Before the 2000 NHL season, both the Minnesota Wild and Columbus Blue Jackets participated in an expansion draft to select their rosters. Both teams were given a pool of players to choose from ...

The Columbus Blue Jackets have been a franchise in the NHL for the last 25 years. In 2000, they formed, and on May 11, 2000, they made their first trade in history. The Columbus Blue Jackets ...

Advertisement Also let go were two employees who have been with the Blue Jackets since they arrived as an NHL expansion team in 2000: equipment manager Jamie Healy and video coach Dan Singleton.

Because the first season of the Blue Jackets was in 2000-01, this quarter-century team ... history came in 2018-19 when they swept the NHL’s top team the Tampa Bay Lightning in the first round ...