His blog post about the incident has been removed from the Blue Jackets' website.
WSJ: Kings' 3-2 Win Over the Blue Jackets on Feb. 1 Draws Scrutiny
Marian Gaborik landed in Columbus, providing the trade-happy Blue Jackets' playoff push a nudge.
The Blue Jackets added another goalie, by acquiring Patrick Killeen from Pittsburgh for future considerations.
The 22-year-old Delisle was the Blue Jackets' third pick, 107th overall, in the 2008 draft.
The Atlanta Thrashers hit the ice this season, while the Minnesota Wild and Columbus Blue Jackets start next year.
The team is an American Hockey League affiliate of the Columbus Blue Jackets.
The Columbus Blue Jackets even reported that season ticket holders have gone up slightly since the start of the lockout.
The station redoubled its marketing efforts, particularly partnerships with a local music promoter and Columbus' pro hockey team, the Blue Jackets.
He led Hamilton to the second-best record in the AHL then turned down a chance to coach the Columbus Blue Jackets.
The Blue Jackets offered a buy-one-get-one-free deal for their opener Monday against Detroit, a popular draw, and a sellout is expected.
He traded three players and a first-round draft pick to the Columbus Blue Jackets in July to acquire star forward Rick Nash.
"I'm frustrated doubly, " said Matt Wagner, a 31-year-old Blue Jackets season-ticket holder who also blogs about the team at the website JacketsCannon.com.
WSJ: Kings' 3-2 Win Over the Blue Jackets on Feb. 1 Draws Scrutiny
The Blue Jackets led the way with four trades in a bid to continue a late-season push to secure only their second playoff berth.
That was hardly expected when they pulled off a major offseason deal to pry star power forward Rick Nash away from the Columbus Blue Jackets.
They are all farmers, thin and wiry, dressed in ill-fitting blue jackets and caps that are grimy and stained from their work in the fields.
While the Blue Jackets continued their push for the playoffs, the Sabres showed more signs of conceding their chances by looking instead beyond this season.
The Blue Jackets are offering season ticket holders a choice between refunds for cancelled games or a 4% credit toward the purchase of future games.
Nash, the No. 1 overall pick in the NHL draft by the Blue Jackets in 2002, has 13 goals and 30 points in his first 31 games with New York.
The Columbus Blue Jackets, like the NHL office, have plans in place to reduce staff hours to a four-day work week by November 1, unless the lockout ends before then.
Brassard, a pickup from Columbus in the deal that sent Marian Gaborik to the Blue Jackets at the trade deadline, also had five assists in the first five games of the series.
But teams like the Carolina Hurricanes, Phoenix Coyotes, Tampa Bay Lightning, Anaheim Ducks and Columbus Blue Jackets would still have trouble making money unless they went at least two rounds in the playoffs.
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But less than a month left in the regular season, the two standings points the Kings collected by beating the Blue Jackets in regulation that night still loom large over the NHL playoffs.
WSJ: Kings' 3-2 Win Over the Blue Jackets on Feb. 1 Draws Scrutiny
Gaborik was dealt to the Blue Jackets Wednesday, just before the NHL's afternoon trade deadline, for center Derick Brassard, right wing Derek Dorsett, defenseman John Moore and a sixth-round pick in the 2014 draft.
The Rangers received top-line forward Rick Nash from the Blue Jackets in a trade last July that sent Brandon Dubinsky, Artem Anisimov, Tim Erixon and a first-round pick in this year's draft to Columbus.
"We could be talking about a team not making the playoffs and missing out on millions of dollars in playoff gates, " Howson, the Blue Jackets' general manager, wrote on his blog on Feb. 2.
WSJ: Kings' 3-2 Win Over the Blue Jackets on Feb. 1 Draws Scrutiny
Then, with the Rangers on the periphery of the conference's playoff picture in early April and Tortorella bemoaning the team's lack of depth, Sather sent forward Marian Gaborik to the Blue Jackets for three players.
They were so anxious to bring Gaborik to the team, the Blue Jackets sent a private plane to pick him up and fly him to Nashville, where the Blue Jackets are scheduled to play the Predators on Thursday night.
"Throughout this process our focus was to add a player who could provide a boost to our offense, improve our goal scoring and power play, and we identified Marian Gaborik as the player we wanted, " Blue Jackets general manager Jarmo Kekalainen said in a statement.
After compiling the best record in the East and advancing to the conference finals last year, they had acquired superstar forward Rick Nash, presumed to be the final puzzle piece they would need to win their first championship since 1994, from the Columbus Blue Jackets in July.
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