gain speed again. The GM search remains the hot topic around the Blue Jackets. Are we any closer to finding out who the next general manager will be? That’s where we will start this week’s News & Rumors.