Former Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender Michael Hutchinson has signed with SaiPa (Saimaan Pallo) of Liiga. SaiPa plays in Lappeenranta, Finland. Current CBJ goalie coach Niklas Bäckström is a SaiPa alum.

After scoring six goals in each of their first four wins, the Blue Jackets have scored a total of nine in the past five games to go 1-3-1 in that stretch. That's an average of 1.8 per game that's 2.3 goals per game lower than they averaged by scoring 33 goals in their first eight games.

Saturday night in Los Angeles, the Blue Jackets were in some ways their own worst enemy. Columbus wasn’t necessarily outplayed by one of the best teams in the Western Conference, but they were beaten by a 5-2 score by the Kings.

The Columbus Blue Jackets are in Seattle tonight to take on the Kraken for the first time this season. The Jackets have lost all four games in this five-game road trip and look to break that streak against the Kraken,

For the Blue Jackets, the three games played in the Golden State to start this road trip out West were much more Hotel California than California Dreamin’. Columbus outshot and outchanced San Jose, Los Angeles and Anaheim in a trio of contests,