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On October 7th 2000, the Blue Jackets played their first regular season game and lost 5-3 to the Chicago Blackhawks. The franchise’s first goal was scored by Bruce Gardiner. The demand for Columbus Blue Jackets tickets did not suffer even though the Blue Jackets finished with a 28-39-9-6 record for 71 points, causing them to be last in the Central Division and therefore fail to qualify for the playoffs.
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About The Columbus Blue Jackets
The first player in the team’s history to score a total of 30 goals was Geoff Sanderson, and excellent goaltending was supplied by Ron Tugnutt, who was signed in the summer of 2000. With 22 wins, they tied with the 74 year old NHL record for wins by an expansion team goalie. The original record-setter was Lorne Chabot of the New York Rangers in the 1926-27 season. This has made hockey enthusiasts more interested in the Columbus Blue Jackets tickets.
The team finished second to last in the NHL in the following season, earning only 57 points. Ray Whitney, who previously played for the Florida Panthers, led the Blue Jackets to a franchise record of 61 points in the last season. This, of course, contributed to an increase in ticket sales.
A very unfortunate tragedy struck the team’s organisation in 2002 when Brittanie Cecil, a thirteen year old, was killed by an errant shot from Espen Knutsen. It hit her in the head while she was in the stands at the Nationwide Arena in March. To prevent future accidents of this nature, arenas installed large nylon mesh nets behind the goals. The Columbus Blue Jackets also wore small red hearts with the girl‘s initials, “BNC”, on their helmets as a tribute to the young girl.
The demand for Columbus Blue Jackets tickets increased during the 2002-2003 season because fans expected so much from this team, but the team put up a 7-5-1-1 record after the first 14 games. They finished last in the Central Division for the third time in a row and missed the playoffs again.
Ticket-holding fans were again disappointed during the 2003-04 season, despite key additions in the off-season. September 14th 2004 marked the start of the lockout of the 2004-05 season. No games were played, and the prestigious Stanley Cup was not awarded for the first time since the 1919 flu epidemic.
In 2006, under their new head coach Ken Hitchcock, the Blue Jackets scored a team-record of 5 power-play goals in a 6-2 win over the Ottawa Senators, putting smiles on the faces of Columbus Blue Jackets ticket holding fans. In 2007, the team broke the record for most times being shut out in a season (sixteen), and lost to the Detroit Red Wings with 3-0.
The Blue Jackets’ first full season under head coach Hitchcock started off pretty well. The team got off to their very best start in franchise history with a 4-0 shutout of the defending Stanley Cup champions, the Anaheim Ducks.
The Columbus Blue Jackets’ ticket holding fans were very happy to know that the team finally secured their first position in the Stanley Cup Playoffs in the franchise’s nine year history. On April 8th, 2009 they defeated the Chicago Blackhawks with a 4-3 shootout. Columbus Blue Jackets tickets will definitely on every fan’s list.
